Thanks everybody for you feedback.
To answer some questions.
We do support ad removal, it's a premium service that is currently $14.95 a month, with that you also get 5GB of storage, 50GB of monthly bandwidth, custom domain name hosting (so you don't see the lefora.com domain), personalized tech support, and daily offsite backups)
We also have other premium services, such as whitelabeling, where we remove any mention of lefora.com and links to our site from your forum (by default they're on the footer). We have single sign-on as well, so if you already have another website, your members won't have to login to your forum, they are automatically logged in with their existing credentials.
gazzie, I would still like to learn more about your concerns on limited control. This would be really valuable information to us, as we've heard the same concners before and we want to make sure that we give away all the controls needed for an admin. Are there services you've seen in the past that limit your control? What would be some items that you're concerned about not having in a hosted solution? Admins have full access to the CSS so they can make their forum look however ever they want, from sizes to colors to background and header images.
p.s., if anybody is interested in setting up a test forum to provide more feedback, i'd be happy to give you one of our premium services for free - custom domain hosting. This would allow you to use your own domain name instead of lefora.com on our forums - i assume that's one item important to everybody here. Just email me at 'vincent -at- lefora.com' and mention this thread.
Thanks again everybody for the feedback (and if you have any negative points, I'd be glad to hear those as we really want to make the best forum product we can)
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