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The title says it all, do you think webartz needs to ship to a different forum software, either phpbb3 or mybb (more preferred) ?

the other open source forum systems are more popular these days and i guess it would help us gain members who hate forumotion software as well.

cons : Decent amount needs to be paid for the hosting.

my forum is on forumotion(in my sig)once i tried to move it then i lost 30 members online in 48 hours now i have only 8 users logging on a daily basis so swiyching host specially from a free host can be a risk of losing users then i moved back to forumotion slowing building the members & Activity backup again(i learnt by my mistake)

I don't like forumotion software to be honest the security is terrible like Aashik said earlier. Out of the ones listed I would feel myBB would be the better upgrade than phpbb3, but besides that I don't feel we should ship.

Like Spud said above I have had experience where you move to a new host and the members can't adjust. It doesn't usually end up well and you lose much of your activity.

i think you should use smf. There vbulletin ran. you can add cusom templates and your own designs. Thats what i have been using for my website. you can add chat,forums,custom pages,FAQ and more.

-MS

SMF has a 5 star rating on Forum Software Reviews. In fact recently I had thought about building a forum with SMF 2 lol.

Spoiler:

This isn't advertising but the full review is here: http://www.forum-software.org/simple-machines-2/review

Thanks Dawn

I have made some Smf forums if you would like a sample. They have no ads, No Host links. So you dont have to pay to have it Removed. You can also install a arcade,chat and more!.

-mS

MrShawniee wrote:Thanks Dawn

I have made some Smf forums if you would like a sample. They have no ads, No Host links. So you dont have to pay to have it Removed. You can also install a arcade,chat and more!.

-mS

You can pm me the links and I'll take a look when I have some time. Thanks a lot.

I agree the suggestions given now. Most of us would be happy if will be shipping to other forum software

I was just wondering, has the staff made a decision whether or not they would stay with Forumotion?

Agent24 wrote:I was just wondering, has the staff made a decision whether or not they would stay with Forumotion?

I am wondering the same. What is the staff considering for this suggestion?

Waiting for the final decision

Still no answer?

If there is no answer from the admins if they rejected or accepted it, then it's still pending or they haven't decided of it yet.

Well yeah, but they could respond giving what they feel about the idea. Just like some other suggestion threads.

At this current time, I would say no. We have very little active members, so the forum would only end up with around 10/20 members.

Also, the cost of hosting would then need to be found and with around of you only been between the age of 13 and 16, none of you can make a considerable donation towards it. As far as the cheap $10 hosting company, they really not worth it. The down down exceeds the up time and that time is possible registrations. Hence why I now pay $750/pm for my clients websites (Media Temple). However I am getting the revenue that I'm spending back, I take the cost of the hosting and divide it between the amount of clients that I have with hosted sites and the each pay that amount a month.

However the main problem is, the younger the members are the more the older are deterred. Now this is not a dig, it's just a simple fact. At the moment forums are really not the best thing, something like a simple blog is much better and you can control the content and receive better revenue through many descent add company like Carbon Ads, there ad's are really basic and can receive descent styling, unlike google ads.

The only way to gain visitors is to post descent content, without that, A forum/blog/website is nothing.

RockerMan wrote:Also, the cost of hosting would then need to be found and with around of you only been between the age of 13 and 16, none of you can make a considerable donation towards it. As far as the cheap $10 hosting company, they really not worth it. The down down exceeds the up time and that time is possible registrations. Hence why I now pay $750/pm for my clients websites (Media Temple). However I am getting the revenue that I'm spending back, I take the cost of the hosting and divide it between the amount of clients that I have with hosted sites and the each pay that amount a month.

I'm just going to say in response to that...I use a hosting site that costs very little money and they have had only one down time when they were switching servers. I have been using them for about 6 months now and I know other customers that are very happy with the site. You can get way cheaper hosting for a lot less than $750 a month.

We had already thought about this. Currently, our userbase & features have not grown to a extent wherein we need to shift from Forumotion.

We have lot of credits already in our account for Forumotion & have the ability to use them when required when new features are added.

Agent24 wrote:

RockerMan wrote:Also, the cost of hosting would then need to be found and with around of you only been between the age of 13 and 16, none of you can make a considerable donation towards it. As far as the cheap $10 hosting company, they really not worth it. The down down exceeds the up time and that time is possible registrations. Hence why I now pay $750/pm for my clients websites (Media Temple). However I am getting the revenue that I'm spending back, I take the cost of the hosting and divide it between the amount of clients that I have with hosted sites and the each pay that amount a month.

I'm just going to say in response to that...I use a hosting site that costs very little money and they have had only one down time when they were switching servers. I have been using them for about 6 months now and I know other customers that are very happy with the site. You can get way cheaper hosting for a lot less than $750 a month.

I never said that you to pay $750/pm, thats what I pay for a descent server to host around 50 sites. If you want very best performace and the least downtime you need VPS, not shared. Simples!

After a few years with forumotion i decide to pay for my own thinking it would be cheaper becasue i was paying like £50 a year to remove the ads, I went with godaddy for around the same price but the server i was on couldn't handle it the amount of taffic i was getting, so i had to buy a VPS server for £300 a year but i do not think that would of last me for very long, But after a few issues i decide to close the hole forum down and had a rest for a year.

paying 2 a month your forum would be very slow & the bills can be huge if your forum get bigs and the only way of keeping it going is covering your forum with ads or ask money from your members but there not many people really to donate.

RockerMan wrote:I never said that you to pay $750/pm, thats what I pay for a descent server to host around 50 sites. If you want very best performace and the least downtime you need VPS, not shared. Simples!

Oh oops, I misread that. But yes, that is why I don't own a hosting site. I don't really get what you just said

I voted no because like Sanket said, they thought about it and decided to hold back. I am a massive fan of vBulletin myself, but it costs a lot ($195), plus about $30/m. Then you need to find good hosting. Might I recommend Large Servers for a reliable host?