Kunena is good, no doubt. And it's the best option for a fully integrated forum in Joomla (forget the totally worthless Agora!). But no WYSIWYG editor is a BIG BIG drawback. Like someone else said, in 2012, there is absolutely no reason why anyone should deal with tags when using a forum. This should be so standard it's not even funny. Members having to figure out tags is not acceptable.



C'mon Kunena, step up your game. A WYSIWYG should have been integrated a long time ago. Until this is standard, Kunena gets only an average vote from me. Kunena is old and should be much more advanced that what it is. It still has a general antiquated feel, for some reason. Not nearly as advanced as some of the stand alones, like SMF.



I have to add too that the support, mainly from three or four different staff members, is rude, abrupt and condescending. Support gets zero starts, while the software itself is average.

The work for this second release of Kunena is simply amazing! This component has EVERYTHING that a forum needs.It's fast! Clear! Easy to install or easy to upgrade, even for newbies (like me). And it's FREE!

Congratulations guys for your work!

With a whole lot of beautifully implemented features Kunena could be an excellent forum extension for Joomla, but...



in my opinion it stays just an average product because of an unacceptable weakness: lack of WYISWIG editor for rich text.



I can't find any excuse why in 2012 a forum user, who could be grandma, should deal with tags (bbcode or whatever) to get bold text or pictures in their posts.

The team have really done a terrific job on Kunena 2.0, which is a major re-engineer that improves performance, usability and structure of Kunena, looking forward to a long product life. Thanks very much guys.

After migrating from another forum extenstion, Kunena is indeed everything it promises to be and the support from the forum is excellent. Kudos to the Kunena Team!

Thanks for this great Component..keep it up for good work..

As a fairly new joomla user (less than 3 months) I found this extension to be extremely easy to install and set up. This is the first time I have ever set up a forum and it was done in less than a day.

I am using Joomla 1.7 and beez5 template and it worked perfectly first time.

easy to install, configure and interface with my joomla 2.5 site. within 2 hours i had it working exactly how i wanted on a closed site for members only access and its great. i needed a simple, joomla specific forum for a martial arts site amd this was just heaven, compared to phpbb and bridges.



well worth a download and does everything i need. happy chappy and without spending a bean. who can complain really?

I don't know why you don't have an option to turn on/off the spam protection feature. My forum got about 30-40 spams each day and all registered user can post anything without any content filter or Captcha. The ReCaptcha works with guest only.

My English might be not good.



I generally avoid writing reviews. But this is the extension which made me to do this. I'm not a new kunena user. I have used some old versions of kunena and not much attracted on the extension. So, I looked for a better one this time similar to PHPBB. Unfortunately i was reverted to the same extension since i cannot get the better. But while using the new version of this extension,I found lot of improvements that the developer has made. My client was really happy with this forum style...



Really an excellent work!