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Anonymous

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Monday, October 13, 2003 at 6:42 PM

why dont you move this site over to www.ezboard.com, its a much better message board center. check out damnshowboard.tk and ckymb.tk for examples, im not trying to spam, but i needed to put some examples in.

alex endl

  

Cracked

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Monday, October 13, 2003 at 8:18 PM

Coming Soon!

Super Virgin is upgrading this forum.

Cracked

  

Anonymous

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Monday, October 13, 2003 at 8:44 PM

SUPER Virgin now, eh? Wow. What kinds of powers does she have?

ezboards suck, by the way. They're slow and filled with ads. At the very least they ought to go with some other board service with the similar bulletin board layout as ezboards, just not that specific one.

  

Passionate, Passionate Man

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Monday, October 13, 2003 at 9:06 PM

I am totally 100% satisfied with the present state of the forums. There is nothing lacking. I, for one, would hate going to a board with pop-ups/ads. Great work, SV, only change it if YOU want to.

PPM

Passionate, passionate man

  

Silent Virgin

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Monday, October 13, 2003 at 9:34 PM

What specifically do you like about ezboard? (I'm fishing for ideas and feedback, here.)

I do want to change this forum; there are things about it that annoy me. I want logins/passwords, for one. Also, I want a list of "recent posts" on the main page. Tell me what you like about ezboard, and maybe I'll throw that in, too. :-)

Super Virgin

  

jason the First

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Monday, October 13, 2003 at 11:20 PM

I think the selling point for ezboard has always been its price - free.

It's nice to be able to create a profile, have a post count, and customize a picture and sig to go with your posts, but the ads are annoying, it wouldn't be on the dolland.net server, and it feels overused.

(besides, with the global profile they have, all my friends at The Amputee Fetish Corner would know what a sicko I was listening to Loveline ;-))

Jason

  

Tyler

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Monday, October 13, 2003 at 11:32 PM

I agree. EZ board is not the way to go. is is good, but better ways are out there.

I like the layout of this php board:

http://64.119.173.232/forum/

read more about it here:

http://www.phpbb.com/

What is phpBB?
phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customisable open-source bulletin board package. phpBB has a user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful FAQ. Based on the powerful PHP server language and your choice of MySQL, MS-SQL, PostgreSQL or Access/ODBC database servers, phpBB is the ideal free community solution for all web sites.

simple. Not connected to a larger 'ezboard' network, and just works really well!

that or www.phorum.com either one!

Things i'd like are:

Profile creation, including e-mail, name, and # posts.

A FAQ stickied at the top
A 'what was that song' tread stickied
A 'floating threads' format, so that when a topic is responded to, it 'floats' back to the top of the page, so most recently replyed to is at the top of the list. it amkes finding 'new' threads easier.

other thoughts? i remember the Companion before this bassic board. such bad times that was. i'm happy to at least have this one. Any improvement would be appreciated though. login/ pass would be great!

Tyler

Tyler

  

JooJooBee

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Tuesday, October 14, 2003 at 2:56 AM

What about vBulletin? I'm on another board that uses that, and I love it. It's really simple to use.


JooJooBee

  

Anonymous

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Tuesday, October 14, 2003 at 8:13 AM

V Bullitin is good, i've used boards that use it. kinda pricy it seems, but i don't know the $ of the other options. Free is always good. But hopefully whatever we get isn't too pricey.

also, another option is for SV to pay the cost of the board program, then stickey a "If you support my site please help keep it alive" or something at the top. People who enjoy the time and quality SV puts into the companion site can send $5 or whatever they can spare, and hopefully help pay for the message board cost.

I would suggest against this, as it eventualy can turn into someone making a profit off of the show,a product that is not theirs. I'm sure SV would not do this, so i do not worry about that. I just hoep we can finda good, free board program to use.

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Trig

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Tuesday, October 14, 2003 at 8:49 AM

I've always admired Invision Board

It's got your standard board features, plus a calendar (for guest schedules and links), a built in chat feature (that one actually costs money), e-mail protection to keep those spyders from spamming you, a GREAT admin control panel, bad word filters, troll blockers, very customizable PHP/HTML skins, the ability to setup Moderators to help the main Admin for post control, private messages, and search functions. Runs with MySQL and PHP and installs with a wizard.

It's open-source, free, and easy to look at.

Invision Board - it's fantastic hehe

Trig

  

Kevin U.

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Tuesday, October 14, 2003 at 4:48 PM

I quite enjoy the style found at trig's site also; It has the basics like name registration, and its not tooo fancy, but I get the idea that you want to do a custom job on this SV? If thats the way your headed the only thing that would make a huge difference is the name thing... Other than that its all style decisions on your part.

Kevin U.

  

Jake

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Tuesday, October 14, 2003 at 6:09 PM

invision or phpbb are the best free bulletin boards.

Jake

  

NJC

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Tuesday, October 14, 2003 at 6:18 PM

The only thing I would like to see here is the ability to view the threads, so that it's easier to know when new messages have been added.

NJC

  

Anonymous

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Thursday, October 16, 2003 at 10:28 PM

Nothing wrong with this board. I like the differences -- no post count, no sig pics, no handles.
Anonymous, quick, clean.

Morpheus

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