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Originally Posted by icesar  Well, taking this community as an example, I think WordPress is a perfectly good choice for building an audience and then a community. What we can learn from steve is that it matters less what technology we use and more how much value we provide and how well we execute.
Wordpress doesn't have an integrated forum module, but one can be added later, as Steve has done, when the readership and traffic of your site warrant it. And there are plenty of options; I personally like Get Vanilla! because you can integrate the look and feel better. But vBulletin is tried and true.
The bottom line is, the choice of technology is not that important, just go for it! |
Not to hump my webhost as I do so often, but Dreamhost has a one-click install process for both WordPress and PHPBB (a discussion forum platform similar to this one--it might even be the same one that Steve uses).
I checked out Vanilla--there's a lot to like about it but for the ease of set up a one click install of PHPBB is hard to beat ; )