Lefora: Free Forums, Well Done

March 22nd, 2008 (8:00am) Mike Gunderloy 3 CommentsTweet This

There are lots of ways to facilitate group discussions on the web. We have multi-person video services, wikis, project management tools, any number of social networks, and even good old-fashioned email. But sometimes, the sweet spot is a forum. Anyone who has tried to set up a simple forum, though, knows that most software to handle this is a big nuisance to configure. Lefora goes a long way to change this by offering free, hosted forums with an attractive look and a good feature set.

It took me less than five minutes to set up a new forum on their site. Features include membership and moderation, embedded images and videos, gravatar support, spam-blocking, member voting, threaded comments, customizable look and feel, and search, among other things. The next time your work leads you into the need for a quick ad-hoc discussion site, they’re well worth a look.

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Comments (3)

I like seeing this shift to simplicity in handling group discussion.

Has anyone tried Convos? RIA for managing online groups that looks pretty promising.

Jay — 1:07 PM on March 22, 2008 Reply
This is great to know about. Very helpful. Thanks so much for posting on it.

Deidre Sullivan — 7:59 AM on March 23, 2008 Reply
Hi!
If you want to create a free forum, you can you a free hosting system.
I know the Forums-Free service: make forum
I have one and it’s very good! It’s phpBB3 and have 1GB of space for files. Chatbox and other things..

Maxmore — 6:35 PM on August 16, 2008 Reply