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Starting a forum site
Posted on 6/30/22 at 5:16 pm
Posted on 6/30/22 at 5:16 pm
I've got an idea for a forum (small niche group, this is no money maker). Just wondering if anyone has any suggestions for hosts? Platforms? TIA.
Posted on 6/30/22 at 5:31 pm to Kingpenm3
discord? #slack?
Posted on 6/30/22 at 7:20 pm to Kingpenm3
Dear Penthouse Forum....,
Posted on 6/30/22 at 10:26 pm to jfw3535
PM Chicken and ask him what this site uses and stay away from it. Maybe they're still on the free trial version, but this site needs a refresh bad.
Posted on 6/30/22 at 10:57 pm to broadhead
Most people here don't want a refresh. I know I don't. It's simple and functional.
Posted on 7/1/22 at 9:04 am to efrad
this board just needs a dark mode
Posted on 7/1/22 at 10:36 am to broadhead
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this site needs a refresh bad.
This is far and away the best forum site I have ever been on
Posted on 7/1/22 at 11:11 am to Kingpenm3
Discord
Posted on 7/1/22 at 3:17 pm to efrad
Oh, and to actually answer your question -- I run a niche message board myself. At different times I've used Hostwinds, Dreamhost, and HostGator, and they'll all do just fine running a message board on the standard shared hosting plans. I've run this board on phpBB for over 20 years and it's solid software (and free).
Posted on 7/2/22 at 5:47 am to Kingpenm3
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This post was edited on 11/7/22 at 7:26 am
Posted on 7/2/22 at 8:56 pm to RadRob
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I'm using phpBB LINK /
Used this and ran a forum for years, but we just evolved to chatting on different apps. Need a site to host it, and doing updates isn't always fun. Especially if you get bored and find a bunch of fun mods. It became more work than I wanted to do. If you keep it to the basic stuff it is probably a lot easier.
Posted on 7/2/22 at 10:18 pm to calcotron
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Used this and ran a forum for years, but we just evolved to chatting on different apps. Need a site to host it, and doing updates isn't always fun. Especially if you get bored and find a bunch of fun mods. It became more work than I wanted to do. If you keep it to the basic stuff it is probably a lot easier.
I prefer maintaining a message board because it creates a good long record of conversations (and in the case of the board I maintain which involves video game programming on very old hardware, people frequently reference information documented from many years ago), something I believe is being lost in modern chat apps and social media based communities on the internet these days. But you are absolutely right about phpBB mods. Maintaining and repairing a board using so many mods in the phpBB 1.x and 2.x days was such a task that I ended up building a bunch of PHP and SQL programming knowledge when I was a teenager. It's a lot easier in the 3.3.x branch that exists these days, but I'd still recommend only sticking to the more common mods with a lot of users so you know things will be well supported. And back up your database frequently.
Posted on 7/3/22 at 8:39 pm to efrad
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This post was edited on 10/25/26 at 5:50 pm
Posted on 7/4/22 at 5:22 am to Kingpenm3
You might want to take a look at Pro Boards. You can have a free forum there (will have to tolerate some ads unless you pay a small fee), and not have to deal with the install and maintenance of forum software. There forums run well, and from an admin standpoint work just like phpBB.
Posted on 7/4/22 at 6:21 pm to broadhead
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but this site needs a refresh bad.
First of all: badly*
Second: vast majority doesn’t want a refresh. Nearly every other forum is a busy-looking mumbo jumbo crappy website
This post was edited on 7/4/22 at 6:22 pm
Posted on 7/5/22 at 12:32 pm to efrad
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prefer maintaining a message board because it creates a good long record of conversations
They will be calling that "evidence" when .gov gets rid of 230.
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