Internet was originally developed for military and administrative purposes. At that time, little would have somebody thought that it had the potential of becoming a very powerful communication channel thanks to a multitude of avenues offered for users to connect. Emails facilitate communication between two people while conferences are designed to allow more than two people to do the same. Similarly, a forum can allow hundreds to discuss a topic or share information simultaneously without sending individual messages to every member. Hundreds of online services, offering email and IM services, help make these a part of everyday routine. On the other hand, hosting a forum is nothing like an easy job as it requires advanced programming skills and a lot of time.

Lefora is a service that offers free forum hosting without the necessity of acquiring advanced programming skills or spending enormous amount of time for the same. A free signup gets you started with a free custom forum that has no restriction on the number of members or posts. The service requires no download and is a completely hosted. In addition, your forum is highly customizable with several themes and widgets to choose from.

Apart from easy set-up of a forum, Lefora provides various tools to keep it going successfully. An important feature allows users to contribute to a forum without registration, a step that has annoyed everyone of us at some point or the other. If you are worried about the spam, it should be a great relief to know that Lefora offers a very powerful anti-spam support. An additional WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) rich text editor makes designing and formatting the forum much easier. With other services like multimedia support, comment threading, forum search and unread message tracking, Lefora forums are very functional and user-friendly.

With Lefora, you will end up spending more time communicating with other members of your forum and not moderating, a disadvantage with conventional forums. This is done by letting other members rate posts which acts as automatic moderation. Moderators can also track their forum using the inbuilt RSS feed. Bi-weekly newsletters and automatic notifications are also sent to members which helps them keep in touch with the forum.

References : Lefora.
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