ProBoards.com
Title
ProBoards
- Subtitle: Free Remotely Hosted Message Boards
Description
ProBoards is one of the largest websites on the internet, and the largest free message board host, competiting against EZBoard.com. ProBoards was founded in 1999 by Patrick Clinger using the YaBB software, which overtime has turned into a completly custom code for ProBoards. Now today in 2008 ProBoards recieves over 500 million pageviews monthly.
Languages
English
Address
- Lake Forest CA 92630 US
Contact
- Patrick Clinger
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Additional Information
ProBoards has four servers just for default template images.
As of 10 Janaury, 2008:
- 2,042,313 Boards hosted.
- 17,752,045 total registered users.
- 46,081,578 total threads.
- 511,642,190 total posts.
ProBoards main source of income is through AdFree purchases, and the Google ads displayed at the top of every message board. ProBoards in 2003 stopped using popups or popunder ads making their software and hosting more unique.
ProBoards was the first remotely hosted service for free that gave subdomains.
ProBoards has many servers. To view each domain they do own as a server, server mergers, or domains that were taken and not owned by ProBoards go to: ProBoards.com/servers.
Some information that should be known about the Support community. Only the people with the red names and has 'ProBoards.com' as a custom title should be trusted with your password. The only time your password is ever asked for is when it is to confirm your original signup password to restore a deleted board or regain ownership.
As well in the Support community it should be known that the staff shows extreme favorism. Older members 'spam' a lot and the staff seem to turn a 'blind eye' to it. Younger members their first 'spam' comment they get hit hard by the staff. They seem to be a "closed" group outside of the offical board for support and bug reporting.
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External Links
- Alexa: ProBoards.com