Is EZBoard the best?

[ace0]

Is EZboard the best, or do other places have better free message boards?

 

[Coolin]

I find EzBoard to have way too many ads. When I used them, I found http://www.homepageforums.com to be the best. They only had one ad at an unobtrusive spot. I'm not sure what they have no though. Hopefully the same!

 

[ace0]

Well, I don't really care about ads, and I didn't really find the homepagetools forums that interesting-are there any other good ones?

 

[keith]

http://www.forumco.com is an excellent one, but i don't think they're accepting any new free accounts while upgrading.

 

[itsme]

Another options : everyone.net

 

[ace0]

are they any good?

 

[ace0]

no-I don't really like everyone.nets'. I like forumco-if they would re-open.

 

[itsme]

Check this out man http://novogate.efront.com/

 

[itsme]

U could find a whole list in cgi-resources.com. Tell us which one u choose!!

 

[JacklePoP]

Erm...

How's about IkonBoard?

 

[Epgs]

i like ikon board but personally i think PHPBB is the best, i also like vbulletin (the board this place is usin)

 

[cowax]

Re: Erm...

Originally posted by JacklePoP
How's about IkonBoard?

I do believe he's looking for a remotely hosted forum board...

 

[ace0]

Ok-I will try novogate...

 

[ace0]

I think forumco is better-I wish they would reopen.

 

[Hoth]

My favorite is the UltraBoard script hosted by http://www.revamp.net . It's powerful, and they don't display any ads at all to the users.

 

[Coolin]

No ads? How do they survive? And if they go down (which they probably will) you'll be left without all your posts and members!

 

[Hoth]

Originally posted by Coolin
No ads? How do they survive? And if they go down (which they probably will) you'll be left without all your posts and members!

It's actually just a new version of a site that's been around for quite a while. It used to be mach.org, which I'd been using for about a year. Mach.org didn't have the UltraBoard script, though, it only had a wwwboard. There was 1 time about 10 months ago when there was a major problem and all the data was lost, and then another problem about 1 month ago when about a week of data was lost but there were backups restored so that no more than that was lost. The webmaster of mach.org seemed to hate his host, CWI hosting, which was at fault for the problems both times. In switching/upgrading everything to the new site as revamp.net, they switched to a new host, which presumably won't have problems like that. (Hasn't so far.)

Revamp.net isn't likely to disappear, though, since mach.org/revamp.net has been around since August of 1998.

As for how they survive... well, it does show ads to you when you're logging in to customize the scripts, so there's some revenue coming from that. Here's what the site has to say on the about us page:
This site is totally free with no advertisements for several reasons. First, I hate those stupid banner ads; they make my site look bad. Second, we can still almost break even without them. Lastly, I'm just a nice guy.

[Edited by Hoth on 03-17-2001 at 06:41 PM]

 

[Hellbound]

Yeah Hoth!

The voice of reason stands above the voice of oboxious know-it-allness.

 

[Coolin]

With advertising on the internet these days on an all-time low... I'm not sure if they will last with the ads only on the members area.

 

[conkermaniac]

If you're looking for a free message board service, HomePageTools is definitely the best. I really think ezBoard is horrible. Here's a great list I've compiled:

(Please do not complain about the bad layout; I'm not done with the site yet. )

http://freeboards.topcities.com