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If you have a Web site that is supposed to keep people coming back, then you’re going to need to add elements that accomplish that purpose. Good content can be enough to keep people coming back, but results in this area are usually improved when a certain level of interaction is added. This interaction can involve you and your visitors, but it’s even better when you also enable your visitors as a group to communicate with one another. Your audience has found your site interesting enough to visit, so they’re likely to have some things in common with other visitors. When it comes to supporting discussions, one of the things that we see a lot of are forums. Vanilla provides free hosted forums for you and your community to enjoy.

There are a lot of forum solutions out there, but many of the most popular ones have seemed to stay pretty much the same for many years. Vanilla is something different, and its simplicity will probably be enough for some people to consider using it. You can control the way things look, plugins are available, and premium features enable more functionality. I like the way Vanilla offers page creation, which helps to make your forum start to feel like a Web site. After all, why not base your site around the discussion?

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