What is the difference between a forum and a message board? And does Yahoo support forums?

Question

I'm a member of a Yahoo group that recently changed to the forum format. Another group I'm in would work well in that format, as well, but doesn't think that Yahoo supports forums. I just assumed it did, but can't seem to find an answer to such a basic question. Also, I don't know what a message board looks like.

Answer 1

Forums Is like, Conforums, probards & sudden launch, you create them, add Catogorys & boards, I had a bunch. Very time consuming but fun,

http://www.conforums.com/index.html

http://www.suddenlaunch.com/index.html

http://www.proboards.com/index.html

Answer 2

not sure. they have message boards and what I know as Ygroups, and then the new Beta groups which are test stage.

Yahoo Message Boards

http://messages.yahoo.com/

Yahoo Groups

http://groups.yahoo.com/

The Official Group for the Yahoo! Groups Beta

http://new.groups.yahoo.com/yg_beta_foru...

Answer 3

The main difference between a forum and a message board is that a forum provides the ability to establish categories and start continuous threads along a particular topic (s).   While a message board creates a chat room like environments where instant messaging can be performed between two or more members of the board.