Your first forum?
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FreeForums? What software did it use? And yeah Proboards is so oldschool, and its still kickin!
Oh man! That is REAL old school! What was your old forum about?Proboards is still around, damn
I think FreeForums was phpBB 2.0
My first forum was called "UDK Rocks," which was a reference to UpperDeckKids, which was a rewards site/forum that so many of us were on back then. This forum is still live to this day, although it looks nothing like it did. ProBoards has made a couple of major upgrades to their software since then. You're welcome to check out my cringeworthy posts though. The forum had a huge sum of 48 posts... Very successful, I know.
https://udkrocks.proboards.com/thread/1/rejected-hope-sites-good Love it
I ran a PokƩmon forum on Zetaboards. Had like 2k posts before I got bored. My first forum experience though was the RuneScape Official Forums way back in the day. I think I tried to buy a rune kite shield for 28k instead of 32k?
Deathstarr
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An Anime forum and on proboards then I found Invisionfree.
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Way back in the day (way way way back in the day), the first forum I personally created, was a forum created on ProBoards.com. Because if my inexperience and being 13 at the time, I never settled specifically on a topic for the forum. Eventually I ended up deleting it, after I finally figured out what I wanted to create something on a specific subject.
Thats probably STILL better than my first site ever did š¤£ I see many proboards and invisionfree forums! Good times!
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My first forum was Night Dreams and I believe I used ForuMotion for it. It lasted a good length of time, actually.
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InvisionFree - was for a RuneScape clan that I was staff on (believe it was called Souls Of The Fallen). Helped out with a few others before moving to MyBB with another clan, and then making my own websites personally via phpBB/WoltLab/GetGrav/WordPress/Joomla.
leangreen76
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My first was a sci-fi Proboard, but this was back in 2002. Those sci-fi forums that were about were either star trek or star wars orientated/themed, so I saw the gap in the market for an all round sci-fi forum and went for it! It became quite sucesssful.especially after adding a Matrix forum either after the first film or as the second was coming out. I still hadn't seen them but thought it might be popular and the members came flooding in with huge-ass discussions about theories and stuff. This wasn't the best pat however.
The best thing about it was the forum became more than the sum of it's parts due to close friendships and became more than a message board. That was the beauty of it, because of the closeless of the community, that's what made it shine more than member/post/thread count to be honest.
The best thing about it was the forum became more than the sum of it's parts due to close friendships and became more than a message board. That was the beauty of it, because of the closeless of the community, that's what made it shine more than member/post/thread count to be honest.
I never actually used Joomla. How is it?
KnownSyntax
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I liked it better than WordPress, but it has its weird aspects that makes it annoying to use - and their extension and extension update system is nothing like WordPress in a negative way.
