[Hidden-tech] request feedback on forum made with Vanilla Forums

[Jordan Lee Wagner]

A new forum is like a party before the first guests arrive.  Suggest you 
prune the initial number of forums to no more than four, by combining 
subjects.  Then split the busiest ones as activity grows. 

(If you have a big customer/fan base that will instantly spillover into 
the forums in high volume, perhaps you can start with as many forums as 
you've got.  Otherwise merge some topics.)

One of my forum sites is http://www.Accordionist.org (a forum running 
FireBoard within the Joomla CMS; but made to resemble vBulletin a bit).  
I originally made the mistake of having twice as many forum topics, but 
then fused them to reach critical mass.

--- Jordan Lee Wagner
support at Trupod.com
www.Trupod.com





Jonathon Podolsky wrote:
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> Hi HT,
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> A couple months ago I posted requesting thoughts on which forum 
> application to use.  I'm very appreciative for the comments.  I want 
> to report back and request feedback on the forum.
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> People provided a lot of interesting suggestions such as PunBB, 
> vbulletin, phpBB, Vanilla etc.  I ended up going with Vanilla but 
> adding in several Add-ons/Extensions.  And then had it integrated with 
> the rest of my website.  I had the same web designer do that as well 
> us update my CMS (CMS Made Simple <http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/>).  
> It was pretty easy to set up the forum, although adding in the extra 
> modules and making the forum fit in visually with the rest of my 
> website took time.
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> So far I'm happy, it's fast and simple to use, as well as administer.  
> The flip side is that it doesn't have a lot of features -- some can be 
> added in with Extensions, and some features just aren't available.  
> Please let me know your feedback:
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> http://wholehealthexpo.com/forum/categories.php
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> Thank you!
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> All the best,
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> Jonathon Podolsky
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