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Advice Regarding Building a Forum

by teamincome
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Hey Guys

I want to build a forum for a product I am lauching to act as a place for support and advice.

My question is for people who have actually built there own forum

What is the best option (preferably free or cheap)?

I only want a simple one, where i can not allow html etc in signatures, keep out spammers and which is easy to setup and maintain etc

Any advice?
#advice #building #forum
  • Profile picture of the author radhika
    I personally prefer;

    Punbb.com
    smf forums

    Both are simple, many mods if you really want to add features.

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  • Profile picture of the author bollytintin
    You can go with smf forums or phpBB forums.

    If you can work with Wordpress, I learnt there is a forum plugin you can instal. It is called bbpress. Never worked with it so I can't say how it is. Combining a blog and forum could be good advice.
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  • Profile picture of the author dreamtab
    You can use phpBB or WordPress Plugin as suggested.

    I recently built a forum on vBulletin. Its the best but its not free.
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  • Profile picture of the author dreamtab
    You can use phpBB or WordPress Plugin as suggested.

    I recently built a forum on vBulletin. Its the best but its not free.
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    Website Setup $250 only
    Full-Time VA Available. 13 years IM, SEO, WordPress, Customer Support experience.
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  • Profile picture of the author Flipfilter
    Unfortunately the building is the easy part!

    Start getting content and topics for discussion ready from even now, and you'll have a head start once it's built.
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  • Profile picture of the author crushthenet
    For simplicity I would say Phorum. It looks decent and it's super simple.
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