I want my own forum!

[Space05us]

How do I go about doing that?

No Im not trying to take away from the populous on 'Poly, I want to make a forum so everyone that lives up here (on the north slope of Alaska) can have a common place on the internet where they can meet and have discussions etc. Only problem is that I dont have any coding experience whatsoever and I know zilch about the technical side of forums. Help me out dangit!

[geeslaka]

I wonder how long this thread will last....

[Space05us]

if a mod could lock this thread or delete it that would be cool. I just got help from somewhere else.

[Ben Kenobi]

uQuot

I want to make a forum so everyone that lives up here (on the north slope of Alaska)

Well, obviously you have to include me. I live on the North slope too.

[Solly]

Most creators of forums are useless...they tend to have more forums than posts most of the time. When starting a forum, you want just one forum, not the forty or fifty that only as busy a place as Apolyton can need.

Remember the Off-Topic forum on Poly started off in the Civ2 Discussion forum...

[Heresson]

This thread should be moved to Apolyton-Community.
(then I'm sure an intelligent, serious discussion will start...)

[Solly]

Yeah, then we can have +1.

[:) Smiley]

Originally posted by Boddington's
Most creators of forums are useless...they tend to have more forums than posts most of the time. When starting a forum, you want just one forum, not the forty or fifty that only as busy a place as Apolyton can need.

Remember the Off-Topic forum on Poly started off in the Civ2 Discussion forum...

Wow, when was that?

[Solly]

At the start.

Ming, CDB, Jesse, Jay Bee, Mr Mantequilla, Hoek, Enur, GP, JPetroski...

[Heresson]

Originally posted by Boddington's
Yeah, then we can have +1.

exactly...
It should be moved to AC by moderator, and a +1 compensation should be given.

[LTEC!]

sigh.

https://www.vbulletin.com

[Wraith]

--"How do I go about doing that?"

If you're serious about it, first thing you'll need is a web host with some sort of database support (MySQL, for instance) and PHP support.

Next, you'll need to pick forum software. I've been using phpBB, http://www.phpbb.com/ , which was really easy to install comapred to the last database-based forum I tried to use.

Well, those are the major steps.

Wraith
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate

[TCO]

Originally posted by Boddington's
Most creators of forums are useless...they tend to have more forums than posts most of the time. When starting a forum, you want just one forum, not the forty or fifty that only as busy a place as Apolyton can need.

Remember the Off-Topic forum on Poly started off in the Civ2 Discussion forum...

Very good advice. Now when are you going to update the challenge games. Umm...and only wimps don't like the Pyramids at Deity. I love to churn out the babies.

[TCO]

Originally posted by Boddington's
At the start.

Ming, CDB, Jesse, Jay Bee, Mr Mantequilla, Hoek, Enur, GP, JPetroski...

What the hell was that soup talk about. And what happened to Jesse and Mr. Mantequilla.

[TCO]

You used to still be able to bump a thread or so in Civ2General to get an old OT thread. The mods locked the last couple that I did that with...