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I have been pondering this one for a while. I am developing my own forum software (don't worry Brett it's ASP ;)). The forums are going to cover a WIDE range of subjects. The site in question is an all purpose one. For instance there will be forums on entertainment, car, mobile phones, 'intimate issues', holidays etc... I was wondering how to manage. Ideally, I want the forums to appear totally unrelated on the site (other than the software which I will hope to market). I appear to have several options and I'm looking for some advice.
I could:
1.Have one large forum with all the categories in. However, it will be had to navigate and I want the forums more specialised.
2.Have seperate forums with different databases. The drawback here is, if someone wants to take part in multiple forums they will need several logins rather than one. However, it will specialise the forums and make allow me to easily turn the finished product into something sellable.
3.Have one large database with one users table. This will mean one logon if someone want to take part in all the forums, however, it will mean coding the individual forums so that they don't link together and each user will need different post counts, recent posts, ranks etc... for different forums. This will also mean the finished product will be far from marketable.
Does anyone have any advice? Can you see an option I have missed?
Chris
Chris
Do you ever sleep? ROFLMAO.
