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İf you are not offerring any warez programmes , games or porn it is very hard to stay and get visitors for your forum. i am trying but unfortunately i couldn't succeed...But still i am not offering any of illegal materials...

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Installing a forum isn't that hard, but it is hard to maintain it and attract visitors. I found forum is a very good way to increase the content of your site, and it also help you to get promoted by search engines if you have a busy forum wich is maintained well. But it is really hard to maintain it especially hard to fight the spammers. I have even closed one very well running PHPBB forum due to spammers.

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After using the Xisto forums for many months, I thought I would attempt to have one of my own... Little did I know, that I didn't have, well, any following what so ever.... I tried to just make it private and link it onto my site. I didn't really want to go and throw it out into the WWW without really having a few people on it and making it active.I had two people come in and say a few things, my wife and my sister! And they were happy and bias! So, I don't know if I will scrap it, it doesn't cost me anything, because I just went to invisionfree forums... Oddly enough, it seems like Xisto format, but I wonder if forums are just like myspace layouts: typical to default setups, and everything follows suit, and it is up to the moderator to make it look a bit different from the next forum.I enjoy(ed) creating many different icons and banners for it, but it has 0 traffic, and I can't even make myself content enough to keep adding to it... maybe I will just try again later after rethinking how it will look and feel.... and not try to be so 'that shouldn't go with my forum' feel, or I will not have any forum left to look at.

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If you would reccomend some forum software to someone, which one would it be?Im just wondering, there are soo much out there, free ones, paid ones... I would preferably install one on my web at final-design.net, currently im running some small forums there, but a solution with more options would be needed soon... so any suggestions?

i would suggest smf(simple machine forum) becaus its open source and you can change the code.

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I would prefer learning PHP/SQL and some advanced CSS/HTML and coding your own :o that's the best thing to do :D because you'll have full knowledge about it, and it is fun coding it :mellow:

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I have tried a few different forums myself. I even have one installed through Xisto, too. But I just can't sit down and really customize it to my liking... and I don't really think it will catch on for my site. It is a family site, and I am trying to not make such boring stuff in them. I have my sister and my wife... and a few of their friends. It is just not as much fun as I was planning, so I will just try it again later.I know that I can keep up with Xisto and it's forums, because it is a site with a purpose. I am here to keep my hosting, and I can find TONS of topics to post in. I just try to keep it current.So I will probably try it again sometime, and I will be following this site to see if there are better and more popular ones to be a part of.- skedad -

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