Question about ezboard.com

[zozo]

Iam new to ezboard,yesterday I made a community by it for my college ,it looks good but in the main page of the community there is a statement says :"Notice! Gold Community Trial will expire in 27 day(s). Go Gold NOW"
I didnt understand it well,is this mean that they will close my forum after this date if I dont pay to them?or it is just an optional?

if you know please tell me if the forums are free or not?

Bye

[Umah Bloodomen]

It's free. The Gold Community just means you will be ad-free and pop-up free for that period of time. (30 days). It also has some other special features as well.

There is information in the main EZ-board community page which will give you information on how to purchase the Gold Community in the future if you chose to do so.

[zozo]

Ok I understand,but can you tell me: if the 30 days expired,will the forum be as it is now?
also the perfect features which I use now will it be the same?

Thank you for help

Bye

[Umah Bloodomen]

Your forum will be the same only plastered with annoying ads and pop-ups. You'll have to review the information on the Gold Community to understand the other features, which offhand I am not sure you are even granted at this point because it's a trial. (Things like customizable profiles, etc.)

Basic account features will be the same.

[DKSM]

Actually, with a trial, you recieve everything you would with a Gold Community. Then after those 30 days, you get the ads all over and loose some abilities(chat, custom icons, custom logout, you cannot import a theme...etc.) Also, as the head of the community, you will be granted EzSupporter each time to buy Gold. This gives you no ads on any boards you visit even if they have ads and you can use your own CSS in your profile.

[Umah Bloodomen]

Originally posted by DKSM
Actually, with a trial, you recieve everything you would with a Gold Community. Then after those 30 days, you get the ads all over and loose some abilities(chat, custom icons, custom logout, you cannot import a theme...etc.) Also, as the head of the community, you will be granted EzSupporter each time to buy Gold. This gives you no ads on any boards you visit even if they have ads and you can use your own CSS in your profile.

Thanks for adding that DKSM. It's been so long since I had my own EZ-board community (as I've resorted to coding boards in php lately). I didn't exactly memorize the features of the Gold Community other than the ads/popups. (Although I kind of figured theme changes were a part of it).

I did become an EZ-supporter recently and do enjoy the customization I can do with my account.

[DKSM]

Originally posted by Umah Bloodomen
Thanks for adding that DKSM. It's been so long since I had my own EZ-board community (as I've resorted to coding boards in php lately). I didn't exactly memorize the features of the Gold Community other than the ads/popups. (Although I kind of figured theme changes were a part of it).

I did become an EZ-supporter recently and do enjoy the customization I can do with my account.

I had one that I stopped using a few weeks ago so I know how it worked and all as when my Gold ended I noticed a lot of my customizations didn't work..

Ohh, and another thing. With Gold, you can use Java. I didn't know that until my Gold expired and I had tons of lines of code all over my forum...

[Umah Bloodomen]

I had no idea you could implement JAVA into it.

[DKSM]

Yep, you can do it. I did a few things that were Java. I am not sure of the limitations with it though as I don't know Java that well.

[zozo]

Thanks to all

but Iam sad for for the bad news..
Ok the forum I make is for my college,so it must be almost good(not very perfect),ok I dont care very much about Java or the ads..,but Iam sad if there are other features will disappear and you didnt mention it.(if you know what are all the changes after the 30 days please tell me before I work hard in the forum then Boooooooom)can I find this in the Ezboard site,where?

so I now only know Ezboard as free site for communities,so Does anyone here know another site which gives free communities,and good as Ezboard but with bad stuff less than Ezboard...
if u know tell me
and if there isnt, so Ok,Dont care and Thank you

Bye

[Umah Bloodomen]

You can look up Gold Community information at any time from the EZ Board main page.

Here is the information including the features of the Gold Community.

As far as other message board services, just type something along the lines of Free Hosted Message Board Services into a search engine. I can't really comment on how good hosted boards are, on account I use free boards which you manually install onto a webserver in order to run it. (These are usually php-based). Unless you're familiar with php or other scripting languages you're better off sticking with the hosted boards.