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Sankalp A.
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What do you like best about MyBB?

The different tools and features are beneficial, and there are helpful plugins for making and adding features to the form, which are very easy and convenient to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MyBB?

There is a bit difficulty in understand the sequence of the user flow and who things need to be arranged and access, the blog community is unable to provide accurate help Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MyBB solving and how is that benefiting you?

In our organisation, we require a bulletin board that is easy and helpful to use and should provide with an enhanced plugin to reach out to communities across the internet, so My BB solved this problem Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Broadcom
Year Founded
1991
HQ Location
San Jose, CA
Twitter
@broadcom
59,531 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
61,034 employees on LinkedIn®
Ownership
NASDAQ: CA
Phone
+1 800 225-5224
Total Revenue (USD mm)
$27,500,000,000
Description

Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) is a global technology leader that designs, develops, and supplies a broad range of semiconductor, enterprise software and security solutions. Broadcom's category-leading product portfolio serves critical markets including cloud, data center, networking, broadband, wireless, storage, industrial, and enterprise software. Our solutions include service provider and enterprise networking and storage, mobile device and broadband connectivity, mainframe, cybersecurity, and private and hybrid cloud infrastructure. Broadcom is a Delaware corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. For more information, go to www.broadcom.com.

Recent MyBB Reviews

Judah M.
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Judah M.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"FREE forum and community management software"
It's open source, and we can make our modifications and use it as best as we see fit based on the feedback from engagements with our community.
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Mouni C.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"MyBB"
It is a open source.It supports MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite and is very user friendly. One more benefit is it is free of cost. Release year was 20...
Sankalp A.
SA
Sankalp A.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Detailing of Services"
The different tools and features are beneficial, and there are helpful plugins for making and adding features to the form, which are very easy and ...
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Judah M.
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What do you like best about MyBB?

It's open source, and we can make our modifications and use it as best as we see fit based on the feedback from engagements with our community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MyBB?

Quite large and not very easy to start playing around with, but once you get familiar with it, it gets very more manageable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MyBB solving and how is that benefiting you?

Managing engagements with the communities and handling feedback and responses, user profiles and many other features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bharath P.
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What do you like best about MyBB?

It is a open source.It supports MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite and is very user friendly. One more benefit is it is free of cost. Release year was 2002. Full form of MyBB is formerly and originally MyBulletinBoard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MyBB?

There are no dislikes. Everything is good. I liked it very much, and I have been using it for around seven to eight years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MyBB solving and how is that benefiting you?

By using MyBB, We can develop web applications wither using PHP and the back end can use MYSQL. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yash K.
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What do you like best about MyBB?

The best part: Open Source, which adds to the trust in the software. The community is beneficial & engaging. UI/UX is clean and content management is really easy without the irritating long unnecessary steps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MyBB?

Due to too many plugin integrations, the load time increases exponentially. Available plugins are pretty limited for a new user like me. I have faced the interface lags due to low maintenance (probably). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MyBB solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helped our admin control & oversee groups, create a forum for all the stakeholders, shared required documents & news and also to maintain a database of all the stakeholders in real-time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vaibhav S.
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What do you like best about MyBB?

The installation is pretty straight-forward so it's easy to set up. I've used myBB for setting up a basic forum for one of my client's project and it was pretty easy to integreate. It's also fast and comes with clean UI/UX. Content management can be done easily so it doesn't let you do anything extra for the simple things. Another plus point is that it's open-source so it's trustworthy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MyBB?

Security remains an issue since it's not heavily maintained now. Too many plugin integrations can make the forum load slow, and it's something that needs to be improved. Otherwise, everything's great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MyBB solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sometimes when I need a simple forum to integrate into a website, I use myBB. The software comes with enough features and gives you a lot of independence in terms of customization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kumar P.
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What do you like best about MyBB?

What I like best about MyBB is that it is open source and still better than some of the closed source CMS applications available. Its community is simply amazing and very engaging and helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MyBB?

The responsiveness of the product is something that , I have faced issues with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MyBB solving and how is that benefiting you?

It has helped us in creating an entirely new forum and has generated very good engagement for the community. The shared web hosting provided by MyBB is really helpful along with the free stable forum script that it provides. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about MyBB?

easy to use with many templates and APIs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MyBB?

the limitation was Fonts limitation there are not much support regarding that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MyBB solving and how is that benefiting you?

the extra plugins helping to create more pages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about MyBB?

MyBB offers a decent level of gamification and communication plugins, generally for free for better user engagement. With this, it is much easier to create user reputations and interactions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MyBB?

Although it is open source, the marketplace available plugins which are ready to use are very very few. Though. if you know plugin development, you can easily integrate your own things into it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MyBB solving and how is that benefiting you?

MyBB, comes with an elaborate and feature-full control panel. With this panel, the admins can easily view, moderate and manage various groups, statistics, user profiles, online activities and posts on the forum. It even lets admins control and oversee groups. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

keerti m.
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What do you like best about MyBB?

MyBB offers many features:

1. If offers multi language support more than 30 language.

2. Hundreds of plugin and theme.

3. It is easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MyBB?

I don't see any main disadvantages so far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MyBB solving and how is that benefiting you?

MyBB is open source platforms. So it easy to use . With the help of MyBB ymwe can create our own forum. And its community helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shubham p.
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What do you like best about MyBB?

The thing I like about MyBB is

1) It's free open-source software.

2) It has a great community engagement.

3) Easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MyBB?

The default theme of MyBB is not responsive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering MyBB:

Yes, I will definitely recommend MyBB because of its good engagement, and it's a free software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MyBB solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps in creating a new forum and the engagement in myBB is very good.

benefits that I have realized is

1) it provides a free and stable forum script.

2) Shared web hosting is provided by MyBB. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.