The ausMMO forums are very much alive and in full swing! There are several purposes and functions of the forums here, which I will briefly detail in this article.

Plain 'Ole Forums

Much like any forums on the web anywhere, the forums are a place to communicate, talk shit, organise and generally collaborate with your guild/community/whatever. The forums here serve this function, but take it one step further. There are public forums where anyone from any game can chat. There are game forums (one for each game) and within each game forum, there is public chat (specifically for that game) as well as entire GUILD forums inside. On clicking into our WoW forums, you would be met with public chat forums, public class forums and 2 entire guilds, all under the humble heading "World of Warcraft".

Memberlist = Character Name Reference

On registering with ausMMO, you are able to enter up to five characters in various guilds/games you've been a part of. That list is fully browseable, so you can find old mates under new names in new games. This functionality will be greatly expanded in the coming month, to be a fully scaleable, searchable and browseable character index, so that each member can list as many (or few) characters/guilds/games as they want. If someone wants to be found, you'll be able to find em here.

Guild Hosting

No matter what you do, the core of ANY guild website is the forums. Organising groups and raids. Sharing info & quest write ups. Asking for help. Posting links. All of it is done on the forums, where every member can stay in the loop and keep up to date on the goings on of the guild. Well, ausMMO forums have been designed to host as many guilds in as many games as necessary. Not only do we offer your own set of forums (and you retain moderation/management of your members and forums), but you may also avail yourself of a subdomain (something like, http://myrandomguild.ausmmo.com.au [not a real link!]). Quite commonly, guilds will want phpNuke or Joomla installed so that their forums have a 'front end' for members to go oooh over. Well, you can get that here.

phpBB3

The forum software used is phpBB3 - very common, very popular and STABLE. For those of you who aren't used to phpBB3, check out this post, which lists some of the cooler features, like your own board preference, internal friends & foes list, PM that behaves like emails (reply, forward, BCC, send to group, multi recipients etc) and subscriptions.

Joomla!

The front end of this site (which you are currently viewing) is powered by Joomla!, probably THE most popular cms system on the web. Its flexible, funky and very scaleable, so that it will grow with ausMMO as it needs to.