If your goal is to create a community, the easy free-flowing nature of the InterBoard lets the members of your community participate comfortably, encouraging a sense of participation and belonging. The InterBoard administrator establishes main discussion groups for participants to follow, and can also establish topics within discussion groups to provide the basic structure for exploring complex subjects, such as the state of rock music today, or managing many facets of a single project, such as running a business. The InterBoard uses password-protection to assure participant identification, and access to any discussion can be limited to selected participants. These security features make InterBoard private where it needs to be private and open where it needs to be open to suit your needs. Participants are free to begin new topic threads, add new posts to existing threads or simply read or search through the posts already on the forum.
Posts can be plain text or HTML source.
Participants don't need to know HTML to reference sites on the web though, the InterBoard recognizes http URLs and authomatically turns them into Hyperlinks. Posts and replies containing HTML source display as any Web page does, complete with active, functional links, graphics, formatting, or any moving elements referenced in the HTML source. The InterBoard thus allows participants to use all the means of expression the Web offers to get their point across. The InterBoard administrator has a set of easy to use tools for pruning thread lines, shifting entire threadlines from the end of an unrelated thread to the top of a new thread, managing participant access, and limiting access to discussion groups depending upon the identity of the participant. Even if a given discussion wanders off the topic, InterBoard provides a way to keep the focus yet capture the value of the evolving discussion and let people move forward through a discussion or exchange of ideas.