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British Leyland · Posts: 27 Join date: 2008-12-15 Location: The Grove

I know this message board is a free one, but some of the web banners that appear are a bit dodgy - especially the 'Evony' one (didn't even check the link ..... not at work anyway)

rhodopsin · Posts: 20 Join date: 2009-01-27 Location: Halesowen

British Leyland wrote:

I know this message board is a free one, but some of the web banners that appear are a bit dodgy - especially the 'Evony' one (didn't even check the link ..... not at work anyway)

Yes this could be a problem for the younger league members. The best way to avoid this problem is to pay for the forum or change to a PHPBB3 format.

pprince · Posts: 24 Join date: 2008-12-13 Location: Earslwood

rhodopsin wrote:

British Leyland wrote:

I know this message board is a free one, but some of the web banners that appear are a bit dodgy - especially the 'Evony' one (didn't even check the link ..... not at work anyway)

Yes this could be a problem for the younger league members. The best way to avoid this problem is to pay for the forum or change to a PHPBB3 format.

deja vu!
we had this prob on the last board
I offered a new board, PHPBB + free hosting last season
I was turned down as it was deemed too complicated Shocked

in favour of this

rhodopsin · Posts: 20 Join date: 2009-01-27 Location: Halesowen

pprince wrote:

rhodopsin wrote:

British Leyland wrote:

I know this message board is a free one, but some of the web banners that appear are a bit dodgy - especially the 'Evony' one (didn't even check the link ..... not at work anyway)

Yes this could be a problem for the younger league members. The best way to avoid this problem is to pay for the forum or change to a PHPBB3 format.

deja vu!
we had this prob on the last board
I offered a new board, PHPBB + free hosting last season
I was turned down as it was deemed too complicated Shocked

in favour of this

You can't get a better offer than free.

Andy Jones · Posts: 8 Join date: 2008-12-13

We had the same problem on the Wolverhampton Wheelers Forum last year with unsuitable adverts. http://wolverhamptonwheelers.hostingdelivered.com/index.php

I setup a new one with which is free and has no adverts. I used this company:

http://www.hostingdelivered.com/index.hs

Quite happy to set it up for the league.

Andy

David · Posts: 14 Join date: 2008-12-26

I can host a message board. Do a few clubs at the moment.

Would take a week to set up. Other than that, no ongoing costs or admin.

It would be on my servers so no unwanted ads of any kind.

rhodopsin · Posts: 20 Join date: 2009-01-27 Location: Halesowen

Offers that can not be refused.

In the interest of "protection", a good idea which should not be overlooked or turneddown.

pedalrog · Posts: 1 Join date: 2008-12-13

We at Stourbridge CC can also offer help, if required, we have plenty of website space and spare databases to host a better forum with phpBB3. We (or the league) will have 100% ownership & control, can decide how to present it, customise it, appoint administrators and moderators with whatever permissions are needed. I can set it up quickly, at no cost.
Also, instead of one big message board, it can be split into different topics eg "sales & wants", "championship events", "national 'cross events" etc. to save all users trawling through stufff that is of no interest to them.
You can see ours here as an example - pretty well the same as Wolv. Wheelers: http://www.stourbridgecyclingclub.com/Board/index.php

Roger