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Creating a community for college. Help me decide. - Zeke - Apr 27, 2019
Hey, so I've been wanting to start a community for my uni since a while now. However, I'm unsure about the path I should choose for this.
The idea is to have groups on the community for different clubs, categories and stuff like that. I want people to actually start interacting and involving themselves in the community, so I don't want anything that looks too boring to people that are new to forums and stuff like that.
So the question is: Should I go for a wordpress community template that uses BuddyPress and BBPress (like: http://diaboliquedesign.com/demo/onecommunity-new/ , I like the groups part there looks cool) or should I go for a forum-style site using IP Board (because it has the best looking themes) (theme I like: https://veilon.net/ips/ >> choose Veizor Dark from the footer)
My uni currently has no way for students to interact with each other and this will be a great idea. Getting traction and user base will not be a problem because I have a definite marketing plan for this and also official support from the higher ups. I just want people to stay after they register and involve.
Doubt: Is it possible to create blocks on a forum software for different groups like [url=http://diaboliquedesign.com/demo/onecommunity-new/groups/]here?/url]
RE: Creating a community for college. Help me decide. - kawaii - Apr 28, 2019
With regards to forum software the choices are quite limited.
https://mybb.com/
RE: Creating a community for college. Help me decide. - Nachfolger - Apr 28, 2019
(Apr 28, 2019 07:27 AM)kawaii Wrote: With regards to forum software the choices are quite limited.How are the choices in forum software limited? I disagree entirely.
https://mybb.com/
OP, I say run away from the idea of using something forum based. Go for a open source social network. There's a plethora of them available, all for free. Otherwise, I would say build it from scratch, be original.