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 May 1 2006, 03:07 AM
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Advanced Member  Group: Members Posts: 130 Joined: 1-May 06 Member No.: 22,833  |
what are good and free solutions to adding a forum and a chat feature to my site. Just what an easy to use and easy to set up forum and chat feature only have around 100 members (so far)
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May 1 2006, 03:19 AM
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Hidden Secrets can't be told threw just words. One must feel what the other feels to truely understand... Group: Members Posts: 1,522 Joined: 8-January 06 From: Sacramento California Member No.: 16,756 |
for forums, i suggest you use MyBB it is easy to install and use as for a chat, i dont know any good free ad-free ones but http://www.parachat.com/ is good, as well as http://www.x7chat.com/
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May 1 2006, 03:21 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 130 Joined: 1-May 06 Member No.: 22,833 |
 seems alot of people mention phpbb. Is this forum running on that
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May 1 2006, 03:22 AM
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Hidden Secrets can't be told threw just words. One must feel what the other feels to truely understand... Group: Members Posts: 1,522 Joined: 8-January 06 From: Sacramento California Member No.: 16,756 |
no this forum is running on Invision Power Board, but it costs around 200 bucks to get
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 May 1 2006, 03:31 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 130 Joined: 1-May 06 Member No.: 22,833 |
I have made this site if you want to look some of my work www.darkerthanvanilla.com.au
Have you got a site you made |
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May 1 2006, 04:04 AM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 184 Joined: 29-April 06 From: San Francisco, CA Member No.: 22,735 |
You should consider going with PhpBB or SMF if you are looking for some free forum software.
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May 1 2006, 05:51 AM
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A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.  Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 4,081 Joined: 24-July 05 From: Linix, DOS and Windows…the good, the bad and the ugly Member No.: 9,787  |
Punbb is a free one and validates to xhtml Strict. And there are Chat Rooms available through the fantastico on the Hosting accounts here.
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May 1 2006, 10:50 PM
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-=Hybrid Bus=- Group: Members Posts: 742 Joined: 2-November 05 From: My hybrid bus (in NYC), a computer Member No.: 13,709 |
If you use Mambo, you can have a forum intergrated into the design of your site by installing the Simpleboard component (fom Two Shoes Mambo Factory, http://www.tsmf.net) It's very free, and provides a decent feature set. It can intergrate with Community Builder user profiles, and has a limited set of user permissions.
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May 2 2006, 08:30 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 9 Joined: 21-April 06 Member No.: 22,214 |
I know that it has been mentioned here before but phpBB is probably one of the better choices for a free, easy to install BB. There are plenty of very helpful guides and tutorials about for this.
An honourable mention would be www.phpbbhacks.com/ Very informative, very helpfull, take a look. |
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