What's the point of doing reviews for freeforums? If your going to host a forums, do it yourself.
There are plenty of free-hosts out there that allow you to host forums.
Every experience I've had with freeforums has been terrible. Hosting and using.
What I'm saying is, if your going to host forums, what's he point of using freeforums?
Eventually, if it gets big enough, you'll have to move to your own server, and the majority of freeforums won't let you make (free or not) database backups, so everyone will have to register again, and you'll lose all the posts.
That, along with the inabilty to upload new plugins, themes, and such, and a limited ACP.
So yeah, he can review them, but take it from someone who has used them (both managed and was member of): They aren't good. If you really want to host a forums, get a host.
I didnt review any free forum sites, and I don't plan on doing it either. Free forums are a complete waste, if you really want to make a site you can get off your ass and get hosting.
All of the ones listed are forum systems that you install on your own host. On that note, I may add a few new reviews soon when I get time, no promises though.
I do know this - xenforo dropped the ball by not keeping the vbulletin reputation comments as a feature. The loss of the Reputation comments data when we switched to Xenforo really was the death knell for the site when it came to all the users that left. I know I missed it so much and I got way less interested in the site when that feature was gone and I run the site.
I'm on a page about incorrect corrections, and spent the better part of like two hours trying to get someone to understand that -5^2 = -25, not 25, and then that post had comments get reposted because that group is self sustaining, and that person was in turn trying to explain what I just explained to them. And I'm taking that as a victory