Is Yuku Free?

Yes, the Yuku Community Platform is free to use. Yuku will run ads on some community pages to offset community hosting charges. You can remove the Yuku ads by signing up for the Gold Community service.

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How do I host my community on the Yuku Community Platform architecture?

• Yuku is web based and fully hosted—no hardware and no downloading required
• Our simple registration process will have you up and running in minutes
• Our service is reliable, with a history of over 99% uptime
• Our highly scalable technology allows your community to grow without fear of system limitations
• All releases and updates are automatic
• New features are released regularly
• Our Control Center allows for easy and powerful community and member management
• Boards are HTML and CSS compatible

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What are the Community Management Security features?

• Membership by Approval gives board administrators complete control over who is allowed to read and post in their community
• Weekly backups and free restores protect your board
• Administrators can create Invisible Forums—viewable only to allowed members
• Communities can be made public (searchable) or private
• Administrators can require different levels of registration as a condition of community participation—from no registration to posting for registered users only.
• Post Flood Safety Check and Spam Blocker protect your board from destructive excessive posting by spammers
• Administrators can view poster IP addresses for security purposes

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What are the Community Content Management features?

• Administrators can screen all posts before they are made public on the board
• Make multiple copies of a topic with Copy Topic
• Leave a Shadow (or placeholder) of any moved topic in its original forum
• Sticky Topic keeps important information at the top of the board
• Hot Topic identifies and emphasizes topics that users have found interesting
• Administrators can enable an optional profanity filter with the ability to add additional custom words
• Administrators can use Pruning to mass delete topics older than a specified date
• Administrators and Moderators can delete, move, and close multiple topics with Bulk Topic Commands
• Board creators can assign an unlimited number of administrators and moderators per community
• Forum-specific moderators can be assigned
• Administrators can change posting and editing levels on a forum-specific basis

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What are the Community Member Management features?

• Member Management interface allows administrators to assign member levels, individual custom titles, and member rankings based on the number of posts.
• Administrators can ban members based on user name, email address and IP address
• Administrators can allow or restrict use of custom signatures, personal icons, personal photos, HTML, emoticons and posticons in posts

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What are the Community Promotion options?

• Make your community public and searchable by category and keyword in Yuku's Forum Find
• Publicize your community by sending promotional emails
• Stay in contact with your members by using the Email Members utility
• Members can invite friends by sending emails that direct them to the community

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What are the Community Statistics features?

• Community Profile & Active Members List
• Statistics on page views and posts are available for the most recent 90 days in the Control Center
• Administrator log records all board level actions performed, including the time/date, user name and IP address

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What are the Community Customization Features?

• Domain masking: you can use your own domains for your message boards
• Unlimited customizable emoticons—let your creativity shine
• Customizable Posticons
• Who's Online allows you to view all users visiting your board
• Each forum can be customized to have its own look and feel
• Advanced customization options allow you to tailor your board using HTML, CSS and plug in JavaScript
• Mimic feature allows administrators to mimic settings from one forum to another
• Sort Topics chronologically or by the last topic touched
• Post a Poll to let your users vote on issues
• The option to display a poster's IP address to administrators and moderators
• A moderator map to see a list of all moderators and which forums they moderate
• Use your own custom profanity filter
• Administrator notifications for when members are pending approval

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What are the Registered User features?

• Choose your own user name, password and secret question/answer when you register
• Send and receive messages to and from fellow Yuku users with your web-based Inbox
• High Security option for user accounts helps prevent hacking
• You can modify your User Profile at any time
• You can include a custom signature with graphics, various font styles, etc., at the bottom of every post (individual boards have the option to disallow HTML in signatures or disallow signatures entirely)
• You can include a personal avatar with every post

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You can customize your personal board view by:

• Set number of posts per page
• Mark topics and messages as read or unread
• Option to view only new messages
• Option to receive private emails from other users
• You can receive email notification for replies to topics

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