When comparing PeerBoard vs ElkArte, the Slant community recommends ElkArte for most people. In the question“What are the best web forum software packages?” ElkArte is ranked 5th while PeerBoard is ranked 14th. The most important reason people chose ElkArte is:
Elkarte has BadBehaviour and other measures included into the core to protect your forum from spammers.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Excellent WordPress plugin
You can build a community on top of your WordPress blog.
Pro It was a successful and enjoyable experience
Pro Effortless usage of features
Pro Very simple installation process
Pro Ideal for building brand loyalty & grow business
Pro Embeddable community & forum software
Pro Modern, quick, nice UX
Pro WordPress Plugin
This a nice plugin easy to customize and saves time.
Pro Improved Anti Spam measures
Elkarte has BadBehaviour and other measures included into the core to protect your forum from spammers.
Pro Notification centre
ElkArte has a notification center where you can see mentions, likes, quoted messages and other alerts, all included into the core of the software.
Pro Responsive design
ElkArte comes out of the box with two responsive styles.
Pro Easy to install
Pro Open Source
It is completely free to use and is licensed with an open source BSD-3 clause license.
Pro Integrated video embedding
Integrated video embedding for YouTube, Vimeo, and DailyMotion.
Cons
Con SaaS product - you can't host it on your own server
Con Good WordPress Plugin but should be more popular to people
Con Limited themes and extensions
And community is fairly small as it is derived from SMF Forums.