Jcink Hosting

[Ravenfreak]

Does anyone here enjoy this forum host? jcink is definitely my favorite free forum host, it's one of the few that allow you to obtain a database backup of your forum just in case you wish to move to self hosting down the line. This alone makes jcink the best free forum host, plus the support from John is fantastic. Not to mention there's lots of awesome themes, lots of them were converted by @Cory to jcink which is awesome.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

To be honest it feels very dated (it is using 20+ year old software after all). The font is tiny on almost all jcink forums I come across. It lacks a modern alerts system. However it does have good features like the backup function and there are a lot of attractive themes available for that platform.

 

[Cory]

I've been using Jcink for 5+ years ever since the closure of Zathyus Networks. It's a pretty dead forum host compared to some thriving forum hosts out there, but I enjoy the minimal work I do on the software for those who are less fortunate to pay for forum software. I am the top member poster on the official support board, so that goes to show how much I enjoy helping people with coding/technical-related support. I think Jcink gets a lot of hate from time to time due to being so dated and somewhat dead, but there's a handful of super active boards across the network. For the most part, you can make a successful forum with the software.

It lacks a modern alerts system.

What kind of modern alert system did you have in mind? It has an alert system for the most part.

 

[Black Angel]

I love Jcink Hosting.. it really is amazing and I was on the service from 2006 to 2014 before I went to paid hosting..

But I still have my old forums, for the exception of the test forum I used for my themes.

John himself is a really nice guy and his support is top-tier. This man has spoiled me and has me comparing him to the support that I get on paid hosting now and it is a night and day difference.

I have also started forums for a few projects I am working on as well. I hope that he continues to succeed as well. I believe that his host is what IF and SpreeBB could've been had they not sold out (IF) or shut down..

 

[~ True Legend ~]

I love Jcink Hosting.. it really is amazing and I was on the service from 2006 to 2014 before I went to paid hosting..

But I still have my old forums, for the exception of the test forum I used for my themes.

John himself is a really nice guy and his support is top-tier. This man has spoiled me and has me comparing him to the support that I get on paid hosting now and it is a night and day difference.

I have also started forums for a few projects I am working on as well. I hope that he continues to succeed as well. I believe that his host is what IF and SpreeBB could've been had they not sold out (IF) or shut down..

What other forums besides TalkNexus do you own?

Jcink certainly seems cleaner than proboards for sure Then again, anything would

 

[Black Angel]

I only own 1 forum (with many name changes over the years and the names of my categories are named after them as kind of a throwback) but I do have a backup, a test forum, and theme forum where I keep an archive of my themes..

I am also in the midst of helping out with launching a few businesses and setting up forums for them as well..

And I actually started out on PB, and I'd say more about that service, but my both my mother and late great-grandmother raised me to be a lady.. lol I will say that it was both the software, and how the staff handled the v4 rollout, that soured me on the service, and between what I got from JFB and what I am getting from MyBB (though they have a lot of the same issues, such as the fact that like PB, MyBB was also started by teens, who later grew up and have lives of their own, hence the slowdown in development aside from security fixes..) but both of these reasons is why I will never return to PB.. That said, the entire history of that is on my about page for Talk Nexus.. this is a very long post, but then again, it is 19 years of history..

About Us - Talk Nexus (formerly the Twilight Cafe)

and I made a post about it over on Jcink Support..

Here is the shortened version of that history.. https://forum.jcink.com/index.php?showtopic=6827

The conclusion is on the move notice I posted on my old forum https://tcz.jcink.net/

My forum's 19th anniversary will be on 10/11/23.. I hope I won't be too busy to do something for the 20th next year.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

What kind of modern alert system did you have in mind? It has an alert system for the most part.

Like here (Xenforo). This one is much more responsive, sends you an alert for all sorts of various actions on the forum (not just when you’ve been quoted), is more noticeable and engaging, etc, etc.