Your community deserves a real forum
Etaboards gives you a modern, fully-featured discussion board on your own subdomain — provisioned in under a minute, free to start, no server required.
yourcommunity.etaboards.app is waiting.
Everything a community needs
Built like the forum software you grew up with — without the hosting, updates, or security patches.
A real discussion board
Categories, forums, topics and posts with a rich editor, reactions, @mentions, tags, quoting and a proper unread system — the classic forum experience, modernised.
Make it truly yours
Themes control every page through a slot system. Go further and write your own components — they run sandboxed, right on your board.
Serious moderation tools
A reports kanban, warnings, suspensions and bans, content rules, spam defenses with captcha, and registration controls from open to invite-only.
Groups & permissions
Fine-grained permissions per group, per forum. Staff roles, member ranks, validation gates — you decide exactly who can do what.
Optional modules
Achievements, a virtual economy, a webshop with Stripe & PayPal, roleplay characters, file downloads, events — flip them on when you want them.
Zero servers, zero patching
Your own subdomain with TLS, an isolated database, CDN-backed uploads and automatic updates. You run the community; we run the infrastructure.
Live in under a minute
Pick your address
Choose a name and a subdomain — yourcommunity.etaboards.app.
Confirm your email
One click on the confirmation link and we build your board: database, defaults, your admin account.
Start posting
You land on your board signed in as its administrator, usually in under a minute.
Free to start. Fair as you grow.
Every board starts free with generous limits — including all current modules. When your community outgrows them, you'll pay only for what you actually use.
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