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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 [...]

8 Reasons NOT to start a forum

There are thousands and thousands of web forums out there. My guess is that if you’re reading this you’re at least thinking of starting one if you haven’t already. We hear about the reasons to start a forum (fun, branding, marketing, etc) but it’s difficult to find information on why you shouldn’t start a [...]

phpBB version 3 gold released

Version 3.0 of phpBB has been released and is available for download. For more information visit the phpBB site.

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Simple Machines 1.1.4 and 1.0.12 Released

The SMF team announced that they have released both the 1.1.4 and 1.0.12 versions of their forum software. Primarily a bug fix release these two releases fix the following issues.
From the SMF site:

* Inline modification of a board which had moderators was not working correctly.
* Stop CDATA blocks breaking preview/quick modify.
* Allow [...]