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The Magical Zoo
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1 - 11-07-2018, 18:55
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I mod a subforum of a greater forum that has a couple thousand unique posters. Nothing big but not super small. We've grown apart from the overall website and people want me to launch a separate forum/website. Being 100% inexperienced in this, can any of you savants recommend any cliffnotes for cheaply and quickly getting something like this off the ground? What kind of hosting do you think I should do? Which forum software? All I care about is having upvotes/downvotes/reaction type things since dumb ppl love them.

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3 - 11-07-2018, 21:29
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4 - 11-07-2018, 21:35
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Go away.
 
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Host should have php and mysql. phpbb for the forum. The phpbb community is pretty good.

You don't need to, but you can play with phpbb locally with wamp, but be prepared to get the VC++ redistributes 9 through 15 and all the updates to get it workable on win 10. Wamp is just a bundle of Apache, mysql and php for windows, there are variants for Linux, (LAMP) and apple (xamp)
 
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SkittleBrew
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Just point them to this site and wash your hands of it.
 
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7 - 11-07-2018, 23:25
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you're going to kill the community, no one migrates

seen this many times back in '06
 
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phpbb and moderators.

New forums get hammered by spammers. if you don't have moderators that are on the job 24/7 it will be about a week before the site is awash in sunglasses, beatz and camgirl ads
 
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There's plug in code for phpbb that requires the first few posts be approved by a moderator. Simple and keeps the bots away. Time limits and capcha's don't work -see TribalWar Forums - Gaming Community but moderator approval works great.
 
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10 - 11-08-2018, 08:55
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i like camgirl ads
 
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A whole forum of random poll questions? Count me in!!1
 
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5 Outstanding Forum Platforms to Set Up an Online Community
 
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The Magical Zoo
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14 - 11-08-2018, 13:52
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Thanks dudes. Hmmm. Migration is something I opposed but is pretty much universally wanted. Not worried about traffic/spam etc, just getting something off the ground.

And ST I'll post my polls as much as I please, damn you.
 
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LawnDart
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If I was setting up a new forum I would put a GEOIP block on the firewall and only let certain countries connect. Basically only US Canada UK Australia and that it. No spam.
 
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Plasmatic
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Yeah, no one in foreign countries has a proxy
 
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17 - 11-09-2018, 01:24
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Yeah, no one in foreign countries has a proxy
the GEOIP DB has proxy addresses also
 
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ArakAtak
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Why not take over the main forum and make the others leave?
Then no one has to change their bookmarks.

Pretty much like this place
 
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