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[dantak]

Hey ppl,

I would just like to let everyone know that I wouldn't choose Forumer. Those guys screw around with you and have constant problems. I would choose InvisionFree overall. They have a much beter reliability than Forumer. Forumer has so many problems its not funny...stay away!

[.shane]

I'm really sorry you feel this way about Forumer's free IPB hosting service. However, I would like to voucher that I have a lot of experience with Forumer. I have used them for several months, and truely believe that they're by far, the best free IPB hosting provider on the planet.

The main thing that makes them better than the aforementioned "InvisionFree" hosting service, is the fact that Forumer does not have those really annoying, flashy, Google banner ads on the board. Honestly, those ads will make any board look very un-professional.

Here's just a few more reasons why Forumer is a better service than the competitors:

1.) Completely banner, and advertisement free.

2.) A cleaner, more professional URL for your board.

Instead of, "http://s7.invisionfree.com/example", you get several domains, and subdomains to choose from.

------------/forum
forum.------------
forum.999.org
forum.tt.cx

All I can say though, is that if you're in the market of looking for a free IPB forum hosting service, don't look any further than Forumer Free IPB Hosting. (http://------------)

[TheAce]

In addition to what Shane has stated above, I'd like to add that ------------ doest have any bandwidth limitations or Disk Space Qoutas to it's accounts like most other free forums hosts has. If you create a Forums Board at Forumer then the allocated disk space for your board is limitless.
I can say it is much better than all other forums providers As I have tried most other host including Invision free before joining Forumer and no one offers the features Forumer offers for free.

[dantak]

Well, before I go trusting you ppl, please remove your faulty advertising.

Under your FAQ (http://www.------------/faq.html) page, you state:


What makes ------------ different from other free forum hosts? You have FULL control over your board. No options are disabled.


Please, lets tell some truth. InvisionFree has some really cool features, and you promote lies. If I see some improvement, sure, I will choose you all. No MySQL backups? No skins? No nothing it seems.

Lets see some real stuff before I choose Forumer.....

[.shane]

Please, lets tell some truth. InvisionFree has some really cool features, and you promote lies. If I see some improvement, sure, I will choose you all. No MySQL backups? No skins? No nothing it seems.

Lets see some real stuff before I choose Forumer.....
Forumer makes backups of your boards for purposes in case of server crashes, and the like. The only thing they don't do is give the backups to the members though. In fact, I don't know of any free forum service that does that. As for skins, I don't know of any other service that allows you to upload skins either, because you would need FTP access to do this. Most free forum providers do NOT give you FTP access to your board's directory. In fact, unlike most providers, Forumer actually has about 15 pre-installed skins that you can choose from, and import to your board with a single click from within the Admin CP. Aside from that fact, you can totally skin your board by using the CSS Stylesheet, and by changing the images.

Honestly, there really isn't anything that you can't do with your board. So Forumer is not doing any false advertising, as you wrongly accused them of in your previous post.

[TheAce]

Well, before I go trusting you ppl, please remove your faulty advertising.


Under your FAQ (http://www.------------/faq.html) page, you state:



Please, lets tell some truth. InvisionFree has some really cool features, and you promote lies. If I see some improvement, sure, I will choose you all. No MySQL backups?No skins?No nothing it seems.

Lets see some real stuff before I choose Forumer.....

well lets take that one at time.


InvisionFree has some really cool features
The ACP of InvisionFree has no special feature that the ACP of Forumer doesnt have. If you a member at both places then do a comparision yourself.


No MySQL backups?
InvisionFree doesnt give mySQL backups either. Virtually none of the free forums hosting sites give away SQL backups.


No skins?
IvisionFree doest offer even 1 pre made skin.
They only offer some of the Board Wrappers, The images and the CCS.

Forumer offers 15 pre made skins, The Images, CCS and the HTML templates. which makes boards at Forumer much more customizable.



No nothing it seems.
Nothing that validates your statements anyway :D

InvisionFree has a 16MB Disk limit where as Forumer doesnt have any limit.
InvisionFree has ads and you need to pay to get rid if those where as Forumer doest have any ads.

[dantak]

You still have not justified your reasons on the faulty advertising. I registered a free forum and many options were disabled. I don't care what you are told to say. Can you actually support ------------ if you all wasn't a moderator there? I looked at the support forums the other day, I saw that you guys were a moderator there. Would you want me to give you a breakdown of a ------------ compared to InvisionFree, then compare them both to the complete version from Invision Power Services? That will show you ppl the difference. You all don't even inform us of your updates, you let us go months without even knowing what you all are doing.

[DarkBlood]

Forumer makes backups of your boards for purposes in case of server crashes, and the like. The only thing they don't do is give the backups to the members though. In fact, I don't know of any free forum service that does that. As for skins, I don't know of any other service that allows you to upload skins either, because you would need FTP access to do this. Most free forum providers do NOT give you FTP access to your board's directory. In fact, unlike most providers, Forumer actually has about 15 pre-installed skins that you can choose from, and import to your board with a single click from within the Admin CP. Aside from that fact, you can totally skin your board by using the CSS Stylesheet, and by changing the images.

Honestly, there really isn't anything that you can't do with your board. So Forumer is not doing any false advertising, as you wrongly accused them of in your previous post.

You are mistaken my friend, EXOCrew had a file manager; but now BBFree has the advantage where you can send your files to the support crew, and they upload them for you; you just have to tell them where they go.

[.shane]

Can you actually support ------------ if you all wasn't a moderator there?
Yes, as a matter of fact, I would support them if I wasn't a moderator. I have always supported Forumer ever since I found their web site online.



Would you want me to give you a breakdown of a ------------ compared to InvisionFree, then compare them both to the complete version from Invision Power Services? That will show you ppl the difference. You all don't even inform us of your updates, you let us go months without even knowing what you all are doing.
That wouldn't be necessary. I probably know more about the full version of IPB than you anyway. I've got a domain, and a registered version of IPB that I have been using for several months. I'm running IPB 2.0, but I've got plenty of experience with 1.3, and the Forumer version as well. Honestly, I even used InvisionFree for a couple months before I had even heard of Forumer. But once I found out, I made the switch in a heart-beat.

[TheAce]

You still have not justified your reasons on the faulty advertising. I registered a free forum and many options were disabled. I don't care what you are told to say. Can you actually support ------------ if you all wasn't a moderator there? I looked at the support forums the other day, I saw that you guys were a moderator there. Would you want me to give you a breakdown of a ------------ compared to InvisionFree, then compare them both to the complete version from Invision Power Services? That will show you ppl the difference. You all don't even inform us of your updates, you let us go months without even knowing what you all are doing.

The Disabled features of IPB original are
1. The IPB enhancements (IP Chat,IP hosting, IP registration & IP Copyright removal)
these are not available in Invisionfree, Forumer and just about every other free forums hosting site that offers IPB.

2. In the General Configurations - Upload URL & path to Upload URL
these are not available in Invisionfree, Forumer and just about every other free forums hosting site that offers IPB.

3. Skins & templates - The facility to Upload a skin
these are not available in Invisionfree, Forumer and just about every other free forums hosting site that offers IPB.

4 Skins & templates - Board Wrappers
these are not available in Forumer and some of the Wrappers are available at InvisionFree. This is about the only difference in the 2 where InvisionFree provides something which Forumer doest.

5. SQL management
these are not available in Invisionfree, Forumer and just about every other free forums hosting site that offers IPB.

6. IP Dynamic Lite
Both InvisionFree and Forumer doest give you the option to set the IPDL as the startup page.


Can you actually support ------------ if you all wasn't a moderator there? I looked at the support forums the other day, I saw that you guys were a moderator there.
I have been supporting Forumer long before I became a mod. Its because I was giving support that the admin there asked me to join the Mod team.


Would you want me to give you a breakdown of a ------------ compared to InvisionFree, then compare them both to the complete version from Invision Power Services?
Be my guest. I have been using IPB since version 1.2 (now using version 2). Lets see what major features I have missed that InvisionFree has and forumer does not.

You all don't even inform us of your updates, you let us go months without even knowing what you all are doing.
When ever there are new updates (usually the opening of a new server), its given in the Forumer site as well as in the support forums. Just because you failed to read either place does not mean they havent given out the updates.

Once again I would like to remind you that I chose Forumer over InvisionFree. Ever since 2 of my Forums boards got completly crashed and another Forums board owned by a friend of mine (where I was admin) got reset (lost all the posts, members, Skin & the few files that were uploaded), I decided it was time to look for a much more stable forums host and in ------------ I found it.

[dantak]

Shane, I doubt that you know more about forums or hosting than I. I am highly experienced in working with forums and creating websites. My experience spans 7 years. InvisionFree offers much more than what ------------ has provided us with. DarkBlood has provided exceptional comments. Forumer fails in informing their users on maintenance, lack of support, and most of all...lack of features. InvisionFree, however, keeps providing users with great features, and has exceptional support. Forumer has many features disabled. I don't think that you are quite aware how InvisionFree has very few features disabled. Forumer has constant server problems. While everyone experiences sever problems, Forumer always has problems with them. Forumer also has several bugs. Their service is horrible.

[HarshY]

------------ = :shame: :shame:

they closed my forum why it was like 25,00+ members & 85,000+ posts also they have a big banner like link on bottom. like all the cool feaures are disabled. please do not use forumer

use -

invisionfree.com or www.forumat.com instead

[.shane]

------------ = :shame: :shame:

they closed my forum why it was like 25,00+ members & 85,000+ posts also they have a big banner like link on bottom. like all the cool feaures are disabled. please do not use forumer

use -

invisionfree.com or www.forumat.com instead
If your forum got closed, or shutdown, it was because YOU broke the TOS that YOU AGREED TO when you signed up for your board. That's beyond my control. If you break the TOS somewhere, you can't expect to get away with it, and you can't blame us for that.

Also, that small Forumer link at the bottom of their forms is not very big. It's much smaller than those annoying-a$$ Google ads that InvisionFree, and a lot of other forum hosts use. The reason those forum hosts place those ads there, is because they're greedy, and wish to make profit out the wazoo with their forums. However, with Forumer, that is not the case. We don't make money by placing intrusive ads on the board. We provide don't provide it to make profit. We provide it because we want to provide everyone with a place to come and create a FREE online community.

[.shane]

InvisionFree offers much more than what ------------ has provided us with. DarkBlood has provided exceptional comments. Forumer fails in informing their users on maintenance, lack of support, and most of all...lack of features. InvisionFree, however, keeps providing users with great features, and has exceptional support.
How do we "lack in support"? :mad2:



Forumer has many features disabled. I don't think that you are quite aware how InvisionFree has very few features disabled.
Actually, I am. Like I said, I know what features a full-blown version of IPB have....not much more than Forumer offers.

Did you even read the post before yours, where TheAce pretty much summed that all up? He's right you know. :shame:

[Psan]

I must say the "small Forumer link at the bottom" is bigger then most adsense ads. And that is a banner. So to say "banner-less" hosting is incorrect.

[TheAce]

Shane, I doubt that you know more about forums or hosting than I. I am highly experienced in working with forums and creating websites. My experience spans 7 years. InvisionFree offers much more than what ------------ has provided us with. DarkBlood has provided exceptional comments. Forumer fails in informing their users on maintenance, lack of support, and most of all...lack of features. InvisionFree, however, keeps providing users with great features, and has exceptional support. Forumer has many features disabled. I don't think that you are quite aware how InvisionFree has very few features disabled. Forumer has constant server problems. While everyone experiences sever problems, Forumer always has problems with them. Forumer also has several bugs. Their service is horrible.

You're yet to show us what great features Invision has that Forumer does not. You keep repeating that but you dont bring out any facts to prove it. Invision's Exceptional support failed to save even one of my boards that got crashed nor did thay explain why my friend's board got reset.

[TheAce]

------------ = :shame: :shame:

they closed my forum why it was like 25,00+ members & 85,000+ posts also they have a big banner like link on bottom. like all the cool feaures are disabled. please do not use forumer

use -

invisionfree.com or www.forumat.com instead
Obviously you broke the TOS and that lead to your forums board getting deleted.
What are these cool features that forumer has disabled but that is available with InvisionFree ?
You cannot compare InvisionFree or Forumer with Forumat as what they offer is free web hosting much like 100webspace or Shyper or Tripod.

[TheAce]

I must say the "small Forumer link at the bottom" is bigger then most adsense ads. And that is a banner. So to say "banner-less" hosting is incorrect.

This is the Google Ads code in InvisionFree


<div style="border:1px solid #C2CFDF; background-color: #F0F5FA;text-align: center;margin-bottom: 10px;"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-2404175891811072";
google_alternate_ad_url = "";
google_ad_width = 728;
google_ad_height = 90;
google_ad_format = "728x90_as";
google_ad_channel ="0878831272";
google_color_border = "F0F5FA";
google_color_bg = "F0F5FA";
google_color_link = "000000";
google_color_url = "000000";
google_color_text = "434951";
//--></script>

The size of the Ad box is 728x90

This is the code of the ------------ 'Banner' at the bottom of each forums page



<table width="499" border="1" align="center" cellpadding="7" class="row4">

<tr>
<td width="37%" align="center" valign="top"><b><a href="http://www.------------" target="new">------------</a></b> -
Free <b>banner-less</b> Forum Hosting<br />
Create your own now! Spread the word! </td>
</tr>
<!--<div align="right"><a href="http://www.------------/advertise.php">Advertise Here</a></div>-->

</table>

its a box of 499x 2 lines (around 40 pix) so we can take it as a box of 499x40

so which one is smaller ?

[forumhosting]

Greetings everyone,
These guys that are coming here to bad-mouth ------------ are merely some other "forum providers" who want to try to promote their services by putting down another.

Anybody that has half a brain can see through their dirty techniques!

I wouldn't be surprised if these are all the same person or friends.

This kind of troll-like activity is not uncommon nowadays. :tired2:



I will just say this to the normal individuals who might be reading this thread:

------------ has grown to become one of the largest forum hosts on the internet. We are a completely free. We do no bombard with banners or popups.
Our services utilize 6 servers and we get filled up very quickly. Usually we have a few thousand people on the waiting list once we release new servers into production.
We are not here to convince anyone of anything, nor we are here to say this is better than the other....etc. We have MORE THAN ENOUGH people signing up through positive word-of-mouth. (current stats: over 20,000 active forums, over 4 million posts and over 370,000 members)

I would also like to note that InvisionFree is another good service ran by some good people. As for some of the other hosts you mentioned, I cannot comment on and cannot give any positive word on. There are hundreds of other forum hosts out there, enough to satisfy any tastes!


So, to sum this up,
I would like to ask the trolls to stop this kind of immature behavior. And to the ones that came here to put in their own 2 positive cents, thank you!

Forumer’s support forum can be found here: http://support.------------
Registration is currently open (as of October 30th). To create a new forum go to http://www.------------ (if at a later date you try to open a forum, but the registration is closed, that usually means that our server has filled up and a new server is being prepared. Get on the waiting list and you’ll be notified automatically once registration is open.


P.S.: On another interesting topic -- over 11,000 people have voted on our home page. 62% of them chose John Kerry for president. (Let’s see if Forumer’s poll will be the correct indicator of the outcome for the upcoming 2004 elections! lol)

- Limez
- ------------ > Free Forum Hosting

[.shane]

P.S.: On another interesting topic -- over 11,000 people have voted on our home page. 62% of them chose John Kerry for president. (Let’s see if Forumer’s poll will be the correct indicator of the outcome for the upcoming 2004 elections! lol)
Hopefully it is correct. :D

[dantak]

forumhosting-

I don't think you know how to run ------------, that's why InvisionFree is beating you every single time. Do you even inform users on the support forums? Whats wrong "Limez", you can't take any criticism? Open your eyes to see that your service is faulty, your servers are unreliable, and many options are disabled on the AdminCP. Unfortunately, people are blinded by their own glory to see how bad their service really is. Learn how to run a service. InvisionFree is the best!

[forumhosting]

dantak,

You're a TROLL and your parasitic repetitiveness is boring already. Read my post above and move on with your life.

Moderators, this thread needs to be closed.

[HarshY]

forumhosting-

I don't think you know how to run ------------, that's why InvisionFree is beating you every single time. Do you even inform users on the support forums? Whats wrong "Limez", you can't take any criticism? Open your eyes to see that your service is faulty, your servers are unreliable, and many options are disabled on the AdminCP. Unfortunately, people are blinded by their own glory to see how bad their service really is. Learn how to run a service. InvisionFree is the best!

Nuff said. a community of loosers.

[TheAce]

forumhosting-


I don't think you know how to run ------------, that's why InvisionFree is beating you every single time. Do you even inform users on the support forums? Whats wrong "Limez", you can't take any criticism? Open your eyes to see that your service is faulty, your servers are unreliable, and many options are disabled on the AdminCP. Unfortunately, people are blinded by their own glory to see how bad their service really is. Learn how to run a service. InvisionFree is the best!

Oh dear! you're still yapping without providing any facts to back your fantasies.
Show that you have spine in there somewhere and give some evidence to prove that you're right.
If you cant do that then your own actions condemns both your self and Invisionfree (even though they dont deserve such harsh action). Go get a life man.