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24-09-2007, 10:44 AM
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Group: Regulars
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recommend a free online discussion forum
I'd like to create a message board for a small interest group (probably around 100 people). Tried facebook but not many members have it so it didn't get too many posts.
Can anyone recommend a free forum?
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24-09-2007, 10:50 AM
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De gustibus non est disputandum
Group: Regulars
Location: O'Connor, Democratic People's Republic of Canberra
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Facebook. If you aren't on Facebook basically you don't exist
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24-09-2007, 10:54 AM
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Beware the Robot Mafia
Group: Administrators
Location: St. Albans, Melbourne
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PunBB is good: http://punbb.org/
You do need to install it yourself on some web hosting however (not that hard and a good skill to have IMHO) |
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24-09-2007, 10:54 AM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Perth, WA
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facebook + myspace + any of those other 'social networking' sites = poo.
I can't stand that crap...
Each to their own though.
Have you looked at those freeboards or something like that?
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24-09-2007, 11:00 AM
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Group: Regulars
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Originally Posted by decryption
PunBB is good: http://punbb.org/
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thanks but too complicated. It looks good - nice and clean, which is what I'm after, but I don't know how to do any of that stuff myself. Just looking for an all inclusive kind of thing. I realise we wouldn't get much out of a free service but if it becomes big enough to justify an upgrade I would be willing to pay a monthly fee. |
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24-09-2007, 11:03 AM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Nedlands, WA
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Originally Posted by morgan
Facebook. If you aren't on Facebook basically you don't exist
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This may be true for 14 year olds....
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24-09-2007, 11:19 AM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Boo-ga-wona-land
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Originally Posted by thorevenge
facebook + myspace + any of those other 'social networking' sites = poo.
I can't stand that crap...
Each to their own though.
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24-09-2007, 11:26 AM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Somewhere with beers
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Theres a few. If you buy a domain name and hosting you would have to upload these ones to the server.
http://www.simplemachines.org/
http://www.phpbb.com/
http://www.yabbforum.com/
Alternatively , if you want someone else to host it and you want a free one and can risk having your domain as a subdomain on someones website. www.mycoolboard.freeboards.com or whatever.
http://www.freeforums.org/
http://www.forumer.com/
http://www.invisionplus.net/
just some ideas 
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24-09-2007, 11:28 AM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Brisbane, Qld
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What is the program that mactalk (and for what I can see, macrumors) is built on?
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24-09-2007, 11:29 AM
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The Fail Whale
Group: Regulars
Location: Frequent Flyer!
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i'll host you for free if you bring your own domain..
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24-09-2007, 11:33 AM
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Beware the Robot Mafia
Group: Administrators
Location: St. Albans, Melbourne
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Originally Posted by entropy
What is the program that mactalk (and for what I can see, macrumors) is built on?
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vBulletin - http://www.vbulletin.com/ |
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24-09-2007, 11:37 AM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Brisbane, Qld
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Originally Posted by decryption
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ta. I will have a look
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24-09-2007, 11:42 AM
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Group: Regulars
Location: NSW
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Go with something like PunBB, DON'T use PHPBB2 because it's probably the most exploited forum package around.
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24-09-2007, 11:50 AM
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Regular
Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne
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I just setup a forum for my University's 3-Semester project using vBulletin, however you have to pay for it.
For free message board, you could myphp. What you need to do is to host it on a server that supports PHP & MySQL. I've installed it on my iMac so I have no problem looking for a server.
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24-09-2007, 06:43 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Newcastle, NSW
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groups.google.com or groups.yahoo.com?
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