phpBB • Free and Open Source Forum Software

Prosilver is a good starting point for you. You can increase font sizes easily with css. My forums is using prosilver, and I changed its look to what I need with a couple of css adjustments. I made a few other changes as well, but you won't need them, if it's only about bigger font.

If you want to make simple css changes, you have a great built-in tool in firefox that helps a lot. Just open your site, right click on your mouse and choose 'Inspect Element'. This tool allows you to see the css code of elements on your page.

For me it looks like niche forums are still doing fine, but 'general' forums that are not dedicated to something have suffered a lot.

Hey friends, on my site I use phpBB as a support forum. I would like to redirect all traffic to always use https, instead of http. Generally on my site this works fine, but as phpBB comes with its own .htaccess file, I guess that it needs some tweaks. What I did was I added the code below at the bot...

Hey friends, I'm not sure if my post really belongs here, if not please move it. I enjoy phpbb quite a lot and have worked a little on my own forum, giving it a sexy greyish feeling (I hope sexy ;) ). It's supposed to work as a support forum, and I tried to trim it that way. My goals were to throw e...