We use the vanilla forums for our more "power-user" support area. It has pretty good spam filtering by using recaptia. My only issue with it is it is still a bit of a moving target, and every time I spend the time to theme it match our site it gets broke in the next version.
On Nov 12, 5:43 am, Dirk Stoop <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Because Google Groups is slowly dropping features – and it wasn't that > great to begin with – we'd like to eventually find a better place to > host this mailing list / online forum. > > I'd like to ask all of you for suggestions about where to go. > > From my point of view (the company's and the moderator's) we'd need at > least the following features: > > - Moderation for posts from new members (there's quite a bit of spam > that would reach the group without this) > - Ways to both view and respond to discussions on the web, as well as > through email > - Ability for members to upload files > > Beyond this it doesn't have to be super powerful, as long as it's easy > for people to join, read and write to it, I think we've met our goals. > > We want this to be a place where people can talk about the app and > related topics, help eachother and exchange experiences. Something > like getsatisfaction.com (emphasis on feature requests, and voting) or > tenderapp.com (emphasis on support tickets, not open discussion) would > definitely not fit the bill. > > Any feedback, either suggestions for a good place or piece of software > to run this on, or about requirements I didn't mention but you think > should be part of the evaluation, is very welcome. > > Thanks! > - Dirk > > the Versions team -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Versions" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/versions?hl=en.
