Tired of using that piece of crap phpBB board, or maybe you’d just rather a cheaper and more user-friendly solution to vBulletin. Well, I’m happy to give my vote to a very well done project called Vanilla. Lussumo, the developers behind Vanilla, have just launched Vanilla 1.0, the first official release for the forum software.

Vanilla is an open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual, fully extensible discussion forum for the web. Anyone who has web-space that meets the requirements can download and use Vanilla for free!

If you want to see it in action, you can check out their community site or head over to the forums at HackWOW where we put it to use as well.