Forum hosting today is a very competitive market and hosts must fight to survive. One of the advantages we have is our collection of modifications or mods for short. Mods alter your forum in someway, whether it be a small quick reply or large chatroom. When FreeForums.org launched in February 2007 we changed the game forever with our constant upgrade policy. Today, I’m going to outline some of the work that goes into bringing a mod off the shelf and onto your forum.

We are always looking to provide our customers all the mods they need to run a successful forum. Everytime we evaluate a mod we run it through a few questions. “Is this what our users want, will it fit with our mission of what a forum should do?” Once we decide to install a mod it goes over to our technical team where we discuss security and scalability issues. Because of our proprietary systems and the need for mods that meet our high standards, we almost always end up coding our own version of the requested mod.

After research and development we move on to testing. We never rush anything into production and want to be sure that it really does preform the way we intended. This step also includes making sure every mod works on all 350+ templates between v2 and v3. With mods being installed on over 300,000 different forums there is no room for error.

In 2009 with will be highly focused on mods for our v3 system so please let us know what mods to add!