I had been looking for a good forum solution for tiepedia.com and I had tried Agora, CCBoard, and ninja board but Kunena is the one for me. Kunena did everything I needed, it has a great backend and awesome community. I highly recommend Kunena.

Kunena is powerful. It doesn't have a lot of glitches. It has a high-quality Ukrainian translation. It doesn't disfigure users avatars. It generates RSS. It works perfectly with Community Builder.



It is a great alternative for vBulletin, phpBB or even IPB, of course, if you have several additional Joomla! components installed.



KUNENA & CCBOARD RULE!

I've tried several forums, native for Joomla, including previous versions of Kunena. My first experience with Kunena was not very positive, as search did not work for Cyrillic languages.



With big reluctance I install other forum instead of Kunena. In one month of "fighting" with this "another" forum I returned back to Kunena and was very glad to find out that new updated version fully support Cyrillic, has new SEO features and exactly meet my needs!!!



So, I stick with Kunena and would support development of it to the extend possible. Thanks to all developers of this excellent forum !!!

Nice and easy. I am using this component fro Joomlaboard version, than Firebord and now Kunena. It should be more skins for this forum, so that beginners can choose appropriated look of theirs forums. Anything is great. It is free, stable and integrates with Joomla with no problem.

i don´t write a lot of reviews. in this case i have to. kunena is simply perfect. no more, no less!



there is a highly engaged community of users, supporters and developers which makes this extension one of the best you can get and for sure by far the best forum component for joomla on the web. forget about all others!



have read many of the comments and i have to say some aren´t true. f.e. there area tons of templates for kunena. i personally use a dark template by yootheme for my joomla and so i needed a dark theme for kunena too. it tooks me about 5 minutes to go to the kunena forum and find a bunch of templates. i now use a very elegant template by kenlapz and it´s absolutely great. installation was as easy as it could be.



kunena itself runs stable. installations and upgrading is a breeze. i never had any problems with kunena. i experienced some smaller bugs but the developing of kunena is very very good and fixes are avaiable in no time. also they have a great wiki which provides a lot of information for modifying and customizing your kunena.



i tried out sevral other soulutions and i have to say this is by far the most professional forum solution on the market you can get.



with some addons and modules it even beats vBulletin, SMF and phpbb.



i really dont´know why those peepz give away this fine peace of work for free. this product would deserve it to be paid. however, there are only 5 stars to rate. this one deserves it really. the first time i gave this rating.

This forum intergrates very nicely into a joomla site. Very easy to install and setup but lacks templates. There is an option to use your joomla css but it looked awful on my site so I'm stuck with the basic template. Not a big deal really but would prefer a very dark look to match the site.

I'd still highly recommend this forum though.

Thanks Kunena nice 1

I see there's a php timeout problem. Although altering php is easy with some hosts, it's not with others. I've found that timeouts with tar.bz2 or tar.gzip files can often be solved simply by using a zip file, since you have one stage of unpacking instead of two. It just goes faster. I suggest a zip file be offered as an alternative download.

If only phpbb is very well integrated on joomla i wouldnt bother using kunena which is halfway from phpbb, anyway since its the most stable forum component for joomla i'll use it, but with my 7 months experience with them i have never got a support reply later than 1 week its always 1 week above even for a simple question "how to remove the forum title" they couldnt answer geez whatta support but i admire them for creating such extension, kudos since its free i wont complaint much just the support cause whether its free or not support support should be available to help.



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Installed well, works well and looks good.

I found the back-end side intuitive and well designed. Integrates well with Joomla and has all the features that I require.

A quality product.

This is the best forum system. No doubt.



I only hope that the customization to be more simple, like color pickers, positions settings and icon choosers right on the backend.