The Gallery, a web based photo management system, recently upgraded their Website to Drupal 4.7.2. When you get a chance, check out their forum. One of the criticisms of forums in Drupal is that...well they don't look like the forums we know. At least Drupal's default forum does not look like those we see by default in phpBB and SMF.

The folks at Gallery have done a nice job to show just what Drupal can do for a site's forum. Some of the custom code the Gallery has put into their site has also submitted back to the Drupal project:

It was a significant effort to migrate our custom code to this release, but the improved design should make future upgrades a bit easier. We've also been able to give some of our work back to the Drupal project, particularly in the comment_upload, privatemsg and bbcode_wysiwyg modules. Posted at Gallery

Those interested in changing the look and feel of Drupal's forums will also want to check out the flatforum theme template found at Drupal.org.

Here at CMS Report, we have no plans at this time to providing a forum to discuss various CMS projects and applications. We already have a SMF forum, the WebCMS Forum, covering the same forum topics. While we would have no problem in using Drupal's forum module, we like SMF. Using more than one CMS application helps us widen our experiences and keep us impartial to which CMS may be right for users. A philosophy we continue to hammer here and there.