Creating A Message Board

[ALBballer]

Can anyone tell me the difficulty in creating one? I've done some small research but wanted some first hand opinions.

[simcjt]

The hardest part to making one is getting a community together that is interested in the general premise of the forum and contribute.

[Lebowsky]

Also make sure your forum has no seach function whatsoever. Otherwise it could become so powerful and efficient that it might start searching itself, causing the universe to fall into an infinite loop.

[TootsieRoll]

vbulletin for sure... but your gonna have trouble getting posters.

trust me that dick Blue_dog45 tried creating a message board. HAHAHA!

[ALBballer]

Also make sure your forum has no seach function whatsoever. Otherwise it could become so powerful and efficient that it might start searching itself, causing the universe to fall into an infinite loop.

lol



vbulletin for sure... but your gonna have trouble getting posters.

trust me that dick Blue_dog45 tried creating a message board. HAHAHA!

It wont' be a basketball forum. I've read that v bulletin is much easier to use for beginners than compared to phpbb is this true?

[B-Low]

It wont' be a basketball forum. I've read that v bulletin is much easier to use for beginners than compared to phpbb is this true?

Better not be. Jeff sees you.

[Crystallas]

Creating a site with a message board is ridiculously easy. It's almost laughable. If your goal was to have a working forum, you would succeed 99 times out of 100(and the 100th is reserved for the idiot who can't read).

[sixerfan82]

Creating a site with a message board is ridiculously easy. It's almost laughable. If your goal was to have a working forum, you would succeed 99 times out of 100(and the 100th is reserved for the idiot who can't read).

I LOL'ed because it's true. Getting a community together is the difficult part. It's no different than building a business from the ground up.

[iamgine]

Be prepared to spend many hours every day creating multiple accounts and discussing stuff with yourself.

[chrisxuk]

It wont' be a basketball forum. I've read that v bulletin is much easier to use for beginners than compared to phpbb is this true?

PHPBB isn't hard to use, vBulletin is easier though.

PHPBB is free, you have to pay to use vBulletin.

[LJJ]

Make sure you give bruinlove a heads up. I heard he was looking for a new board.

[sundizz]

What are some of the 'legal' problems with a forum? Is there a particular reason that a forum HAS to have rules? For example posting video links with naked girls/profanity etc? Could I have a forum with no rules, or would I be liable for materials that people are posting (since i started the forum)?

[rufuspaul]

I thought the Albanian Man-Boy Love board already existed.:confusedshrug:

[wheyhigh]

vbulletin for sure... but your gonna have trouble getting posters.

trust me that dick Blue_dog45 tried creating a message board. HAHAHA!
anything other than vbulletin is a pos. real talk. vbulletin is pricey for a reason, it's options and overall presentation, it's not generic nor unprofessional. i'm not sure if you still can, but op should go to vbulletin site and sample a forum, they use to allow you to make a forum using vbulletin for 24 hours, pretty cool because it let's you see how powerless moderators are. :lol

[bballer]

Good Luck.

Have fun getting posters though.

You will have to advertise on Twitter and everything.

Goona take a good bit bro

[sundizz]

I've wanted to make one for a bit now I just need to spend some time to get together all the information. I visit maybe 5-6 forums and it seems on these forums there are (depending on the forum) maybe 20-30 posters that actually post for real and don't just try to get laughs, or post ridiculous stuff. I would think a small community of 100-200 solid people would be a lot more interesting. It is frustrating to be on a forum about something you are interested in, and see a thread that has great potential...but is 15 pages deep because half the responses are animated gifs or a 2 line comment.

[sundizz]

On a side note; if facebook allowed you to make a group with NON-friends I could make a great FORUM. I have 3 friends and we created a private private group. It's AWESOME. We post articles, just our weekend story, random videos we find interesting etc and you can comment directly on it. It is a bit limited in the way it works but for something with only 10-20 people it has potential to be quite interesting. Actually there is an alternative, shameless plug for my friend's website, but they created a social network site, micromobs.com

It's pretty awesome. You can create a mob and make threads etc. I do prefer the forum format though when a large amount of threads etc are being done.

[ALBballer]

Ok so the other things I would need are:

1) A domain name

2) Server to host the message board

Sorry still a noob at this

[Eat Like A Bosh]

Well nowadays with CMS software such as Vbulletin, it makes creating a website easy, even if you know nothing about the more advanced programming languages. Like you need absolutely no knowledge of PHP/MySql.

Use CMS software to make it, and find a host and register your own domain name if you want. But the hardest part is actually finding active members.

[Loneshot]

Also make sure your forum has no seach function whatsoever. Otherwise it could become so powerful and efficient that it might start searching itself, causing the universe to fall into an infinite loop.
:roll:

[TootsieRoll]

Also make sure your forum has no seach function whatsoever. Otherwise it could become so powerful and efficient that it might start searching itself, causing the universe to fall into an infinite loop.
:roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:

[NBAplayoffs2001]

I remember message boards for this Counter Strike community we had. Somehow the dude who founded it still supports it by asking for a certain amount of money donated per month (for the website and the numerous servers we had) although I think he said he put in a few thousand every year from his salary (I think the dude was making like $90K a year so $2-3K of the $12K he needed every year to run the community smoothly). I give him props because he was on top of things and I've seen others try to do similar things and eventually lose the community servers/message board due to inactivity or disorganization or lack of funds which often happens for a lot of message boards that barely last.