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By: Friendly Atheist » The Friendly Atheist Forum is Live!

Friendly Atheist » The Friendly Atheist Forum is Live! — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 22:17:29 +0000

[...] asked for it, you got [...]

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 06:46:27 +0000

I can moderate if you need more people. I moderated a forum with 32K members before. However, it also depends on how much time you need for the moderators to fill. Let me know.

Thanks.

I do think that it would be worth it to open a donation and buy either vBulletin or IPB. I’ve moderated the latter, but the former is really good.

By: Friendly Atheist » Message Board Is Almost Ready To Go…

Friendly Atheist » Message Board Is Almost Ready To Go… — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 06:34:28 +0000

[...] decided to go with phpBB for the message board. Thanks for all your [...]

By: Friendly Atheist » Message Board Update

Friendly Atheist » Message Board Update — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:01:13 +0000

[...] to everyone for their comments and emails regarding the message board. I’ll look them over as soon as I can and see what we can do! Share This Popularity: unranked [...]

By: Bjorn Watland

Bjorn Watland — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:08:51 +0000

I have a defunct site, atheistsanonymous.org, which could host a forum. There are no ads or anything. It was supposed to be for atheist group organizers, but there are so few of those.

By: cautious

cautious — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:27:21 +0000

(thinks about pointing at former forum at otmatheist.com) (shuts up instead) (thinks better against shutting up completely, points at the formerly-used forum)

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:16:31 +0000

As an experiment, I just crated a forum as part of my blog. It was real easy. Just do the following steps:

1. create a sub domain to friendlyatheist.com. For example, you could make it http://forum.friendlyatheist.com

2. then install phpbb2 (or your forum software of choice) in the sub domain. If your hosting provider has fantastico, then it only takes a few mouse-clicks.

3. then there is probably a bit of configuration necessary… I haven’t looked into that part.

You can get a feeling of what the default installation of phpbb looks like by browsing to http://forum.religiouscomics.net

Good luck!!!

By: I like tea

I like tea — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:00:12 +0000

I, for one, would love to see a forum on this site.

By: Jason C. Romero

Jason C. Romero — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:35:56 +0000

So interesting to see this. I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how to incorporate a blog with a message board, precisely for this reason.

Right now I am leaning towards using WordPress (that’s what you’re using right?), bbPress, and bbSync.

By: Alphager

Alphager — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:34:33 +0000

The easiest to use would probably be phpbb, as your server allready has all prerequisites (apache, php, mysql). Your webguy should be able to install it without problems.