PunBB powers Facebook Developers Forum

March 1, 2008

This's a very accidental discovery. I found out that Facebook.com is using PunBB for their Developers Forum.

The strange thing that caught my attention is that PunBB is a very simple PHP-powered bulletin board. Why such a big company like Facebook didn't make their own forum CMS or use a commercial one such as vBulletin, or the free and famous one phpBB, or bbPress. Why PunBB?

I went ahead to PunBB and register for an account for their forum. I tested it and here are some findings.