January 2008 Forum of the Month

Current stats:

• Owner: Matthew
• Age: 5 Years, 3 months
• Members: 18,104
• Posts: 219,000+

Final Thoughts (majority opinion of the AdminFusion staff):

The first forum of the month for 2008 goes to Neighbors From Hell in Britain (NFHiB). These forums are one of the most unique forums the staff has come across to date. As the title suggests, NFHiB focuses on support for those with "neighbors from hell". As far as we know it is the only forum focusing on this topic and it does quite a good job at it.

First of all, NFHiB has a great design. It is very clean and easy on the eyes. The whole design has a very web 2.0 feel about it and makes it so people will want to come back. Overall a very sharp look. Aside from the design, NFHiB has a lot of things that it does right.

The entire idea of a neighbors support forum is one of the most creative topics out there today. A perfect place to go and vent your problems when you just can't take it anymore, and get help to figure out how to deal with your problems. And as a guest user the concept is creative enough that it makes you want to register so you can see what its all about. But creativity doesn't mean anything if you don't have great content to go along with it. NFHiB certainly delivers in this category. Very helpful support is offered from both members and staff to those in need.

The helpful support and friendly posts must be what keeps the members coming back because activity certainly isn't a problem. NFHiB boasts numbers of over 200,000 posts and many of those are on-topic posts. And this forum has had steady numbers for over five years, surely one of the oldest forums to win this prestigious award. It is truly an amazing community when a forum can last as long as this one has and still be as active as ever.

To top it all off NFHiB has some great modifications. The forum features a very useful sidebar packed with info that is helpful to the users, showing off a paid subscription, featured member, help links, and more. The forum also features an arcade and a very helpful law section, so you can see what kinds of laws your neighbors from hell are breaking. NFHiB also has a great staff. While these neighbors might not be nice, the staff certainly is. The founders seem very polite to everyone and have huge post counts.

Congratulations to Matthew and NFHiB on a very well deserved award!

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