Forums
NationStates has a forum community. Originally, they were phpBB forums hosted by the NationStates server, but after NationStates was acquired by Jolt, the forums moved to Jolt's forum site running on vBulletin software. The off-topic / out-of-character 'General' forums are mainly used for recreational purposes and political discussion. Role-playing is done in the Diplomacy (formerly "Sound and Fury") and World Assembly forums. A dedicated team of volunteers moderates the forums; most of them also moderate the game to keep it free from spam and objectional content.
On 29 April 2009 the phpBB forums were reintroduced on the site's server for beta testing; on June 7 Barry declared the beta test a success and made the new forums official. But he also stated that the Jolt forums would remain.
Recently, Jolt announced the NationStates forums hosted by them would be set to read-only status, meaning users could no longer actively post on the boards. As of October 2010 the NationStates Forums have been deleted from Jolt.
Since then 'new forums' have been set up hosted on the NationStates server.
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