ProBoards ForumsReviews of proboards.com

Proboards has been nothing but professional the 12 yrs with my forum. I have learned many things such as plugins, theme creation and very simple admin Services. I would recommend proboard forums to anyone. They are great! And very nice people.

Every page load they shove a reminder in your face to disable your ad blocker. Good job this ad blocker can also block these annoying reminders, and these constant popups are not tempting me to disable ad blocking, they just make me more angry and happy to do it.

I use Proboards Forums. I am currently using Proboards Forums. My site is called "Cabbage" I do stuff with fermenting and souring it. I have to say that the negative reviews that I have read on here really surprise me. I have found the support forum to be among the best I have ever used. Proboards is free to use and its is far better than other forum software that I have used. Proboards servers are super fast and load your pages in a flash. The layout and admin areas are simple to use and a joy to work with. Themes and plugins are available and lots of them. The SEO situation is not perfect but try out some of Proboards competitors and you won't see anything better. If you want your site to load fast you have to go for the add free option which is very reasonable at around $6 a month. Proboards V6 went into beta stage this week and I am looking forward to taking it out for a spin. Yes I like Proboards. Would I recommend Proboards ? ABSOLUTELY. For those of you who have spoken negatively about Proboards, I would suggest at least having the decency to register for an account and use the software before making your comments. I started out with Createaforum software and used it for six months., I never saw a search engine once. Whenever I make changes to my Proboards site the search engines are there in an instant. I have checked most of the forums out there and most of them come with their own set of problems. From very slow page loading times to difficulty understanding how they operate. The trouble with all forums is that you have to be prepared to do a bit of work and this is where Proboards outshines the rest with its simplicity, You don't need to waste your time figuring things out, you can just get on with adding new content. The five stars is based on what you get compared to the rest

These jerks sent me an invite which I did not request and it’s really pissing me off

The site admins randomly delete boards when they feel like it, even if that board did literally nothing malicious, they'll wake up and see that their board was removed for 25(a). Upon reading the terms of service, they'll realize that 25(a) literally says "we can remove you for no reason". While normally this clause is used as a legal backing and/or to save time, proboards uses this to terminate randomly people they don't like for laughs. I hope this website fades into obscurity and the "CEO" badly running this mess quits and gets a real job. Nobody should use this website.

My Geography teacher is using ProBoards for our classes even though we have a google classroom and the UI is just TERRIBLE AND ALL THE THREADS ARE SO COMPLICATED!

The link showed up on the first page of google when searching for the ProBoards API. I've read most, if not all, of the comments and although some of the comments appear as valid gripes without merit. Most of the comments appear to be from a certain centric perspective (I, me, mine, wah!). Proboard owners own and ought to operate their world any way they wish (even if it hurts our feelings or destroys any of our expectations). Need I remind that probably most of the comments on Trust Pilot against Proboards are not customers of Proboards (until they can post a valid receipt that some quid pro quo has occurred). Just as if you were to visit my house, you WOULD take your shoes off when I ask you (or you will just leave), as an example (*why am I suddenly envisioning a female?)....Anyway, yes Proboards has some odd behaviors such as the sudden visitors I see when I log in as admin (but when anonymous, it's a desert), this though is just an assessment made for the time, I could be wrong about any devious manipulative covert or clandestine plottings. And yes, when I tried to incorporate various chat software with proboards, it failed (that's my wah!). ****Now let's hear the positive news about ProBoards: 1.) It's free (if you can build yourself a better chat server, then DO IT! nothing in mind? Enough said.) 2.) I noticed that when googling "Springfield Ohio Chat" that Proboards brings up my page on the top of the first page of results. For any of us not professional at SEO, that is an accomplishment. 3.) It's free (if we don't like it, kick it to the curb. it doesn't mean it was bad.................IT JUST MEANS IT DIDN'T WORK FOR YOU OR YOU OR YOU OR .....YOU). 4.) Although I was at one time kind of miffed a few years back (they took my administrative privileges down to a glorified user or sub-admin level), but in all honesty I break a LOT of stuff and seeing as how it's been years without full admin of the FREE proboards account, it's used to the capacity that is probably best (for me....and maybe you if you are on my proboard site at the time I press the red button.). amen

Proboards deleted one of my friend’s forums and then Proboards.com refused to say why it was deleted. Proboards often terminate forums and refuse to give a reason.