Comment Re:bbPress (Score 1) 259
I put bbPress on my site a while back. It doesn't have all of the features of some other boards, but it is free and pretty easy to customize. I was able to integrate the logins of my site, my blog, and my boards without too much hassle.
I second this, especially the integrated login which is quite nice. Additionally, bbPress is very easy to customize the appearance, if you're willing to get your hands a little dirty in the process. As an example: Asylum Walls, a forum I rebuilt for a friend, just to illustrate that you can change every tiny graphical detail. That forum was previously a plain, ugly black-on-white "theme" (to use the term loosely). The limits, as with anything that is heavily customizable, are your imagination and time.
Yeah, that forum could've been made even better, but the "time" constraint caught up to me. It's just one example.