# Website Review **URL:** \ **Category:** design\ **Created:** [October 4, 2023, 3:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/website-review/662076 "2023-10-04T03:57:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Timmothy](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/timmothy/32/23712_2.png) [@Timmothy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Timmothy)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2023, 3:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/website-review/662076/1 "2023-10-04T03:57:52Z")
I just found this forum page and this is pretty stinking cool! I also kind of made my own ‘forum’ page and I would like to get some suggestions and reviews on it. [TimmChan](https://timmchan.vercel.app/index.html) Btw if you know how I could make this into a real forum page than help me because I’ve been trying for ages now ---
**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2023, 7:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/website-review/662076/2 "2023-10-04T19:14:36Z")
404 ☹ ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/a/3/a3952ddbda5e8251db059fefdb05c3fbe21ae3f2.png) ---
**Author:** ![Timmothy](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/timmothy/32/23712_2.png) [@Timmothy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Timmothy)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2023, 10:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/website-review/662076/3 "2023-10-04T22:52:51Z")
K, I just fixed it, try going to [www.timmboard.com](http://www.timmboard.com) ---
**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2023, 4:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/website-review/662076/4 "2023-10-05T16:25:29Z")
Unless you really want to build your own forum from scratch for educational purposes, you may want to use an off-the-shelf solution. This site uses [discourse.org](http://discourse.org), for example 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Timmothy](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/timmothy/32/23712_2.png) [@Timmothy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Timmothy)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2023, 9:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/website-review/662076/5 "2023-10-05T21:19:39Z")
Thanks for the recommendation, I’ll check it out I would like to build my own because it sounds like a lot of fun but just getting one up and running already would be really great lol ---
**Author:** ![Timmothy](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/timmothy/32/23712_2.png) [@Timmothy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Timmothy)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2023, 9:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/website-review/662076/6 "2023-10-05T21:31:36Z")
I don’t mean to be picky or anything but I’m kind of short on cash right now. Is there a free alternative to discourse that I could use temporarily? ---
**Author:** ![Timmothy](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/timmothy/32/23712_2.png) [@Timmothy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Timmothy)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2023, 9:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/website-review/662076/7 "2023-10-05T21:34:11Z")
The working links are now [https://timmboard.netlify.app/](https://timmboard.netlify.app/) and [https://timmboard.com/](https://timmboard.com/) ---
**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 4:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/website-review/662076/8 "2023-10-06T16:54:04Z")
Discourse is free and open-source, though the hosting requirements for it may be a bit expensive. If you are looking for a free solution with easy/cheap hosting requirements, then this is a good choice: [https://mybb.com/](https://mybb.com/)