Choosing a Forum for Drupal

This was fairly easy for me. I use SMF for one of my other sites and I am a charter member (so I get support etc). Once I found this SMF-Drupal Integration it like a no brainer. However something felt funny in my tummy. While SMF rocks and drupal rocks, it felt funny kinda bolting them together. The integration was fairly easy but looked pretty goofy with SMF sitting in a frame or worst taking over the entire page. So i decided to dive into the drupal forum module to see what I could make work and how close I could get it to SMF.

The first thing I noticed after enabling the forum module and creating a few forums are the nice search engine friendly URLs. Sweet! I like it already.

I then went and added the modules mentioned in this SMF forum doc looks like we might be on to something here. One thing I keep running into is the default "non-prettyness" of drupal. I get all the piece in place functionally but I am left wanting cause it is just kinda ugly. Guess it is time to dive into themes...