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forum software and junk
« on: May 22, 2008, 03:26:30 PM »
So, if one wanted to run an online websitey "forum" thing, but didn't want to bother with finding (and funding) shell-style hosting and software installing and whatnot, what would you recommend...that's free? I don't mean like a yahoo group, I'm mean like how AO has all these separate areas (I guess they used to be called SIG's) for things.
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Re: forum software and junk
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2008, 06:54:51 PM »
Sure, I can look around with googleface, but word of mouthfingers adds to decision making easierness.
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Re: forum software and junk
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2008, 07:58:55 PM »
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from that wikipedia page Zac67 recommended:
...remotely hosted services (such as Conforums, Hyperboards, Proboards, Suddenlaunch or vForums, and xForums (infestor and anoop)) which use their own proprietary software, rather than offering a package for download which webmasters can host by themselves.


Those are what I was getting at. I took a quick look and at least a few seem to be using the same software, at least they look like they do. (Don't google search "anoop", unless you want some surprising image results. :-o) So, I guess which to go with doesn't really really matter.

Does anyone recommend any of those "remotely hosted services" specifically or have any recommendations of others I should gander?
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« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2008, 10:24:46 PM »


I've been digging around the free forum hosting places and setting up test forums and whatnot. Most of them that I've tried have problems where if you want to change the style, the style doesn't change at all. Not even if you use their dialog box technology and type in a color. So, some seem neat beans, but the management business isn't so beans of neat.

Anyhoo, the latest one I'm trying is forumotion.com. Pretty much everything they have on there works so far. I'm leaning towards it. Anyone have any badness they want to share about that particular service? I don't wanna jump into something too fast because if it gets rolling and I need to switch services, the users will be very mad at having to start all over again and the reason for starting it in the first place was to have a place where people didn't have to keep having new accounts.


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Re: updatey
« Reply #4 on: May 29, 2008, 05:23:03 AM »

Do you think the hackability is lessened by having the software be managed by some dedicated forum hosting company? That's my theory that I'm hoping is correct.
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