Something happened on the way to the Forum

Eagle-eyed readers may have noticed a new link in the sidebar – The New Wolfs Howl Forum.

This is something that I played about with before, when I was just starting out with my WordPress.com blog. At the time, I used a free service at freeforums.org. I’d been a fairly heavy user of Teh Soapbox and I wanted to see how easy it was to set up a forum that used PhpBB. As I didn’t have any hosting available, I went with a multi-user service.

It was easy to set up and administer, but once that was done it just sat there. I didn’t visit very often and nor did anyone else. Eventually I disabled it.

But now that I’m all self-hosted, I thought that I’d have another go – especially as a new version of PhPBB has just been released; version 3.0 is a much improved experience both from a forum user and forum administrator point of view. I’ve set up various categories and subjects and it’s all ready for some visitors. Take a look and let me know what you think and feel free to start a topic, comment on the couple of topics that have already been started, or just laugh at the amateurish way I’ve gone about it!

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3 Responses to Something happened on the way to the Forum

  1. What a great idea. I joined. :)

  2. timethief says:

    Will do.

    [Wolfie edit: I've removed a smiley from this comment, because for some reason they really screw up the way the comment is displayed]