Case Study: ZedRooms - On Demand Discussion Forums

Context

Our client’s idea of Zedrooms was to build an online community for innovation, thought and ideation while applying the right controls to socialize with the right people at the right time. Zedrooms is a tool to user the internet to attract the right talent, with features to ensure privacy and trust. The concept is based around building highly functional and feature rich forums on demand.

Solution

Baryons provided a solution by building a platform where a user could post an idea that they would like to foster and create a forum on-demand to engage the community with their idea. The platform provides the ability to create sub-forums, control access to forums and their sub-forums by designating them as private or public, carry out public and private discussions on the same topic, allow the user community to vote in new member to private sub-forums based on their contributions and create rewards for members’ significant contributions.

Technology

- PHP

- PHPBB3 (customized)

- MySQL

Highlights

- Multi-level Discussion Forums

- Ability to keep parts of the Discussion private

- Deep customization of PHPBB3

- Several custom features