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Message Board: which one are you using?

Finding a good Forums application is not an easy task. Of course I can develop one myself, but when you are on your own in your company, no way. So until now I used Pop Forums, but it seems that the developer has lost interest in the project, or he's just busy with something else.

An important criteria is the software has to be written for .Net 1.1 or 2.0.

Now I just found an interesting message board development, DMG Forums which seems to be quite up to date, written in .Net (2.0 I think so?). One reason why I like it is its simple user friendly interface. Forums have been too many times reserved for techies, gamers and geeks and not really adapted for 'normal' users.

What Forums software do you use and why?

UPDATE: Seems that CS URL Rewriting don't like the word Forum in title, LOL how I was supposed to know that ;-)

Posted: Oct 02 2006, 07:24 PM by help.net | with 6 comment(s)
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help.net : Message Board: which one are you using? said:

PingBack from http://weblogs.asp.net/pleloup/archive/2006/10/02/Message-Board_3A00_-which-one-are-you-using_3F00_.aspx

# October 2, 2006 2:35 PM

jayson knight said:

Being a CS MVP I am of course totally biased towards Community Server, but even if I wasn't I'd still recommend CS :-).
# October 2, 2006 6:09 PM

Scott said:

Actually, the author of pop forums is working on Pop Forums 8 (asp.net 2.0): http://weblogs.asp.net/jeff/archive/2006/08/30/A-POP-Forums-milestone.aspx He does have a day job though. As for losing interest, it's tough to judge someone who puts a lot of time into an app that has a lot of free competitors and then decides it's not worth spending every waking moment on. Open source and free software has its good points, but helping people pay the bills while they work on it is not one of them. Just thought I'd clear that up. I'm not recommending for or against version 8 as obviously I've never seen it.
# October 2, 2006 7:57 PM

jindar said:

Did you looks at the Forums built into Community Server? http://www.communityserver.org It's 2.0, regularly updated, and has great support.
# October 2, 2006 10:20 PM

vikram said:

Ping back from http://www.vikramlakhotia.com/
# October 3, 2006 12:44 AM

Wimdows.NET said:

As just seen when trying to access Patrick's blog post about Forums.Looks like the CS URL rewrite

# October 3, 2006 6:16 AM