Starting to be impressed by 5.0

[Rivka]

FB clones are great to post random nonsense and allow your members to talk about stuff that falls of the main page quick but none of them offer good mechanism to discuss a subject that keeps resurfacing.
There are plenty of products on the market that are trying to be 90% Social Network 10% Forums but what is very much needed from my user base perspective is 90% with an addition of 10% good social features that 100% forums engines don't offer.

Well put explanation of what i think many many folks are looking for and hoping Vb5 will turn out to be. I know that is very much what I am needing on my Forums i am writing the outline for currently.

[Trevor Hannant]

That's good to hear. If there's any improvements that you or your members feel could make it better, please feel free to report Improvment Requests in our Tracker linked above.

[Deepnoizer]

I have been running community based on SocialEngine for few years now. Due to SE development taking their development focus into totally different direction many of their customers started to looking for alternatives.
I had some of my community members test few engines like PhpFox, BuddyPress, JomSocial and we quickly realized the main problem they have.
None of them are build with a strong forums. FB clones are great to post random nonsense and allow your members to talk about stuff that falls of the main page quick but none of them offer good mechanism to discuss a subject that keeps resurfacing.
There are plenty of products on the market that are trying to be 90% Social Network 10% Forums but what is very much needed from my user base perspective is 90% with an addition of 10% good social features that 100% forums engines don't offer.

Where VB5 is going appears to be close match to what I'm looking for and so far my users are responding very well to beta site.

[soniceffect]

If anyone would like to discuss the merits of more than one Husky forum or the contents of a Google search, then please find another forum for this as this isn't the place.

Back on topic...

To be fair Trevor it was relating to the "facebook taking over" conversation which has been the last few posts of conversation, I think you just caught the end of the conversation m8. However even that I guess isnt the original topic of conversation so fair enough.

[Trevor Hannant]

If anyone would like to discuss the merits of more than one Husky forum or the contents of a Google search, then please find another forum for this as this isn't the place.

Back on topic...

[soniceffect]

Yeah, your probably the only person on the planet with a forum for husky owners so there is no real competition. BTW, the link in your signature does not work.

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LOL!!!

Second link in my sig didnt work your quite right, however thats because it should have been removed and is not my site. The first works fine, I would suggest checking your connection.

As for the "probably the only person on the planet with a forum for husky owners" it may be an idea to check your facts before posting as you are completely incorrect (as stated by Wayne above). In fact if you type husky forum into google all the first page are different siberian husky forums (apart from the aforementioned bike forum).

Lets say for arguements sake however you were correct, that should mean my forum will not be overrun by facebook? Seems to be a bit of a flaw in logic there.

[Wayne Luke]

Yeah, your probably the only person on the planet with a forum for husky owners so there is no real competition. BTW, the link in your signature does not work.

A quick Google search shows 5 forums on the first page of results. 6 if you count the one for Husqvarna vehicles.

[woffie]

Hey there are no other forums or facebook groups in my particular genre who are bigger than the forum I run. If you got problems with facebook, sorry your struggling with it, however believe me not every site is the same. Dont get me wrong facebook has an affect, sure. However it has no worse effect than any other craze. Yahoo chat was a craze, it died. ICQ was a craze, it died. Myspace was a craze, it died. Facebook is a craze, it will die.

Yeah, your probably the only person on the planet with a forum for husky owners so there is no real competition. BTW, the link in your signature does not work.

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Yea, and be replaced by FaceSpace ...

LOL!!!

[In Omnibus]

Facebook is a craze, it will die.

Yea, and be replaced by FaceSpace ...

[soniceffect]

Facebook already has, but lets not let facts get in the way.

Hey there are no other forums or facebook groups in my particular genre who are bigger than the forum I run. If you got problems with facebook, sorry your struggling with it, however believe me not every site is the same. Dont get me wrong facebook has an affect, sure. However it has no worse effect than any other craze. Yahoo chat was a craze, it died. ICQ was a craze, it died. Myspace was a craze, it died. Facebook is a craze, it will die.

[woffie]

Facebook facebook facebook. Of course it will take over forums on the internet, just like myspace did.

Facebook already has, but lets not let facts get in the way.

[soniceffect]

Facebook facebook facebook. Of course it will take over forums on the internet, just like myspace did.

[In Omnibus]

There are valid reasons behind anonymity.

Yes, which is why forums have and always will have a place. Facebook guarantees no such anonymity. I think we're all making the same point from different directions.

[Mark.B]

Anonymity is for people with something to hide, or some reason to hide. While I'm not suggesting people post personal identifying information or photos of their spouses and children, the only people who truly need to hide behind an IP address and an anonymous username such as L33THAX0R are those whose intentions are to spam, troll, flame, bait, or otherwise disrupt the community.

As someone who has suffered at the hands of malicious internet stalkers, I couldn't disagree more. I changed my username on many sites to avoid using my real name. Only last month someone tracked down my 'day job' employers and sent a load of lies and false accusations to them via their website's contact form.

There are valid reasons behind anonymity.

[In Omnibus]

Facebook is actively tweaking its system in order to get group discussions more on topic. I'm certain that facebook will get it right sooner or later.

There are many discussions that people do not want to have archived under their real name. Anonymity is important for everyone. Most people do not want to post discussions about their financials, health issues, love life, addictions, vices, controversial topics, under their real name.

Which would explain the necessity of privacy policies for forums dealing with such discussion topics ...