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11-11-2008, 09:59 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Dayton, OH
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Bulletin Boards
How hard is it to set up a BB and what is the one that has the most features anymore?
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11-11-2008, 10:05 PM
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Death Herald
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Le stelle la notte sono grandi e luminose nel cuore profondo del Texas
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If you have some technical skills, it is no big deal at all to get one set up. As for features, it all depends if you are looking for a free BB solution, or a pay one. For free, phpbb is pretty common, and has a decent feature set. For pay, vbulletin seems to be the most common.
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11-11-2008, 10:30 PM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Sep 2003
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As far as free boards go, I think the Simple Machines Forum.
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11-12-2008, 06:56 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2008
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This. I know of two different sites who moved away from phpBB. SMF is what I used when I ran a site for my City of Heroes super group. The most technical aspect of the whole thing is uploading the files to the server and getting it set up. Once it's set up, it's a breeze from there. |
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11-12-2008, 09:09 AM
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Washington, DC
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It depends on how you want to go about it. I have dreamhost for my hosting, and they have a "one-click install" of phpBB. You just say go to the dreamhost web interface and say "I want to install phpBB" and it gets installed. It doesn't get much easier than that.
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11-12-2008, 09:38 AM
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Appleton, WI
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I have set up phpBB on many different sites and that is a fairly straight-forward and painless install. I enjoy all the different mods and such that you can get for it as well, but it is really the only one I have used extensively (at least on the admin side), so I don't have much of a comparison.
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11-12-2008, 02:38 PM
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Dayton, OH
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How much are we talking about for vBulletin?
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11-12-2008, 02:43 PM
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Bounty Hunter
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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i like wwiv for pc, cnet and ivory for commodore 128, and dlg for amiga
god i'm old (this is a joke post, everyone just ignore me as usual)
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11-12-2008, 02:54 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2001
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Pins to billboard. |
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11-12-2008, 03:37 PM
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Washington, DC
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I ran wwiv, but pcb and renegade seemed far more popular.
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11-12-2008, 04:14 PM
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Bounty Hunter
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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11-12-2008, 04:38 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Washington, DC
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Well, later on, particularly in the ANSI scene, things like OBV/2, Vision-X and some others really started to take hold. Whatever made it easiest to integrate some |<-R4D ANSIs into your screens.
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11-12-2008, 04:45 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2008
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Lazy much? https://www.vbulletin.com/order/ |
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11-12-2008, 06:33 PM
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Quarterback
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: London, England
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vBulletin is very good if you are running a large forum, but if you are just starting out I would recommend you try the free software until you build up your community. You may be able to import the messages into a vBulletin board at a later date.
Setting up vBulletin is easy if you have had any web development experience. |
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11-12-2008, 11:09 PM
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Dayton, OH
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The community would be roughly 15-20 regulars with new people regularly coming in. The big question is how long the new people stick around which I don't really know. I'm trying to get away from Yahoo! Groups and move to a BB which is what prompted the question. |
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11-12-2008, 11:21 PM
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Decatur, GA
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Is there something you are trying to tell us?
 
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