[MUD-Dev2] [BIZ] Forum software?

[Michael Chui]

On 7/3/07, Mike Rozak <Mike at mxac.com.au> wrote:
>
> Anyone know any good forum software?
>
> I tried phpbb, came with Yahoo, and ran into two really annoying problems:
> 1) Spam. No matter what settings I tried, including the wavy text to
> create a new account, I couldn't get rid of spam-bots.
> 2) It was a pain to delete the spam since it only deleted one message at a
> time, and each time I had to press Yes/No to verify the deletion.
>
> Basically...
>
> - I need a forum... or other "community management" software.
>
> - I don't want to deal with spam.
>
> - I can host it, but I'm willing to pay a monthly fee for hosting if it's
> easier for me. (It's enough work keeping my game afloat; I don't need to
> worry about a forum crashing on me too.)
>
> - I want to be able to "send to all registered users" with game updates.
> (Or is there a better way?)
>
> - I want users to be able to opt-out of the game update E-mails.
>
> - Anything else I should want?
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks
>

I joined a community, back in November, that uses vBulletin. It looks rather
good.  There's a place where you can post messages for everyone to see. I
don't know how they're trumping spam, but I see precious little of it. The
community does have a team of maybe 15 moderators, though.
Stevepavlina.com/forum

I don't have any admin-side experience with it, but it'd be worth taking a
look to see what you can do.

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-Michael Chui