Zetaboards
- Thread starter Gizmo
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It's all archived on Tapatalk: https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/smash_camp/
Seems it has not been back since 2018 it seems.
Tapatalk should be banned here. It's a mess! lol
I was Cabin 1 cabin leader in 2015 it appears lol. Was looking at all my posts XD
Agreed. It's a dang mess.
SMASH CAMP BABY
zB was probably the best free forum software at the time. Softwares like myBB or phpBB were probably more advanced, but zB hosted the forum for you. To someone who has zero money (ie most people back in the day who started forums), this was something incredible.
I was an avid user of ZetaBoards almost from the beginning to the end. It's what led me on the road to coding and what I use it for today. The official ZetaBoards support forum still remains the forum I've gained the most posts on; 13K+. I enjoyed my time there and met many neat, interesting people along the way. I had a resource board called Big Boards that had thousands of members and posts. It was fun building that board and pursuing the many projects related to it.
Nowadays, I use Jcink since I find it most similar to the software, and I think Jcink was in need of a quality resource board. ZetaBoards led me on many adventures throughout the years and I've learned so much by being on forums alone.
Nowadays, I use Jcink since I find it most similar to the software, and I think Jcink was in need of a quality resource board. ZetaBoards led me on many adventures throughout the years and I've learned so much by being on forums alone.
NeoMetallix
Reputable
I was with ZB from beginning to end. At the start it was just as good as the paid software like IPB, but being volunteer coded, it fell behind but was still good enough for any one to make a good community.
Tapatalk that bought it out is an ad ridden, privacy nightmare. What a trash service.
Tapatalk that bought it out is an ad ridden, privacy nightmare. What a trash service.
I just got a new phone about a month ago and since it's an Android device, I looked at the passwords saved from Google and my old Galaxy S7. I seen my password for Zetaboards saved and man it made me a bit sad. 🙁
I remember Zetaboards and I greatly miss them being around. It's sad that they were bought out by Tapatalk.
fantanoice
Madly Diligent
I also miss Zetaboards. I was a fan of the user-friendly and modern interface, and ran a pretty successful forum on it before moving to self-hosting. I hate that Tapatalk has poisoned them all.
I think I may have used ZetaBoards a handful of times, but I mainly used InvisionFree to host the forums I ran in my early days of running forums. I appreciated how easy it was to use from the standpoint of a user and an admin, and it was nice to have a free way to run a site to see if things would work out before spending lots of money on hosting for something that ultimately wouldn't work out.
A shame to hear it's gone. I think most sites I knew of that were still around on IF/ZB ended up moving over to Jcink, which has seemed to be relatively easy to use (from a member and admin standpoint) from what little I've used with it. I'd probably use Jcink as my go to hosting service if I were to try and run a forum again in the future.
A shame to hear it's gone. I think most sites I knew of that were still around on IF/ZB ended up moving over to Jcink, which has seemed to be relatively easy to use (from a member and admin standpoint) from what little I've used with it. I'd probably use Jcink as my go to hosting service if I were to try and run a forum again in the future.
Yeah that was a complete nightmare. So many people came forward and offered to take over for him but he ignored them and sold it to Tapacrap.
I have used Zetaboards but as much I remember FreeForum or something like that I miss that
There's not much to miss, he was hardly ever around anyway. He was really involved back when it was InvisionFree, in the first 5 years, then slowly drifted away. He then got semi active again around 2008 with the introduction of ZetaBoards, but never really much.I miss the Zetaboards communities...with the exception of Brandon....
And then when he felt that he needed to sell Zetaboards he came back around. He got greedy, it was at that point he didn't care about the project. I'm sure he never really cared if he wasn't around much to begin with though... Thankfully ForumSpark is like the spiritual successor to Zetaboards!
Spiritual as it may be, we'll never see any slim success compared to back in the days. We have around 75 hosted boards, and I dare not to tell how many are actual communities. But it isn't much.
Times have changed, and people don't get into forums as they used to. I've said this before, but what we're doing is just delaying the inevitable. The sooner people accept that, the better. That said, if you enjoy forums, creating them, discussing on them, by all means continue. But it isn't getting any better than now.
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