Good free community/clubs out there.

[nothingmanjb]

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone knows of any good free communities someone could run, something like excite clubs.
I'm an active member of a certain excite club but there are signs of excite putting an end to all clubs, so we'd like to find a new "home". What we're looking for is something which can basically have a member-only discussion area and allow the uploading of pictures.

If anyone knows of anything like this (besides free messages boards like coolboard or ezboard), please let me know.

Thanks,
John.

[Hierophant]

As for something you can run yourself I don't know but Yahoo offers clubs and Egroups offers storage and email lists. Since the two are merging you can create a pretty complete solution.

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[Owen]

I recommend Yahoo Clubs - it's quite easy to use (but a little ugly) and is powerful.

Great stuff.

Own

[WebKat]

Is eCircles too simplistic for your needs? Or are you looking for more of a portal type of community? At eCircles you can download photos/music and have private discussions online or via email...

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[nothingmanjb]

I'll recommend those to the board moderator. Thanks. It's kind of hard to describe exactly what I want, I guess you have to be a member of an excite club to know.

The club does have a message board, with different folders and subfolders created for discussions, and a section for people to upload and look at photos in albums (as well as a file storage space, but we kind of know that's out of the question). I think those who run the board are looking for a one-stop kind of thing. Ecircles looks like a good choice to me, so I'll recommend it.

Thanks guys.

John

[KeithMcL]

www.powersearch.com also has storage space, a favourites section, forums & surveys. They're powered by www.mindcrossing.com

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