hihosland Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 I am considering hosting a members only bulletin board/discussion group A venue for general discussions and discussion relevant to the politics/ functions of the group concerned I am seeking suggestions for software to enable this. My desires are; members only discussions not visible to non members A member must enroll with own name a member may post with own name A member can also have one alias/username whereby they can post anonymously A member can create a new thread Some threads are "sticky" ie remain at top of list Can post photos max potential membership 300 a likely active membership less than 100 simple enough administration system for me to manage. any and all advice greatly received Many thanks Davidh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PA. Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 I use this www.phpbb.com on the forums I run. It is free and is also easy to setup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbo Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Doesn't this violate Ian's rule? You are basically trying to steal members from this site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hihosland Posted February 3, 2016 Author Share Posted February 3, 2016 Robbo did say " Doesn't this violate Ian's rule? You are basically trying to steal members from this site." AH No. The group in question is not a flying group, but software that would work for a flying club would meet my aspirations. Putting flying in the title was deliberate to assist Ian in keeping the web crawlers convinced that this is an aeronautical site. But a fair criticism by Robbo based on the way I posted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbo Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Robbo did say" Doesn't this violate Ian's rule? You are basically trying to steal members from this site." AH No. The group in question is not a flying group, but software that would work for a flying club would meet my aspirations. Putting flying in the title was deliberate to assist Ian in keeping the web crawlers convinced that this is an aeronautical site. But a fair criticism by Robbo based on the way I posted Maybe I didn't read it properly, from the recent discussion about moving off topic stuff on this forum to another new site by Ian, I got the impression you were trying to do exactly that in competition to Ian. But this is the bit I should have read properly: A venue for general discussionsand discussion relevant to the politics/ functions of the group concerned[/Quote] Apologises... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hihosland Posted February 3, 2016 Author Share Posted February 3, 2016 Accepted and especially the implied fermented beverage or two thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbo Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 PHPBB gets hacked very easily, try VBulletin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pearo Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 I run a small phpbb site, cost next to nothing, never been hacked. I do it for the same reason as davidh. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 If its an aviation club I can set all this up for you here as a club members only forum. If its not, stay away from phpbb and most of the free ones. Stay away from vbulletin unless you know how to code as it is buggy. IPB is still useing ancient technologies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonRamsay Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 Ian's suggestion makes the most sense. Personally, I think everybody should post in your real name. Makes people more responsible for what they write. People here though have mostly demonstrated good fellowship and a mature attitude 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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