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I like Kunena it's got all the necessary features, it's easy to use and install, as good as any fully commercial product, it's just a bit tough to work on the layout.

I've researched a lot of Joomla Forums and tested a few of the non-commercial (one or two corrupted my test bed), and this has to be one of the best.
It worked straight away following installation (under Joomla 2.5) and I found it easy to configure.
When I wanted some help with the resizing of image thumbnails, I posted a query on the Kunena Forum and got a rapid answer which worked first time.
Great Job, great extension - highly recommended.

Once you get it set up -- which is not very difficult -- Kunena just runs.

That might sound simple, but I've been through quite a few others that needed constant attention to keep running correctly. This is an excellent extension that lets you focus on the posts, not the software.

Kunena is easily the best forum system for Joomla! I can't wait for them to begin supporting 3.0 websites. :)

Kunena is my favorite forum for joomla! It has all the features that you need. Is easy to install and work like a charm.

Recommended to all!

Kunena forum is generally not bad, but if you have a high-traffic site, it can quickly be a security problem.

You can keep control only with third party extensions (the best is not especialy made for kunena).

Despite getting the newest version. Nevertheless, thanks to the developer.

Easy to install and cofigure in less than the commercial 5 minutes :))
PS. I havent got forum on any site till now so this Kunena looks and feels great :)

Kunena is really a great forum extension. I use it since years without any problems.

Great job!

This is one of not the best in forums. The hardest thing was, setting the colours of the forum to match our site, and it was just a case of modifying the css to suit. If you know how to use social media sites, then this is easy as well. Also like the anti-spam area as well!

The one thing I always loved about this when it was called Fireboard was how it used all kinds of other third party extentions to make an awesome inter-connected forum solution that expanded as you needed it to. You could do anything. Wanted to have signatures? No problem! A PM solution? Uddem-IM connects with it nicely! Profiles? Plenty of profile modules to use! You could even use different editors since Fireboard honored the editor used in Joomla.

Now days, it is still a nice forum solution. But it seems to be drifting from the original idea of a forum community built by many extensions. Some extensions still work great with Kunena, but others... saddly no.

The one that hits me and my site members hardest is the editor. Kunena has decided that it would be better to not only develop their own BBCode editor, but to force that to be the only editor that you can use in Kunena. No more can you simply choose to use the editor you use in Joomla.

This not only causes a jarring seperation from article making and the like, but also brings in a terrible complexity that my members do not appreciate. My members are not the kind that benifit from BBCode. They have had a hard time with that and miss the office like WYSIWYG style editor they are so used to. Because of them, I have had to look elsewhere, which is a shame because overal I still really like Kunena and the way it is designed.

If someone could make a plugin or something to bring back choice of editor to Kunena, it would be great! I can't do it because I can't code. I don't expect the Kunena developers to do it, they have enough to do maintaining Kunena.

I have used Kunena Forums on several of my websites in the past and have nothing but excellent reviews for it... it is an amazing tool. That said, I am a little disappointed that there is not yet an available version that will work with Joomla 3. Is there a projected timeline for that development happening? When can we expect to see a Joomla 3 compatible version of this most excellent forum tool?

I always use this forum in all my websites. very versatile and easy to use

I love it but now i have joomla 3 and it is not a version for joomla 3. i can not wait for a new version of kunena to joomla 3

All you need is love, and Kunena!
This Forum has a lots of features and is easy to moderate.

If you need something like a simple support forum or just a basic way to allow users to post, kunena does the job.

If you're looking for a great community with lots of interaction with plenty of features to lure users back, kunena could be the worst forum ever for this.

Kunena is only a forum, therefore it completely relies on 3rd party addons to get things you would generally expect from a forum.

Relies on 3rd party pms. 3rd party pms has a different editor and different templating.

Profile page is completely not social and requires a 3rd party addon. Again, different templating.

No wysiwyg editor. Attachments still get uploaded one at a time.

Kunena is free and updated frequently but as far as forums go it could possibly be the worst forum available.

Very professional forum which is, in opinion, much easier to install and configure than phpBB!

Had a basic forum up and running within 20 minutes, and that included installing a fresh copy of Joomla!

Thank you for such a great extension!

Installation was easy but when I looked at default forum, all the icons were not aligned and words like views and replies are not in the box but over flow to next box. Post question on their forum but no answers.

All right. I hope that the development of the Forum will continue to improve. Long life to the project. Thank you to the developers!

I tried it and consider it one of the best forums that are integrated into Joomla, still has a long way to reach the height of phpBB, but I see that the new version is on track.
It only remains to add a feature that allows users to assign multiple ranges.

In this world full of amateur junk, it's a pleasure to find a product that is so professional and so free of bugs. And the fact that it's free is just an unexpected bonus! Really, this deserves a huge thumbs-up.