Pontoon Boat & Deck Boat Forum

I am thinking of upgrading to a nicer forum software, any ideas? I know that VBulletin is very popular??

MIke,

can't help on versions but i know alot of us use tapatalk on our phones and this one isn't supported.

If you need help let us know $$$$

good to know, I will do some research... I dont need any money, I just want to make sure everyone gets the features we like and use if I upgrade!

another vote for tapatalk

But TapATalk does support PHPBB

http://www.tapatalk.com/index.php

Just for the record, I don't have a preference, as long as its RELIABLE and secure.

When I bought my Tundra, I used http://www.tundrasolutions.com/forums/tundra/ very often..... Then, one day, they upgraded their software. Now, it seems the pages load SO SLOW... Or, maybe because of the HEAVY advertising banners and ads... Not sure why it does that, but it makes it 'not' so good anymore.

I like this type format.... It is simple. There are no ads, no flashing colors, or other things that slow it down.

However, I know that I always type real slow because some people don't read very fast.

We can leave it be, I just see the efforts to keep spammers from signing up and a new forum software might fix that?

I went through I conversion once, I think I mentioned it, vBulletin has many features and add ons, much better than this.

Phbb does too.

We went with vbulletin.

Willing to help if you need it

the forum I now help manage is socalcatfish.com

-bb

spammers was one of the reason we switched, I installed a plugin, and virtually eliminated them,
we will get one every 3 months or so that tries to register but since I manually approve everyone I delete them
-bb

Most message boards I go to use vBulletin.

Mike

blackberg wrote:spammers was one of the reason we switched, I installed a plugin, and virtually eliminated them,
we will get one every 3 months or so that tries to register but since I manually approve everyone I delete them
-bb

Speaking of which, I very much appreciate that you can't use the typical freebie email and whatnot, but once we've been established as real human beings without a spamming agenda, any chance we can switch over and use our other email addresses?

For instance, I had to sign up with my work account email address instead of my personal Gmail account. But, I subscribe to a lot of threads and the notifications get caught in my work spam filter, so I don't always see them.

Any chance of after being established being able to switch back to a different email address?

All you have to do is let one the mods or me know and we can ok any e-mail, I need to put that in a post and stick it on top, I have oked a bunch of free email's when people wrote in they couldn't sign up.

HandymanHerb wrote:All you have to do is let one the mods or me know and we can ok any e-mail, I need to put that in a post and stick it on top, I have oked a bunch of free email's when people wrote in they couldn't sign up.

Oh okay, sorry I didn't realize. Just don't want to miss anything! haha

another thing I do is make their location mandatory,
they either put in their city, region, state, whatever, doesnt matter, as long as it sounds "real" and in the US, everybody else never gets approved
-bb