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How important is design to the success of a forum?

How important do you think design is to the success of a forum?  It’s an extremely popular topic on web design forums.  Content or design?  Which has the bigger effect on the success of a forum?
I don’t think anyone would argue that a forum can succeed without good content, but how big of a part [...]

bbPress 0.9 Released

The bbPress folks have released version 0.9 of their forum software.
It looks like the primary reason for the upgrade is so that those that have integrated bbPress and WordPress can upgrade to WordPress 2.5. There are also several new features including an installer, more RSS feeds, and Gravatar support. The bbPress [...]

When to start a forum?

This is a question for those of y’all that visit here. When is it time to add a forum to a site? Ultimately I want to have a forum here at ForumsBlogsWikis, but I know that right now there isn’t enough traffic to support a forum. So for those of you that [...]

5 Tips For Picking a Forum Topic

So you’re ready to start up a new forum, but have no idea for what the topic needs to be. Here are 5 tips for selecting a topic.
1 - What are your interests?

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Inserting AddThis.com widget in Simple Machines Forum

After finding the AddThis.com bookmarking widget and installing the WordPress plugin here I decided I needed to add the widget to my photography forum.
What I wanted to make sure would happen is that if a visitor bookmarks a page they bookmark the first page in the thread instead of bookmarking a later page in a [...]