[Hidden-tech] Ready made forum solutions

[Wesley Rosner]

Jonathan,

I have experience with phpBB 3 and found it to be excellent.  In my  
travels on the web it seems like it is used almost exclusively for  
forums.  I found it to be easy to setup, customize and configure, BUT  
it is very substantial application at this point with LOTS of  
options.  With regard to ease of use, while it is, it's worth  
commenting on.  One of the major problems with any piece of software  
that is widespread and  "in the wild" on the internet is that they  
ultimately come under attack.  For this reason there are things that  
slow down the user like "visual challenges" for sign-up and so on.   
These precautions though are totally essential and just par for the  
course.  Having been burned by poorly maintained open source projects,  
I now only work with those that are extremely active, frequently  
updated and easy to update (wordpress leading the way in this regard),  
and phpBB3 I think fits that bill.  Also I would say that I started  
using phpBB for a support site and switched ultimately to wordpress.   
For my purposes it ended up fitting the bill better and creating a  
better user experience.  I can't say enough good about WordPress but  
you'd have to see if it fit you goals and it may not.

If you need help setting it up or making a choice of products feel  
free to contact us.

Best,



Wes
On Dec 20, 2008, at 5:19 PM, Jonathon Podolsky wrote:

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> Dear HT - ers,
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> I'm looking to setup a forum.  Here are is what I'm hoping for  
> ideally:
>
> Simple enough that users will want to post
> Inexpensive (including setup or can setup myself)
> Easy to setup
> Quick to setup
> Can have different forum managers for each forum (ride sharing,  
> health discussion etc...)
> phpbb 3 is a possible solution (also it's open source), and can be  
> setup for free right away by certain hosting providers.  But I have  
> no experience with it, so wondering if it's good.
>
> Does anyone have experience with that forum solution?  Other  
> solutions you would suggest or a particular host for that kind of  
> thing?
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