Ezboard
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Type of site
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Bulletin Board System |
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| Owner | ezboard, Inc. |
| Created by | Vanchau Nguyen |
| Website | ezboard.com |
| Alexa rank |
 1,048,445 (April 2014[update]) |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Required for creating forums and posting; Admin optional for posting on Gold Community boards |
| Current status | Moved to Yuku |
ezboard, Inc., based in San Francisco, California, United States, is a provider of free and paid hosted Internet forums.
ezboard was a provider of a free hosted message board for use by webmasters and message board administrators who have little to no experience running a web site. Along with having premade ezboard templates and a color picking tool, the ezboard community also supports volunteers who will help other users customize their ezboards.
ezboard offers free and paid accounts for both boards and users. The free accounts are supported through advertisements, and have fewer features in regards to customization and board management. Paid members are called "ezSupporters", while paid message boards are referred to as "Gold boards". Accounts can either be local (deprecated) and tied to a specific board, or global, which can be used for posting across the entire ezboard network.
Yuku is the new version of ezboard. It has been alpha/beta software since it was first unveiled at DEMOfall 2005. On January 9, 2008, it was confirmed that Yuku is "coming out of beta", although a date has not been set.
As of January 8, 2008, it has been confirmed that all ezboard communities will be moving to Yuku. However, board owners can ask for a delay in the migration process.
As of January 15, 2008, the ezboard home page is now redirecting to a Yuku Welcome page. A link allows users to log into ezboard.
EzBoard has now switched all its boards to Yuku.
On September 8, 2011 Yuku was acquired by CrowdGather, Inc. The acquisition included all legacy ezboard domains.
ezboard is a web application, created in 1996 by Vanchau Nguyen. One of the earliest user-customisable online message board providers, it quickly grew. Around its peak in 2001, it was in the top 50 most popular websites in the world. http://blog.compete.com/2007/10/01/top-ranked-web-sites-popularity-2001/
In 2001 ezboard launched their first CSC (Community-Supported Communities) product, i.e. a paid version of ezboard without advertisements. This later split into CSC Blue (officially called CSC Community) and CSC Gold (officially called CSC Gold Community). CSC Blue removed intrusive advertising popups but retained advertising banners for a fixed price, while CSC Gold was 100% ad-free with extra features, but at a variable cost. It was reported that some very large ezboards paid the fixed price for CSC Blue, which ultimately proved to be an unprofitable product. ezboard announced that as of August 31, 2001 they would no longer renew CSC Blue boards.
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