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ProBoards is a free, remotely hosted message board service that facilitates online discussions by allowing people to create their own online communities. ProBoards was founded by California-based technology entrepreneur Patrick Clinger, who developed the ProBoards software to empower online community creation.
ProBoards was founded by Patrick Clinger, who wrote the ProBoards software. Prior to launching ProBoards, Clinger had run HostedScripts, a company aimed at creating free web widgets.
The service hosts over 3,000,000 internet forums, which in turn have approximately 22,800,000 users worldwide. Currently, all ProBoards forums combined receive a total of over 600 million pageviews per month, making ProBoards one of the largest websites on the Internet. As of 2013, ProBoards forums collectively received over 600 million pageviews per month, making it one of the largest websites on the Internet at that time. However, pageviews have decreased in recent years, reflecting broader trends in forum usage
However, according to TechCrunch writer Anthony Ha, those numbers had seemingly dropped by 2014. In an interview, founder/owner Patrick Clinger stated "ProBoards has been used to create 3.5 million forums", but about 1.2 million of them were still active (i.e. resulting in the occasional page view). Proboards has been noted as a potential tool in resources for educators.
In October 2021, ProBoards was purchased by internet company VerticalScope Holdings a company specializing in online communities and digital media. Following the acquisition, Patrick Clinger and the ProBoards team joined VerticalScope to continue developing the platform.
Proboards is coded in Perl, a popular programming language with web developers. Previously, due to the remotely hosted nature of the service, users could not modify the software directly as with some forum systems, but some customisation was possible through the use of CSS or JavaScript codes. With the release of v.5, however, ProBoards gives Administrators and certain other members access to the HTML and CSS of the webpage, for easier coding purposes.
The first day of business for ProBoards was January 1, 2000. At first, ProBoards originally used software created by the owner, Patrick Clinger. In late 2001, though, ProBoards switched to the YaBB system. At the same time, other changes to the service made it the first remotely hosted service to offer a subdomain with each forum (e.g. username.proboards[servernumber].com)
On June 11, 2002, ProBoards Version 2 was launched. This was coded by Clinger and was a rewrite of the entire software rather than improvements to the existing YaBB based setup. The main goals of this rewrite were to improve the overall speed of the software and add new features to keep the product competitive.
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ProBoards
ProBoards is a free, remotely hosted message board service that facilitates online discussions by allowing people to create their own online communities. ProBoards was founded by California-based technology entrepreneur Patrick Clinger, who developed the ProBoards software to empower online community creation.
ProBoards was founded by Patrick Clinger, who wrote the ProBoards software. Prior to launching ProBoards, Clinger had run HostedScripts, a company aimed at creating free web widgets.
The service hosts over 3,000,000 internet forums, which in turn have approximately 22,800,000 users worldwide. Currently, all ProBoards forums combined receive a total of over 600 million pageviews per month, making ProBoards one of the largest websites on the Internet. As of 2013, ProBoards forums collectively received over 600 million pageviews per month, making it one of the largest websites on the Internet at that time. However, pageviews have decreased in recent years, reflecting broader trends in forum usage
However, according to TechCrunch writer Anthony Ha, those numbers had seemingly dropped by 2014. In an interview, founder/owner Patrick Clinger stated "ProBoards has been used to create 3.5 million forums", but about 1.2 million of them were still active (i.e. resulting in the occasional page view). Proboards has been noted as a potential tool in resources for educators.
In October 2021, ProBoards was purchased by internet company VerticalScope Holdings a company specializing in online communities and digital media. Following the acquisition, Patrick Clinger and the ProBoards team joined VerticalScope to continue developing the platform.
Proboards is coded in Perl, a popular programming language with web developers. Previously, due to the remotely hosted nature of the service, users could not modify the software directly as with some forum systems, but some customisation was possible through the use of CSS or JavaScript codes. With the release of v.5, however, ProBoards gives Administrators and certain other members access to the HTML and CSS of the webpage, for easier coding purposes.
The first day of business for ProBoards was January 1, 2000. At first, ProBoards originally used software created by the owner, Patrick Clinger. In late 2001, though, ProBoards switched to the YaBB system. At the same time, other changes to the service made it the first remotely hosted service to offer a subdomain with each forum (e.g. username.proboards[servernumber].com)
On June 11, 2002, ProBoards Version 2 was launched. This was coded by Clinger and was a rewrite of the entire software rather than improvements to the existing YaBB based setup. The main goals of this rewrite were to improve the overall speed of the software and add new features to keep the product competitive.