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They allow spam advertising. I went to activate my account and right on that page was spammy fake ads with activation buttons asking for my credit card details. Dreadful. This is a clunky and awful forum service, how is it allowed to exist?

These guys are a scam. When i was using them i had a set of rules that they wanted me to abide by. If we don't they will take us down.

I couldn't even sign up. They say my e-mail address is not valid. I strongly suspect they have intentionally blocked my e-mail service, because it has special features to both stop unwanted spam and track how the spammer got your address, while still allowing legitimate e-mail through. Several companies that are mining for addresses do this to my service. So, my review is don't trust ProBoards. If they won't allow people to sign up with an e-mail service that blocks unwanted spam, there must be a reason. By the way, trustpilot does the same thing. So watch out and don't give them your actual e-mail address. It's a pretty good bet they are selling everyone's information. Otherwise, they wouldn't care if you use a spam blocking / origin tracking service.

My only problem is that I got on the Bugera forum, took the time to get set up, make my introduction of myself and then posted. THEN, I realized that NOBODY had posted on it for several years! Needless to say, I haven't gotten any reaction to my posts. I think it has crapped out, so why is it still even on the Internet?

Worse cybersecurity procedure about safety of our account and no way to contact support if your IP got flaged by error. No email, nothing! You lose everything when your account got hacked and no one would tell you if your account got hacked. We are scare now about leaked data or ransomware could be spread over their website. Nothing will you protect.

Every page load they shove a reminder in your face to disable your ad blocker. Good job this ad blocker can also block these annoying reminders, and these constant popups are not tempting me to disable ad blocking, they just make me more angry and happy to do it.

These jerks sent me an invite which I did not request and it’s really pissing me off

The site admins randomly delete boards when they feel like it, even if that board did literally nothing malicious, they'll wake up and see that their board was removed for 25(a). Upon reading the terms of service, they'll realize that 25(a) literally says "we can remove you for no reason". While normally this clause is used as a legal backing and/or to save time, proboards uses this to terminate randomly people they don't like for laughs. I hope this website fades into obscurity and the "CEO" badly running this mess quits and gets a real job. Nobody should use this website.