Sitelok as base for a Discussion Forum?

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I’m looking for a discussion forum and have checked out Disqus and Muut.

The trouble is they cost, and with the tiny membership numbers I expect on my very specialised site I really don’t want to pay for such service.

Nor do I have the time or experience to start building one from scratch with something like phpBB which has been mentioned in this forum several years ago.

I bought Sitelok some time back, and would plan to use this to manage the membership side of things. I haven’t installed it yet, it and haven’t really checked out its add-ons, but does anyone know if the add-ons include anything I could use as a discussion forum?

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Vanilla Forums will work. There is also a Sitelok plugin for Single Sign On. I have used it in the past, but have not looked recently.

Mark

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There’s a free Vanilla Forums plugin for Sitelok listed on the Vibralogix’ site. https://www.vibralogix.com/sitelokpw/plugins.php

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I’m using a free / Open Source solution in a couple of my sites- it seems to be working fine for both of my clients. https://www.question2answer.org/

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Thank you all very much.
Vanilla Forums is exactly what I want.
For some reason I didn’t pick it up on Vibralogix site.
Probably wouldn’t have recognised it as the solution anyway.
Brilliant support from this RW forum once again.

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Isn’t Vanilla Forums what what this forum used to use and was always full of spam? I dare say that was down to the way people’s credentials were validated.

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That’s true of many forum types. It’s important to understand that unless properly set up and policed, a forum can descend quickly into an ocean of spam. It happened to a client of mine.

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Thanks robbeattie, I wonder whether you can point me to info which will make sure I properly set and and police a forum

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Just visited the Vanilla forum to check out various discussions on spam.
Any other pointers would be very welcome
Thanks again for all the feedback on this

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