Forum like collaboration environment for small development team

Question

Hello,

We have a team of 3 Windows developers and we are currently discussing technical features on IM or email. Issues are discussed and then there is usually a final decision.

We want to have a forum-like environment (e.g. phpBB or other more developer centered solutions), where we can discuss issues in a structured way. Here is what we are looking for:

• A forum like place where posts are submitted under a topic
• HTML,links, videos, pictures in posts
• It shall be possible to upload docs and images
• Good and preferably fast searching topics (some PHP forums are really slow about this.)
• Shall run on Windows Server
• Secure (shall not be too easy to hack)

Any suggestion is appreciated.

Thank you

Paul

Answer 1

Perhaps you want to check out Basecamp? Or set up a wiki of some kind, those are more useful than forums in my experience.

Answer 2

More startups prefer to use already hosted solutions for their projects, it will cost less money and time.

Checkout Assembla features and subversion hosting offer for sharing source code.