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Subject: Resurrecting the "new forum?" question

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Dena

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Date Posted: 09:05:41 09/11/03 Thu
In reply to: Jake 's message, "Forum speed" on 10:05:08 09/07/03 Sun

There's been discussions on and off for months about moving to a new forum. I'm willing to move us if we've got a mandate to do so -- but the last time we had a vote this summer, the verdict came out three votes to change, three votes to stay the same, and everybody else no comment.

Here are my requirements for a forum:

1) Not hosted on jac.anime.net (so that we can post on the forum when the web's down and vice versa)
2) No pop-up ads or spyware
3) No have-to-click-through-an-ad-to-get-to-message (i.e. no Yahoo Groups)
4) Light on graphics to be modem-user friendly
5) Text-accessible (designed in a way to be text-browser friendly, i.e. when you look at it through Lynx or something like that, it doesn't turn completely unusable because so much is graphic-only)
6) Reasonable thread handling

The best thing this forum had going for it was its thread handling. Most of the other publicly-hosted boards follow the PHPbb model and put the newest message at the very end of the list rather than in response to the one replied to. But good thread handling isn't necessarily enough to outweigh the nuisance factor of unpredictable lag times.

Here are some of the boards that had been nominated as possible successors -- at the moment I can't seem to find the previous list in the archives; these are just the ones I remember off the top of my head...

PHPbb-type:
http://www.proboards.com/Home-Features.html
(sample at http://support.proboards.com/)
or
http://www.ezboard.com
(sample at http://pub175.ezboard.com/fguardiansoforder44269frm4 -- note that the URLs are harder to memorize, but it DOES let people post without having to formally register, which most other boards don't allow)

Single-board type (like this one; less clear thread handling; but lets you view all replies on the same page, which was on the last request list):
http://www.hostboard.com/
(sample at http://www.hostboard.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum&f=4898 -- note that the URLs will be harder to memorize)

...and there were several other nominees but there were fewer people around to discuss them over the summer.

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: Resurrecting the "new forum?" question	Jake	11:45:47 09/11/03 Thu
New forum for trial run! ^____^ -- Dena, 20:24:55 09/11/03 Thu