You can not beat JFusion for forum integration into Joomla. JFusion has an unlimited amount of features, many different forum softwares are supported, very easy install, excellent performance, AJAX usersync, user conflict resolution, supports converted boards, etc. Check out the details in my signature and watch our installation video tutorial to see how easy it is.
JFusion has 12 different programmer contribute to the code and has an extremely active development team. Joomla search integration, discussion bot and much are coming in the next 1.1.2 release of JFusion.
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