A forum is a website that allows textual asynchronous communication between users.
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Is a Q&A site a reasonable replacement for a forum for a software product?
I'm building a website for an open source piece of software that revolves around backups and cloning. I was originally going to use phpBB for the forums, but then thought about the possibility of ...
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Are there any references for useful forum categories?
I am involved in setting up a forum/message board site that will be used for client communications and support. I would like to plan the categories/topics that messages will be posted under.
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Should I use pagination in a forum's thread
I am designing a forum with large discussions, with no specific need to order answers. Do I need to implement pagination or should I maintain one unique page per thread?
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“By posting this, you agree to our terms and conditions”
Is it okay to have a "By posting this, you agree to our terms and conditions" (i.e. like 4chan) as opposed to a "I agree to the terms and conditions" checkbox?
I read about automatic agreement to ...
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Pros and cons of this forum main page, with checkboxes?
What are the pros and cons of a discussion forum main page
that works like so:
At the top of the page there's a list of forums and sub forums.
Below the list of forums, there's a list of forum ...
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A better way to display a forum thread
I want to figure out a better ways to make a forum thread easy to read.
Common solutions to this:
A flat thread where every post is sorted by time.
This is easy to understand and easy to display ...
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How wise is it to use a Q&A app AND a forum?
From the research that I have done, a Q&A site (such as this one) is great for support areas of a website. "How do I do ...?" and "What is the best option for ...?" work well with this.
But ...
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Allowing image upload vs linking images
So, I'm developing a forum and I'd like to allow people to attach images to their posts (1 image per post) if they want. Now, I could do this the way Facebook does, that is, if there is a URL in the ...
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Support forum login?
I'm getting ready to release a new software product, and am setting up my support forum. Should I require users to login to post or reply to topics, or not?
I'd like to make it easy for users to ...
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Embedding options in a forum
I'm developing a forum/community site and I was thinking how much embedding options should I give to the users. Until now, it is possible upload images and the URLs in the posts are parsed and ...
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Are 'normal' forums (phpBB, vBulletin) outdated? [closed]
Im currently thinking about how communication and information exchange can be improved over the internet. You can cut it down to two sides: 'Life' chat (e.g. irc) and 'delayed' chat.
With 'delayed' ...
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How can I display forum paging on a mobile UI in a more pleasant way?
I am having a problem trying to find out how to display the page numbers on a forum in a pleasant way.
Please look at the picture below:
As the picture shows, the page numbers appear to the right ...
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When is user authentication really necessary?
Better said, how much harder is to mantain a forum/message-board/community webiste with unauthenticated users and what would be the benefits and disadvantages in comparison to an account-based one?
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My forum has many views and Facebook likes but very few users are actually logging in or posting topics/replies?
I made a forum a month ago for foreigners living in Taiwan: www.taiwantalk.org. The Categories range from doing business in Taiwan to having relationships in Taiwan.
Screenshot:
This month I've ...
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Rating-based discussion site for 2011: digg vs phpbb layout style?
I'm building a rating-based discussion site.
Basically, it consist in a forum were people can create topics and reply to them (and also rate them).
I have approximately 10 topic categories.
I have ...
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Simple design for a phpBB forum [closed]
I'm looking for some examples for a better design of phpBB. I would like to redesign a forum which is targeted to people with a minimal experience with forums. Now the forum isn't working well. No ...
