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Helpful information for making the smart decision of moving to and getting started with Vanilla Forums.
Vanilla Forums Overview
It's all about community!
Vanilla Forums was created out of a desire to reinvent the traditional discussion forum. Forums are the original social media and remain the primary place for meaningful interaction among hundreds of millions of people. Whether you're a consumer brand, a YouTube star or a video game publisher, a vibrant and engaging community forum is a great way to build up advocacy and loyalty among your customers or audience.
Rewarding Positive Participation
Spam, abuse and poor quality content can scare away participants and can impact your ability to maximize ad revenue. Vanilla relies on peer-driven feedback and recognition of positive contributions to create positive and welcoming environment. Members can easily share their reactions to posts and can earn badges for various accomplishments.
Easy Moderation
Vanilla can automatically ban or suspend users based on the reactions from other members. Conversely, Reactions let you identify good content that can be brought to the attention of your website readership or customers. Additionally, Vanilla comes with all the moderation, administration and analytics features you'd expect in a modern platform.
Content Curation
Quality content is what drives engagement and attracts traffic to your community. Reactions from members are used to identify popular discussion which can be prominently displayed on a 'Best of' page.
Fully Customizable
Let's face it, many forums look outdated and don't follow modern usability best practices. Our forums are designed to be simple, highly usable and can be completely customized to match the look and feel of your website: choose a ready made theme or edit the HTML and CSS.
Hassle Free Hosting
Focus on your community instead of IT headaches. Our hosting platform is purpose-built for forums and can accommodate the biggest forums on the web. Since we host thousands of forums, we benefit from economies of scale; which means that as our customer, your total cost of ownership will be greatly reduced compared to owning and hosting your own server.
