We are pleased to announce the opening of a brand new 1060 Forum discussion service.

Whilst mailing lists have their uses we understand that not everyone wants to subscribe or has the desire to manage mass mailings.

Our intention is that over time the forum service will replace our mailing lists. It provides a permanent searchable record and should prove to be an easier and more effective communications channel.

To view the forums available visit:
http://www.1060.org/forum/

To register for membership visit:
http://www.1060.org/forum/join

Security and Privacy

The application has been written to pay careful attention to security and user privacy.

Your email address is needed to join - a confirmation email will be sent with instructions to complete registration.

Your chosen username is revealed with any posts you make but no other record of your identity is displayed unless you choose to reveal it in your profile.

To enable personal communications to be started outside the forum we provide a mediated email service. This is a trusted broker which you can use to send emails to another member without revealing either your or the recipients email addresses. Once you trust one another you can swap email addresses and talk direct.

Every mediated email provides a link to report abuse of the service - any member that sends spam or abusive messages will be immediately deleted.

Technical Details

1060 Forum has been developed on NetKernel using standard libraries and tools available with NetKernel Standard Edition distribution.

Application features include: very high performance fine-grained caching of forums and posts, cached RSS 2.0 feeds of both forums and topics, mediated email service to provide communication between forum members without having to divulge email addresses, BBCode entries with dynamic editing and preview, fully skinnable, comprehensive back-end administration tools.

The application took 1 developer week to build the data and web application which included researching and writing the data model. Skinning and presentation took 4 developer days. Total development time, from conception to public site, was just over 1 week.

More detail on the technical architecture of 1060 Forum is available here.