I would have to agree with that - their support is good - their programming team is def. up to par to take care of any issues and it's an expandable platform.

--Tone

so does vbulletin and its more secure - WAY more secure.

--Tone

I would think so as you can change the db pre-test phpbb_ etc.

But why would you want to? It won't share the user base or anything.

--Tone

there's a lot of good sets over at the phpbb site - thanks Dani for posting the link.

--Tone

What is quick registering? I like that concept...

--Tone

Is there anyway to change the author of a post to someone else? ie. from admin to Shackbase?

I see i can edit posts, but it does not update nor does it seem to have an option to change who posted...

now that is some excellent advice, thanks Libertate.

--Toned

shackbase is a newer one for me to go with my whole set of sites, valuehosted was for when i was into hosting. :)

Ah - mine's Brichi after my daughters knickname (Brianna)... :) (licenseplate that...

Thats cool - here's my dilemma concerning that...

I am known as ValueHosted and ShackBase.... always sign my posts with --Tone...

Should I go with the username Tone and if so, should i rename...

Should the owner/main honcho of a forum use the title Admin or is better to go with a name like Dani is doing here on DW?

What are the pros and cons?

--Tone

I'd have to agree with duffy (err.. Harishankar) - quality over quantity.

Ofourse as your membership grows, so will your posts exponentially.

--Tone

Dani,

see your last post confuses me; you say you think word of mouth for a community web site and I agree, or you will just get a bunch of single click visitors that just clicked on your banner...

even going with an owned license you still have an annual fee to get updates.

--Tone

Pulse,

I was hoping it was some exotic script - whammo.. :) Thanks for letting me know.

--Tone

so if you had to pick one or two things that caused your slow start to go wrooom.. what would you say that was? Just time or something more substantial?

--Tone

btw - Dani.... When you snipped (that sounds so cruel by the way :o) - did you manually edit the post or do you have some kind of nifty script to do it for you?

--Tone

Thats ok Dani - they were there to prove a point, no biggie.

And ofcourse you are right about the admin being responsible about getting back to their posters if nobody else is... a bunch of solo...

atta boy.. good luck. I would recommend the leased version to start out with.

--Tone

Very true - I started << url snipped >> to allow people to discuss products and articles posted on my review sites. It's just been up for a couple of weeks, so there is not much there yet. But I am...

I was going with phpbb because of the simple reason it is free and I was going to use 4 different copies, one for each of my ranking sites (www.hardwareranking.com is the only one 'live' right now) -...