a la flow aims to be a high quality community with a general focus. a la flow should be simple, easy to use, and high performance for maximum satisfaction.

a la flow has a forum where its members can communicate on a large range of topics. This forum operates like many other forums but with a lot of unneeded bells and whistles removed and some new features aimed at making the forum easier and more fun included. .

a la flow has a basic set of rules in place to direct against illegal activity. The remaining style and quality guidelines are self enforcible where every member has a say in what is considered appropriate and what is not. Being a member of a la flow come with the responsibility of upholding the guidelines.

Internet forums find their origins from the newsgroups and mailing lists of the 1980s. Web based forums, the true meaning of the term internet forum, started to become common at around 1996. Since then, the basic concept has always remained the same. A forum is a place where people can freely post information on topics in a discussion format.

The early newsgroups and mailing lists saw the need for moderation and ownership and to this day, most Internet forums follow the same principle: Messages may be freely posted but they may also be moderated before they are made public or at a later time. Moderators existed to uphold the standards of each forum.

The concept of the moderator has been removed in more recent Internet news aggregators where the news viewers are responsible for moderating content and a general consensus controls what news stories make the list.

Extending this idea to forums is a major goal of a la flow. Removing the moderator and having forum discussions peer reviewed means that people not only share discussion but they also share the responsibility for what is acceptable discussion.

The larger forum software producers have spent a long time fine-tuning their forum software, constantly adding new features. The ideas for new features often come from a competing forum software or from a modification a forum owner has made themselves. This style of advancement leads to limited feature expansion and simmilar compeitive products. a la flow is a platform that will be used to implement some more radical forum features that other forums avoid due to their difficulty or simply are unaware of.

a la flow is a new type of forum condensing revolutionary techniques into an existing idea to improve Internet Forums.

Enjoy your stay at a la flow and I look forward to joining in your discussions

 — Ryan Krumins, a la flow founder