Steph Jensen

For me, conversations are between two parties/people, and might be confused to messages. Thats why i called them Discussions. But if Forum is not a problem for your community, i don't see any reason why to change it - it would be very interesting to see if activity in the forum increased after renaming them!
Also, a tip - renaming the lable was one small part of this. I went through the language file, and replaced all Forum with Discussion, forums with discussions, forum to discussion etc. Took a little time, but was worth it. Only place that users see the word forum now is in the URL and i don't think they notice

For me, conversations are between two parties/people, and might be confused to messages. Thats why i called them Discussions. But if Forum is not a problem for your community, i don't see any reason why to change it - it would be very interesting to see if activity in the forum increased after renaming them!
Also, a tip - renaming the lable was one small part of this. I went through the language file, and replaced all Forum with Discussion, forums with discussions, forum to discussion etc. Took a little time, but was worth it. Only place that users see the word forum now is in the URL and i don't think they notice

I have gone with Discussion, and did last time i tried to launch the site. A forum would simply not work, because users think a forum is a forum, and will relate it to the simple freeware forums that you can find hosted for free.
That said, i let users create Forums in their clubs, because they seem to think it is a useful tool.

Yeah we just saw it ourselves. What timing! ?

Is IP.Gallery going to get some love? There has been nil to much of anything to improve it from when IPB 4 came out.