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Do you like to use premium software for creating forums or do you use free software? What are your reasons for using premium software or free software?
After using free software for forums for many years, I moved to premium software, I have been using premium software for almost a year and I find it better to use premium software instead free software because premium software comes with a lot of features.

It really doesn't matter to me, and I have enough skills to make free work quite well. For instance, my phpBB forum has a few drawbacks like no resizer avatar uploader and one click updater, but it's not enough to drag things down that much.

Note: Those drawbacks are highly unfixable at the moment. There are no extensions or extensions in development that either exist or work well enough.