Forum Host or Social Network ^.^

[Luke]

Hmm, believes this is the right place 😛

So, I'm thinking that making one of these would be good, it would be good to help people out with having a free forum, and it might be nice to make a social network >.< Which one should I choose? If I was to create a forum host, I would put multiple forum softwares onto it, phpBB, myBB, punBB etc (probably) and it would all be live. I have made two forum hosts before, but didn't really take off because we only used punBB =/ I have experience in the forum hosting game 😀 Yeah, please "vote" 😛 🙂 😀 :great:

 

[Gimgak]

Unless the social network would have a unique spin then a forum host. I already connect with my friends on FB and if its a clone I dont see the point.

 

[Luke]

OK, let's make a tally here 😀

Forum Host: 1
Social Network: 0

Thanks for your comments, yes it is hard to get past Twitter, Facebook etc. 😛

 

[Cam]

It seems impossible to create a unique social network now, so no to the social network.

Also, you have already participated in the creation of two forum hosts, why make a third one?

 

[Luke]

It seems impossible to create a unique social network now, so no to the social network.

Also, you have already participated in the creation of two forum hosts, why make a third one?

Because, talkaForums, got ditched, BBForums had a .info, I didn't widely advertise it etc. I believe I could do something good with another forum host, get it all set up with a shiny .com and begin setting up the multiforums. Another reason why is with the other two forums hosts, I didn't put as much effort as I couldve because with talkaForums we were going to make our own software so we would've lost everything and with BBForums we were expecting the rforums script. This time I will be working with the multiforum scripts and possiblely in the future making my own forum script to add-on to this service.

 

[Cam]

It seems impossible to create a unique social network now, so no to the social network.

Also, you have already participated in the creation of two forum hosts, why make a third one?

Because, talkaForums, got ditched, BBForums had a .info, I didn't widely advertise it etc. I believe I could do something good with another forum host, get it all set up with a shiny .com and begin setting up the multiforums. Another reason why is with the other two forums hosts, I didn't put as much effort as I couldve because with talkaForums we were going to make our own software so we would've lost everything and with BBForums we were expecting the rforums script. This time I will be working with the multiforum scripts and possiblely in the future making my own forum script to add-on to this service.

So, you are saying BBForums wasn't successful because of the type of TLD it had?
Why didn't you widely advertise it though?

 

[Luke]

It seems impossible to create a unique social network now, so no to the social network.

Also, you have already participated in the creation of two forum hosts, why make a third one?

Because, talkaForums, got ditched, BBForums had a .info, I didn't widely advertise it etc. I believe I could do something good with another forum host, get it all set up with a shiny .com and begin setting up the multiforums. Another reason why is with the other two forums hosts, I didn't put as much effort as I couldve because with talkaForums we were going to make our own software so we would've lost everything and with BBForums we were expecting the rforums script. This time I will be working with the multiforum scripts and possiblely in the future making my own forum script to add-on to this service.

So, you are saying BBForums wasn't successful because of the type of TLD it had?
Why didn't you widely advertise it though?

I didn't widely advertise because I thought we would get a new domain, new script and it meant a lot of changes would happen which I thought would happen a lot sooner than they did. In the end we weren't getting anywhere with a .info, I had a few comments about it, though this time I will put as much as I can and my staff can to get it up and running and going (if I make one.)

 

[David]

You're looking at two very saturated markets, if not markets which have giants in them which you will most likely never get to their level of success, which is reality for anyone.

Nonetheless, I'm happy with Facebook so I wouldn't join your social network, and so I guess that leaves the forum host. Even then, you would have to have a high skill in PHP and good knowledge in marketing just to get genuine customers, ie. someone who has found you in Google under the search term "free forum host" etc., and not someone from FP.

 

[Mik.]

I'd say forum host. You already have experience in it so. You've got all the promoting services at FP!

 

[Luke]

I think a forum host would be the best idea, there is massive giants like Facebook and twitter who I could never get better than, with forums, there is a large market with people looking for new things, mostly a new host etc.

I think I have made up my mind, now it's the decisions of what softwares to include!

 

[Mik.]

phpBB
SMF
MyBB

I'd say just those 3. Good luck with it!

 

[Luke]

The SMF multiforum costs 🙁

 

[Mik.]

Okay thats fine. SMF sucks anyways. lol.

Okay try:
phpBB
MyBB

and possibly I.P. Board if you can. 🙂

 

[Luke]

And punBB, just for the sake that it's free 😛 I'm not sure how it will work, you might have to have domains like blash.com/mybb/forum =/ blah.com/phpbb/forum =/ IYO do you think that looks bad?

 

[Mik.]

Yes it does. I'd recommend domain.ROOTDOMAIN.com/index.php

 

[Luke]

I'm not sure how many multiforum scripts do that... eeek

 

[Mr.Paine]

Forum host for sure

 

[Mik.]

Sounds like you've got some research to do my friend. Just do your best and make it unique! Also add premium services to gain revenue.

-Remove Ads
-More Features

 

[Luke]

If you guys find any free ones please tell me 😀 😀 😀

 

[Umbreon]

Well first of all, are you proficient at PHP? There are scripts out there, but most of them are not free.