drupal forums

Forum Module D8 Do we really need a new module, Forum-Access, to do what permissions should do for FORUM. If I wanted to stop anonymous unauthenticated users from seeing forum posts shouldn't I be able to easily turn that off for anonymous users via permissions or contrariwise, default inability to see until the role 'anonymous user' has been given the permission. I cannot find a Forum Module to see where to point this discussion so I thought it might be a good topic here.... Also put it in chat...

I'm currently working on Harmony Forum which is a native Drupal forum built with two entities (Thread and Post) with Taxonomy for categories should you want them.

That's the shortest possible description which outlines an entity based forum, a bit more in depth would be leveraging contrib as much as possible to produce something like Discourse (http://try.discourse.org). All whilst coding so that Views are used and can be overridden, display elements can be changed with Field UI and that there are plenty of hooks and chances to jump in and do what you need to.

Hi Folks,
I am developing D7 multisite using Domain Access module. I am able to import all user from their current site (which is not in Drupal) using Uif and uif_plus module. Now i want to migrate their current forum i.e. JForum into Drupal forum. How i can do this? if any one did this before if yes than please tell me the possible solution ? i don't want to lost any post or data or comments.

Thanks in advance.

For whatever reason, a self contained D6 forum module was never allowed to be included in the official modules but I've worked with this module quite a bit and I believe it is SERIOUSLY worth looking at, even if for just a basis or starting point or maybe even, if nothing else, a proof of concept. It can be found here: http://www.richardpeacock.com/blog/2010/10/rp-forum-drupal-6-module

It has most (if not all) the features all the "big" forums have such as:

Features (included without additional modules!)

Ability to ban users based on IP and IP ranges

Below are the slides from last night's presentation to the Waterloo Region user's group on Drupal Forums, using The Webmaster Forums as a case study. Audio possibly to come soon if we can clean it up adequately.

For more information, we have two articles on our switch to Drupal Forums here:

Goodbye vBulletin, Part One: Reasons to Switch
Goodbye vBulletin, Part Two: How We Got Away

Hello,
A client of mine has a PHP-only site, and has relationships with a Drupal based site.
Now, they asked me to "semi integrate" the Drupal-based site's forums with their PHP site.

While I believe showing the discussions can be done using some XML feed from Drupal, they also asked me to enable creation of new content in the forums from their PHP site.

The first idea popped in my mind was to use Services, but now it seems that Services does not come with forum support "out of the box".

Is this a good direction ?
Is there any existing module that do what I want ?

Thanks,

What are the pros and cons for using Drupal Advanced forum or phpBB?
demo of Drupal Advanced forum is here: http://shellsn.com/forum
this demo used Blue Lagoon Stacked styling
how to style your advanced forum is here: http://drupal.org/node/234042

For a good example of using phpBB with Drupal 6, see here:
http://www.teenrc.ca/phpbbforum
you can download phpbb skins from the internet
Drupal has module for phpbb. drupal.org forums has a drupal 6 version

I like the style of phpbb for the posts with the author pane on the right hand side.