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Any Free Forums You Could Recommend?

#1 Post by Obscura » Wed Aug 29, 2012 4:27 pm

Can anybody recommend for a decent free forum to use for discussing one's game? Use any that you like?

I've looked at Freeforum and a couple of others and am overwhelmed by the choices.

Thanks for any suggestions.
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#2 Post by Victoria Jennings » Wed Aug 29, 2012 4:30 pm

Proboards? That's what I always use. U:

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#3 Post by Obscura » Wed Aug 29, 2012 4:32 pm

Sweet! Thank you! :-D
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#4 Post by PyTom » Wed Aug 29, 2012 4:53 pm

LSF uses phpBB3. I'm not sure if that should count as a recommendation, though. :-)
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#5 Post by Obscura » Wed Aug 29, 2012 4:56 pm

@PyTom
Oh wow. I didn't even realize. Thanks! I'll check that out too.
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#6 Post by Ziassan » Wed Aug 29, 2012 7:16 pm

phpBB3 is fine, but if ever you want to look for another, I personnaly use more often Simple Machines when I want to do that kind of thing : http://download.simplemachines.org/ (can look like that - sorry for the Fr ahah)
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#7 Post by FatUnicornGames » Thu Aug 30, 2012 1:44 am

http://brokenforum.com/index.php?forums ... arthur.17/

I love brokenforum especially the let's play section.
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#8 Post by Gear » Thu Aug 30, 2012 3:54 am

I've always had good luck with Invisionfree if I didn't have a server to upload my own forum software to.
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#9 Post by TeeGee » Sun Sep 09, 2012 3:31 am

We use phpBB3 and that's why I recommend Simple Machines ;).
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Re: Any Free Forums You Could Recommend?

#10 Post by fantanoice » Sun Sep 16, 2012 9:53 am

If you're going to go for remotely-hosted (opposed to self-hosted where you need organise your own hosting space, backups, etc), then you can't go wrong with Zetaboards. Out of the remotely-hosted options (Invisionfree, Proboards, etc), it has the most out-of-the-box features and has a reasonably easy to navigate Admin CP. It also looks a lot more modern than the other options and is pretty speedy to boot.

I used it for a couple of years before I switched to self hosting (MyBB). MyBB is also a pretty great option, but it takes more effort to maintain, so if you only want something to talk about your game with, I'd say stick to Zetaboards, or something else remotely-hosted.

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