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ThansalThansal The New Scum Join Date: 2002-08-22 Member: 1215Members, Constellation
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<div class="IPBDescription">diff ones</div> I have been noticing the large number of differant forums out there (ie programs)

and I was wondering if any one was knowledgable about them, I have heard that alot of them ae free (I think I remember some one saying that this one is free, as well as the old boards)

what I am realy wondering about is if there are nice free fourms out there (like these) why do people still use crappy ones that throw adds all over the place?(ProBoards)

basicaly I am curious and was wondering if any one knows
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  • SlycasterSlycaster Limited Edition Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 24Members, NS1 Playtester
    They are easy to set up, and more newbie friendly. That's probably the biggest reason. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • ThansalThansal The New Scum Join Date: 2002-08-22 Member: 1215Members, Constellation
    hmm, how hard could these boards be to set up?

    I understand it is obviously harder then others, but isn't it worth it


    basicly most of my confusion came from the fact that ProBoards seemes to be a 'viable' option in peoples minds
    thie board is badly designed, popus up an add every time you move from page to page, and they offer you a certain # of 'ad free' page views for like $7(that is the person who pays $7 gets the add free pages), not to mention their just ugly lol


    meh, more things to teach myself over winter term (how to set up a forum ;D)
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  • FlatlineUTDFlatlineUTD Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7695Members
    A lot of pages that are on free hosts don't have PHP or ASP capabilities. Many of the good boards, like Invision or PHPBB, need these languages installed on the server, and usually a MySQL database as well. Most people don't know these like they know HTML, and aren't willing to pay a monthly hosting fee for a good server.
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  • tlarmontlarmon Join Date: 2002-11-15 Member: 8701Members
    edited December 2002
    vBulletin is by contest the absolute best forum package in the 0 - $100 range. I absolutely love it.

    Check it out at my site: <a href='http://www.hastezone.com' target='_blank'>www.hastezone.com</a>

    And a forum that makes great use of it on a large scale: <a href='http://www.hardforums.com' target='_blank'>www.hardforums.com</a>


    As for a 100% free board, I'd say InvisionBoard is probably the best, followed by phpBB2. But you won't get all the feature rich things that vBulletin offers
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  • ThansalThansal The New Scum Join Date: 2002-08-22 Member: 1215Members, Constellation
    very cool, I will keep all of this in mind, ty
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  • ShadowXORShadowXOR Join Date: 2002-11-27 Member: 10106Members
    The best forum is this one, Invision Board, it is free, and in my experience (a lot of it) better then vBulletin and phpBB.
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