Recent content by Birchy

I suppose my "six forums per town" could be implemented as five "pinned/sticky threads", but I'd lose some granular statistical reporting (perhaps?). Still, it would be a good compromise for the short term. As long as pinned/sticky threads can be used by visitors to post etc as any other thread...

That site is similar, but with more towns and with 6 forums per town. But at least it lets the user drill down one level. I just need to drill down one more level and handle a lot more towns, not just the major metroplexes. Some day, I hope to break the larger towns into neighborhoods, much like...

Thanks for all the replies! I don't understand most of them, but the most important takeaway seems to be the issue of the package wanting to be able to list all the forums in one index page. And that's the biggest problem with the package that I'm using now (aside from the fact that a server...

xenForo comes a lot closer to what I need to have in a Forums module on one of my commercial sits. The biggest obstacle for all I've considered, is that it needs to be able to handle, in addition to a handful of general forums, at least 30,000 town forums, browsable by state, and having about...