I am trying to look for a free or low cost forum or website like "My Family" for a group of people I know to come together to chat and keep each other updated, any one has any idea?
Peiling, I've had a MyFamily site for 5-6 years now that is used by my extended family (spread out across half the u.s.). There are well over 100 folks on it. I have never had any problems with it. It is private, not open to the public, password, passname protected. Never had a problem there either. We have well over 2,000 pictures on the site, we write articles, share news, ........ has it's own
private chat function.... your own email yourpassname@the name of your site.com all kinds of options. I've never even came close to hitting the bandwidth limit... not even close... usually only 1-3% a day.
.......... I think it's great. I think I'm paying around $115 US for the year and it is a 5 gig site. I've yet to come even near using 50% of it. The group is very active, upwards of 22 hours a day.. we average around 30 family visit every day. Some of the folks are 'on' all day long. We have had a lot of fun on the site, used it for mass communication to the group.. I honestly cannot say anything negative about it or my experience with it. Maybe 3 or 4 times a year, I've seen it down for maintenance and that only for a couple hours.
And no, I do not work for them or have stock in the company...LOL
However, I'd be happy to be used by them as a reference or testimony. I really can't say anything bad about them at all. I'll try to post a link to our public homepage if I can figure out how to do it here.
- tomhttp://www.dogonianmagazine.com/isapi.dll?c=h&htx=page I was successful with the link. Please excuse the fact that I have not had the time to update the homepage (December issue still showing-actually it IS up to date, that's the lastest one we published). Dogonian Magazine is something my brothers and I have been publishing since the mid-70's. It is designed for our extended outdoors family and relates to family business, trips and activities and things of interest to them specifically. It is not available to the public. Lately we have not been able to keep up with it in our 'spare' time. We are trying to get another up for March.... but, we'll see
Right now, I have 3 pending shoots for a 'legitimate' publisher... ha ha ha ha... no time for the homespun magazine.
In it's prime in the 90's the magazine was full color and usually about 70 pages, and quarterly.
But to the point. I would highly reccomned MyFamily.com
