Forum Instead of Forums
 

After doing a few site installations, It really matters to them if its /forum or /forums
I guess its just really what they like better...

Thoughts?

It's "fora" ;)

Im lost :confused:

/board/

I was thinking that would be a 3rd option, but don't know how many people use it, if you read this please add to the poll board and community :)

I personally prefer forum. But set up redirects of anything anyone is likely to type in as well. /forums, /board, /community, /bbs etc... all redirect to /forum. I always thought of it as a forum with a collection of sub forums. I see no real difference in which directory you put your forum in so long as it can be found. All a matter of personal preference.

edit: I believe fora is the proper (latin) plural form of forum.

I prefer /forum just because it's easier... I think 60% of all forums is located at /forum ...

It's "fora"

Latin; Fora = Forum

forums, because there is really more than one forum.

I use forums personally, ever since my first install and in the instructions to install a fresh vbulletin is for a folder called forums, so I used that and then just stuck with it from there.

[wiki]Forum[/wiki]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum

actually, i can't vote.. lol

words used by some of my clients:

community, fora, forum(s), board, discussion, threads, group, chat, place, talks, sharing, "/" ... (ok, that one is common)

Mine's "/" :).

i Put mine as the homepage I guess you could say.

The word "fora" is a piece of pretentious crap used by people who are trying to demonstrate their "intellectual superiority".

For the record, "forum" is now in the English dictionary and thus is an English word, and the correct ENGLISH plural of it is therefore "forums". This is confirmed by the OED.

"Fora" is still correct if you want to be pretentious and pretend you can speak Latin.

Ask yourself this....if you think "fora" is best, try making that your site's URL...www.yoursite.com/fora and see how many hits you actually get.

As regards the original poll, I prefer /forum/ but that's largely because that's how Jelsoft's sites are. I did previously use /forums/ and I think both are equally ok.

(I once got so annoyed with people saying "fora" on my site that for a bit of a joke we set a replacement variable to change it to forums)

None of them all.

Just the domain. :)

If you can speak latin fluently or even remotly more power to you, ive been taking it 5 years now and im still lost. Yikes.

The majority of the english language is based on latin. Forums or fora are both acceptable as the plural form of forum. Fora is also contained in the English dictionary and is acceptable to use. English is far from being the standard for which all other languages are judged.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forum
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/forum

Couldn't be explained any better :cool:

Agreed.