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Discussion in 'Computers & Modding' started by HellBoyX1000, Nov 25, 2008.

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  1. HellBoyX1000

    HellBoyX1000 Well-Known Member

    Funny enough...I just started my own gaming forums on Monday. Im 17 and i know absolutely nothin about how a proper forum should be run. If you have any tips...that would be really helpful.

    I'm not advertising but if you wanna check out what is there and what i can do to improve go to

    http://gamingireland.tk

    Yes, I know....Im cheap.

    EDIT://new website: http://popgamerzz.tk

    EDIT2: newer website http://gamesworldforums.tk
     
    HellBoyX1000, Nov 25, 2008
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  2. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    Get a proper domain and proper hosting or no-one will take you seriously. Also get a proper forum, phpBB is complete shit and can be hacked in about 5 minutes.
     
    Loonylion, Nov 25, 2008
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  3. HellBoyX1000

    HellBoyX1000 Well-Known Member

    is this from experience??? jk ;D

    But srly is SMF good or what do you recommend??
     
    HellBoyX1000, Nov 25, 2008
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  4. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    Yes it is, I've hosted a number of them for people and then had to clean up after they got hacked.

    SMF is one of the best free ones, however we are starting to have issues with it due to the number of registered users we have. Having said that, if you get as many users as we have, you should be making enough money from advertisements to afford VBulletin.
     
    Loonylion, Nov 25, 2008
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  5. HellBoyX1000

    HellBoyX1000 Well-Known Member

    This may seem funny but there is a huge number of 3 members on the site and anyways I don't have any money to buy from VBull
     
    HellBoyX1000, Nov 25, 2008
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  6. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    early days yet, once you get proper space and a proper domain (plus a decent forum program such as SMF) if you start getting reasonable numbers of members (i.e in the hundreds) then you can think about adding some ads to make some money from it.
     
    Loonylion, Nov 25, 2008
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  7. HellBoyX1000

    HellBoyX1000 Well-Known Member

    I would like to see the site in the hundreads...
    It'll take time...i probably wont be doin much since I am in my final year at school...exams and what have you

    whats RomU.....tens of thousands???
     
    HellBoyX1000, Nov 25, 2008
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  8. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    442.532 (thats , for none Europeans, so 442 thousand etc) as of this post :)
     
    Loonylion, Nov 25, 2008
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  9. HellBoyX1000

    HellBoyX1000 Well-Known Member

    Thanks for making this a thread....

    em...I will be open to any suggestions that anybody has to improve the site...
     
    HellBoyX1000, Nov 25, 2008
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  10. anandjones

    anandjones Well-Known Member

    You could easily get VBulletin by other ways, but there's no point using it unless you're going to host a proper Forum. I think it was the old phpBB that got hacked easily, however I'm sure you can hack the new version.
     
    anandjones, Nov 27, 2008
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  11. HellBoyX1000

    HellBoyX1000 Well-Known Member

    When you say a "proper forum" What do you mean??? Gaming Ireland isn't :-\
     
    HellBoyX1000, Nov 27, 2008
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  12. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    I think he means one with a purpose other than general discussion and with a large number of members.
     
    Loonylion, Nov 27, 2008
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  13. anandjones

    anandjones Well-Known Member

    Yes that's what I meant.
     
    anandjones, Nov 28, 2008
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  14. HellBoyX1000

    HellBoyX1000 Well-Known Member

    Please note the change in website

    http://popgamerzz.tk
     
    HellBoyX1000, Dec 1, 2008
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  15. Born2killx

    Born2killx Well-Known Member

    "Cause we try a little bit harder"

    I wonder if Seph could sue you for intellectual property rights. ::)
     
    Born2killx, Dec 1, 2008
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  16. Reider

    Reider Modereider

    We had this discussion on IRC earlier. He's using our rankings too. :p
     
    Reider, Dec 1, 2008
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  17. HellBoyX1000

    HellBoyX1000 Well-Known Member

    At least I didn't copy the name word-for-word huh??

    And btw, I just thought up those ranks...except for the first one
     
    HellBoyX1000, Dec 1, 2008
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  18. Almo

    Almo Well-Known Member

    PopGamerzz is Ireland's brand new gaming forums will the best in gaming...

    im not entirely sure that makes sense, I think you may be missing a word.
     
    Almo, Dec 2, 2008
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  19. HellBoyX1000

    HellBoyX1000 Well-Known Member

    I re-read that...I have to remove those words
     
    HellBoyX1000, Dec 2, 2008
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  20. HellBoyX1000

    HellBoyX1000 Well-Known Member

    Question: What can I Add to the site to make it more attractable...

    btw, i know the "portal" page is mucked up....i will (hopefully) fix it
     
    HellBoyX1000, Dec 7, 2008
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