Message boards, discussion groups, whatever you might call them, they’ve been around for as long as most Internet users can remember. Yet as this article by VentureBeat happens to point out, they were lacking a bit from the aspect of visual appeal. Thanks to Grouply, this is about to change. Grouply is about to give those old bulletin board type groups a new lease in life thanks to a Web 2.0 presentation.

What does this mean to you?

If you are someone who prefers mIRC to web chat and message boards to the Web 2.0 alternative, then Grouply could be a real hit in your world. Thanks to an image based, Web 2.0 feel with content handling, most people who use Grouply for their content sorting are likely to find it to be leap and bounds better than the original groups formatting you were using before. Still, at $20 per month to go ad-free, it may not be for everyone.