Which modules should I add to Advanced Forum to provide increased functionality?
While I do think this question is off-topic for this site, I know what you're going through. I recently built a forum with drupal, and I was surprised at how difficult it was to choose a good module to fulfill certain requirements, or even how to find the right ones for the job.

So to help you out, here's some modules I used to add functionality to the forum:


Flag + Flag Abuse
Privatemsg
Subscriptions
ACL + Forum Access
Author Pane
AutoAssignRole
CAPTCHA + reCAPTCHA
Comment Permissions
Comment Upload
Custom Search
Flatcomments
Override Node Options
Private Upload
Quote
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