Vanilla forums free bulletin board

Vanilla forums is a free solution for those wishing to create a bulletin board for their community.  Vanilla forum has some attractive positives, the first being that because it is a relatively new and small community it is not so much targeted by spammers as say, PHPBB.  It also has a very active community of users who are eager to help with any questions that you might have.  Other features include dead simple embedding that allows you to drop it onto your website with minimal HTML knowledge.  It also has importing tools and mobile and plugins capability.  We use vanilla as a staff bulletin board for our tutoring staff.  This allows communication among staff who may not necessarily interact on a daily basis.

Setting up vanilla is relatively easy but you must first gain access to your website server or have your IT do so.  Set up a MYSQL database, upload vanilla files to your server and follow the install directions.  Again, the vanilla community is very helpful and the developers are very open to feature requests.

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