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  1. XuanZhongda

    XuanZhongda Regular Member

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    My personal host of choice! Excellent support team, great themes, just awesome overall. Just. Plain. AWESOME.

    Too bad it isn't really used too much.
     
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    Not a host, a free forum host, 2 very different things. But yes it is the best free forum host in my eyes. I love the themes.
     
  3. XuanZhongda

    XuanZhongda Regular Member

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    Well, yes, thanks for the correction.

    Themes are great, I agree. So much variation, just so much to chose from!
     
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    Personally I'm not a lover of Zetaboards because they ripped out the email notification settings for in-line notifications so you don't know if you have a PM or not unless you actually go and visit the site every 5 mins, etc.
     
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    Haha wow, I think that is something very important, most probably dont even notice that the email notifications are not there.
     
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    Yea, I feel it is a must, although I expect it was removed to avoid too many emails being sent out from their servers. Not even their mass mailing system is the best either...
     
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    Maybe it's just me, but I HATE it when forums constantly send me emails for PM's. Because, I send/receive a large volume of emails everyday. My email inbox is always flooded with those kind of messages.
     
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    I see where you are coming from.
     
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    Yes, but that's why you introduce options to turn things off, not rip out the whole system completely...
     
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    Yea that is also true. Anyways I still think they are good, just could use few improvements.
     
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    XuanZhongda Regular Member

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    ^Improvements such as?
     
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    The biggest I would say is give their users subdomains.
     
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    Sub-Domains and putting back the email notifications would be a good start :)
     
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    I don't like the email notifications either. You could probably find a custom script that would allow that maybe, or is that not possible?
     
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    Nope Zetaboards dosent support that as you would need access to the server.
     
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    Email notifications as in mass emailing to all board members? You can do that in the Admin CP on Zetaboards.

    And there can be a script for just about anything, I've seen a money script (with donation features) done for ZB without requiring a host. It's all done on the board and is very secure. Anything is possible, you just need the right coder.
     
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    not mass mail, PM, topic & forum notifications when you are subscribed to certain sections of forums/topics
     
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    I never got a PM about topic or forum notifications with zetabaords and I have been with them since October last year

    The themes are great and easy to install and the support team are great to
    I love using zetaboards
     
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    You can get PM notifications about topic subscriptions when you buy ZB Premium. You can get email notification of topic subscriptions without it (it's a free feature), I believe. Fiona, try it out on Affinity, it should work. (Before anyone says I'm advertising, she's already a member)
     
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    Its something that should be free, and they are trying to make a few out of a default feature on most forums. Anyways ZB is still nice.
     

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