Free Chat & Forums for Webmasters Here are the services that provide free messageboards and chat rooms for websites, usually supported by advertising. They are rated based on their lack of advertising, site design, popularity and features.

Aimoo Online Community Builder Rating: 10/10

• This site had all the features and customization abilities that I would expect from any messageboard site. There is not as much advertising as some other community sites, and it seems that there are some very active communities already on Aimoo.
  
  BoardNation.com Rating: 10/10
  
• One of the smaller messageboard services, BoardNation.com provides advertising free(?) bulletin boards with plenty of features.
  
  Akheva.com Rating: 10/10
  
• Another great free messageboard service. It almost seems too good to be true, considering that everything is fully customizable and there are no ads of any kind at this time. The only limitation is that you may only have 90 forums on your messageboard at any time.
  
  MyForum Rating: 9/10
  
• An above average array of features including 19 languages await you at MyForum.
  
  Fast Boards Rating: 9/10
  
• Another outstanding message boards service with a nice selection of features. The only two minor drawbacks are that they do have a banner ad at top (which seems pretty reasonable) and that you can only have a maximum of 300 posts (which shouldn't be a problem for most sites).
  
  World Crossing Rating: 7/10
  
• At World Crossing I found lots of active forums, though not as many customization features as I was expecting.
  
  Eboards4all Rating: 7/10
  
• This is a service that looks pretty good, supported by advertising, that gives away message boards and guestbooks. Their services are pretty customizable.
  
  Chat-Forum.com Rating: 7/10
  
• Free java based chat room for your website supported by banner ads or a pop-up.