robably you've heard about re-launched on February 5, 2002,
Christian message boards, the day of the merger, to promote
or perhaps you have the unity of all Christians as
participated in one of the most one body.
well-known Christian forums out
there on the web. Well, on its The first Christian forums
most basic, the Christian message developed by Loh and Swift
boards are by far the most active continue to grow. It grows even
Christian discussion board on the after Swift stepped down as
internet these days. Its history co-admin. Along with its rise,
dates back to the year 2001 when the Christian message boards'
the said "first" Christian forum shared mission of promoting the
was developed. unity of the Christian faith
continues.
According to some resources, the
first message board that carries Currently, the site has more than
the "Christian" label was 130,000 registered users and
developed by Erwin Loh, an serves members from almost every
Australian doctor and lawyer, on country in the world. This
November 19, 2001. After two re-launched Christian message
months of preparation and board has more than a hundred
discussion, the Kings Tavern, administrators and moderators who
which was created by a person are divided into staff teams that
named Ryan Swift, also known as are named after the fruit of the
Josephus, merged with Christian Spirit of Galatians 5:22-23. This
Forums for one particular purpose message board has been
- to help establish it as the maintaining its motto, which is
largest Christian message board "Uniting All Christians as One
community in the world. The new Body".
Christian Forums was then
Swift and Loh's Christian Forums access to particular forums. It
actually has an extensive is also typical in most Christian
organization of forums. As far message boards to have its own
as I know, there are more than currency called "blessings",
400 Christian message boards which can be given by other users
today, many of which have their or earned from jobs. This
own sub-forums. It is further currency is regularly earned by
worth noting that some of these posting on the forums. Also,
Christian message boards place blessings are used to add
limits on the users who can post features like avatars and
on them. For instance, only pictures to profiles, as well as
teenagers have the chance to post to purchase armor, pets and other
in the Christian teen forum. It features that can show up on the
is important to note that many of user's post.
these forums are only open to
Christians. Today, the Christian message
boards developed by Swift and Loh
Another thing of interest is the are running a modified version of
large number of options available vBulletin. They also currently
to the users. Typically, in most run on multiple separate web
Christian message boards, there servers, a central database
is a rather extensive profile sever, a slave search server, a
that users can fill out for DNS server, a mail server, an IRC
themselves. Some profile server and a static file server.
information, like the age and
faith icon, is used to identify
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