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Google Answers shut down about 5 years back. As stated in the official Adieu to Google Answers -
Google is a company fueled by innovation, which to us means trying
lots of new things all the time -- and sometimes it means
reconsidering our goals for a product. Later this week, we will stop
accepting new questions in Google Answers, the very first ...
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phpBB
and
vBulletin dominate the market.
phpBB is free and open source where as vBulletin costs a couple hundred bucks and is closed source. (but sometimes has a few more features)
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Look no further and try FogBugz for free for 45 days! It's totally worth it.
Among other things it has:
Great Issue and Bug Tracking System
Awesome Customer Support
Evidence Based Scheduling
Integrated Version Control System
Joel
And many many more cool features and super fast environment.
Whatever questions you have regarding the FogBugz please use ...
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I have personally never used Disqus on a web-developer/administration level, but as a user (reading + posting) on several Blogs such as Notch's Minecraft Blog (oops he disabled commenting!), I've noticed that it tends to have some serious issues handling large amounts of users/posts. The most apparent issue is the random disappearance of comments, ...
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Google Answers got shut down years ago. The Questions and answers that were posted by users before the shut-down are still visible to everyone on the net but no one can add a question or answer an existing answer - as it's shut down.
Google never gave an official reply to why the service was shut down, but there do are many speculations related to it. You ...
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You could create two throw-away email accounts, and give each party the other's address, setting those accounts to forward to their real addresses. IE:
yourclient@email.com (set to forward to your client's normal address)
yourcontract@email.com (ditto for your client)
You would have login access to the in-the-middle accounts, and could make that known to ...
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For that thread in particular, you can use this link to view the first 100 posts: http://www.overclock.net/t/1232496/crossover-27q-led-led-p-27m-led-2720mdp-gold-led-monitor-club/0_100
And you can set your preferences to 100 per page, but at that it's still 54 pages.
I tried tricking it into letting me set it to 900 but it won't.
As for a permanent ...
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I haven't seen any web application that can extract a thread into a single page. I do know that this forum provides a mobile version. Which when viewed on the desktop, reduces the clutter allowing for a faster read. You can access the mobile version by clicking the mobile button on the bottom of the page.
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There is always Yahoo! Groups.
It may not actually require one to have a Yahoo mail account, but in practice the act of joining tends to end up with one created for you. You are not obligated to use it for anything, however.
It is ad supported, both on the site and in email containing group content.
It is a weird hybrid of a mailing list provider with a ...
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Give Vanilla Forums a try, they are the best IMHO.
Also you might consider installing BuddyPress on a WordPress blog (it's a plugin), that's a good alternative to classic forum approach.
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I found a free service that looks reasonable for my needs listed in the question: http://www.mixxt.net/ It offers your own free social network including
mail all members functionality,
events,
news,
forum,
wiki,
blogs,
pictures,
private messaging
and much more, in fact anything you could think of.
The free version just displays some mixxt adverts and ...
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Hmmm, that's a lot of functionality.
I think Redmine does most of those things, but it's really a tool to help with managing software projects.
I admit it's a crazy idea, and you still would have to set up a server, but you could make it work.
Other than that, I don't see a lot of alternatives to Google's services.
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LinkedIn does not support any of these tools "out of the box".
I created a new private LinkedIn group in which I could make test posts all day long without bothering anyone. HTML, Markdown and Textile all just rendered as plain text with gobbledegook. Some examples:
[n.b.: I am new to Textile, so that formatting may be incorrect. Even if so I'd bet ...
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You could create your own Private Wiki at Wikispaces.
You would need to upgrade to the Plus Package for Individuals and Groups in order have a private wiki. This costs $5 a month or $50 a year and provides the following features:
Unlimited Users
Unlimited Pages and Messages
2GB Storage
Max 20MB Per File
WYSIWYG Editing
Ad Free
Private Wiki
SSL Security
...
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Google docs can be shared with other people, are reasonably private (so long as they don't share with others) and can support multiple updates I think.
Google Wave would have been the ideal place to do this but they aren't continuing support for it (although it looks likely that the main features will be built into google docs at some point soon).
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In the forums, when viewing the topics, you should see a column on the right for monitoring options.
Click on the orange RSS icon to grab the feed of that topic.
You can just use your RSS reader of choice to get notice of replies.
Or you can use some RSS-to-email service (e.g., Feed My Inbox, Feed Mailer, etc.) to have those RSS items sent to your ...
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FreeForums.org looks pretty good.
Features include:
Custom Admin Panel
Over 150 different styles
Ability to add Modules for extra functionality
24/7 Support
Spam prevention
99.9% uptime
Unlimited bandwidth
There is also the ability to upgrade your package:
Host on your own domain - $15 per year
Ad Removal - $4.95 a month
Copyright removal - $10 per ...
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