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MyBB would be favourite. Why I hear you ask? Well It's simple. They have a brilliant team updating it frequently, it's fully customizable and personally tweak-able with plugins and it's also free, which is the main thing for me as I don't really want to be going out and spending around £150 for something that may not even take off.
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I agree with you, MyBB and phpBB are my favorites. I prefer MyBB though, I just like the GUI better.
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Myb purely because of all of the modifications and much else that can be added and easily tweaked with t. SMF is a very nice forum too yet not so widely used.
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Development on non-paid open source forum software will always be greater than that of the ones out there that aren't. It's as simple as that, so unless you have really dedicated development from a background team on the ones that aren't the development on open source software will almost always prosper over anything else. I expect MyBB to become increasingly popular for as long as people have interest in helping it. If that continues, it's obviously going to become bigger than it's competitors if it isn't already in comparison to a few.