I had used another highly popular forum extension since starting with Joomla! about 8 months ago. Support for the other extension was first rate and the forum worked well overall. But, in the last few months support for the other product seemed to be going downhill along with other issues.



I was not that familiar with Kunena but I felt the need to switch forum products so I downloaded and starting using Kunena. I had always heard that support at Kunena was not that great, but my experience has been otherwise. Support has been available in very reasonable time frames and they seem genuinely interested in helping users of Kunena when they run into issues.



Switching to Kunena turned out to be a good move. Even though Kunena was not my first choice, end the end, it turned out to be the best choice. The developers seem sincerely interested in upgrading their product to meet the needs of the Joomla! community. They also are committed to keeping their product freely available to the community at no cost and I'm not sure that this can be said of other forum developers.



MH

Simple + powerful = perfect.

1.6 beta version is even better than 1.5 stable.

Simply unmatched.

1. Kunena is realy free. There is no bug code and "pay for comesial version".

2. Kunena has a geat support, even that it is free.

3. Kunena has all the tools, needed for a woking forum.

4. Kunena works fine, whit no problems at all.

5. Kunena is easy to install

6. I will stop here, but there is uncountable excellent comments about Kunena.

7. Download it, install it, and you will not regret for it!

I've been using Kunena for almost a year now and quite pleased with how well it works. I tried all of the other free forum and for one reason or the other promptly uninstalled them. I did like one of the other forum extensions that is marked popular in JED eventually passed on it. Kunena is quick to get up and running and it shows that someone put some actual thought into layout the backend configuration and settings. At first I didn't like the layout of the forum but after a couple of days it grew on me and now I find it more pleasing than most of the other forums.



The Kunena forum is really good and helpful. I was able to find answers to each of the question I had regarding configuration and setup. I haven't needed to post on their forum but viewing several topics it looks like they are fairly quick in responding to questions. The "other" forum I liked didn't support search engine friendly URLs, but Kunena does. It also integrates with Joomla really well.



I'm quite happy with the whole setup of Kunena and will be installing and using it on future sites.

Great extension!!! Easy to install/configure!!! works great!!!

Amazing! The best one I have installed so far, Works in just seconds, and runs super fast!



Thanks!!

I have been using Kunena for over a year now, great component and the support crew of Kunena really put an effort into providing great support.



Remember to donate, they do it voluntarily.



Best regards Mikkel.

Review:



Before I try Kunena, I installed some others free forum components. I admit that Kunena is the best far from the others. Great layout, looks like the forums we are all used to and not just like a sloppy layout. Easy to use just install and everything works out of the box. I could even find my language (Greek) in some forums with (almost) everything translated.



Conclusion:

If you look for a free forum component do not look any further. This is the right for you. It is very well developed.



Suggestions:

I highly support all the free extensions but I would like to have the option to remove the "With the support of Kunena". After all if someone sees the layout he would definitely know it is Kunena made.

I liked everything about this forum .. but after spending 2 days and trying ( almost all flv players ) I could not make it work on the forum posts .. if the developer can add this feature ( especially to allow allvideo plugin to work ) then it will be # 1 forum

I love the Kunena forum software. I wanted to make some adjustments and the members and team from Kunena really answered my questions quickly and good!!!