Well, can't say I didn't warn people about Xsorbit, anyone who is handy with the search function on this board should be able to bring up the doom and gloom story I had on Xsorbit back in October I think... But as I'm too lazy to look it up myself: Xsorbit simply has a bad name, period. There was a period in June (?) last year when they suddenly got really popular, suddenly entire hordes of people thought they could run a forum on their own and lure people to their board, but in the end Xsorbit ended up with thousands of boards with only a few posts and the site got slower and slower until it literally cracked.
Sounds familiar?
As what is happening now is quite similar to what happened back then... Thousands of people who would never get a serious forum running are trying to do so anyways, and as a result, the Xsorbit servers are completely clogged up again with half-failed attempts at message boards...
My advice? Leave Xsorbit at once. Maybe they are able to get over this crisis, but like I pointed out before, they've been in a similar situation before and it seems there's a good chance Xsorbit will crack again in a few months from now.
If you really want a proper forum running these days, you'll just have to pay for some webspace (like at
PHPWebhosting for example, only $10 a month) or take another risk and go for one of the few free hosts that support cgi scripting,
NetFirms, but like I said, it's a serious risk. I've had some bad experiences with NetFirms in the past.
And the only other free alternative I can think of right now is ezboard (*shudder*), as proboards is having similar issues as Xsorbit does, only it also deletes any posts older than a certain amount of days on top of that.
As for the YaBB software, I think you're free to download it from their official site, probably
http://www.yabb.com, but I'm not completely sure about that.
[ 03-18-2002, 08:24 AM: Message edited by: Grojlach ]