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In a Magical Place called Michigan

So this will be my first time running a clan and running a website for the clan. I've been experimenting with wordpress and bbpress for our forum so far. I'm not sure I like it honestly. Might just have to find the right theme for the job but so far... it's kinda eh...

I'm thinking i'm going to try phpBB next and see what i can get scrambled together with that. But does anyone have any other thoughts out there?

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If you're a PC gaming clan... just use steam groups. They have a forum system built in without the hassle of administration
phpBB can and does work but it's vulnerable to a great many things
Consider Futaba/Kusaba/*aba - wot 4chan uses. It's suitably low maintenance and low server impact if you enable authcodes




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Discord can be very useful, and it has build in voice chat and moderation tools.

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Discord voice chat is also according to some lower bandwidth use than skype on voice chat.

Has multiple chat facilities for text and voice, plus admin tools etc.
Ie ot can maintain and run multiple different char rooms for different games at same time.

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As someone who's had several clans with websites/servers, doing steam groups is highly recommended
   
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Steam, discord, or look at proboards if you really must have a forum.

   
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Probably work

I literally just set up a discord channel for this very thing. I'm trying to migrate the 10 or so people we have off of the commercial mumble server I pay for (and about 4 different hangouts for text) and onto that as a single venue of communication. It's pretty not bad so far. Latency for voice seems to be slightly worse than mumble, but leaps and bounds better than ventrilo was, even despite having servers hosted in region.

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