Best Free Forums Features
Security
Designed with security as a priority
Powerful and extensive authorization system
Strong encryption to keep passwords safe in the database
Unlimited Forums & Categories
Unlimited forums can be organized into as many categories as you like
Private forums and those only for specified user groups
Powerful search facility
Posting Messages
Message formatting with various font styles and sizes as well as allowing quoting, code display, image posting and automatic URL linking
Support of standard and extended BBCode tags and controlled HTML tags
Polls can be simply added to posts
Email notification of replies to your topics
Powerful topic subscription capability
Original emoticons to portray emotions
Versatile User Groups & Forum Permissions
Powerful forum, user and group permission management
Control forum access to specified user groups
Control all aspects of the posting experience
Allow limited access to viewing, posting, replying and many other options
Member Features
Unlimited members
Personal profile creation
Post counting and administrator-definable ranks for users
Email-like private messaging system
Supports local, remote and unloadable avatars
Moderation Features
Topic editing
Mass delete/move/lock/unlock of posts
Topic splitting
Option of auto-pruning of old or unanswered messages on a per-forum basis
Easy to Use Administration Center
General configuration
Forum & category setup
Disallowed usernames
User authorization
Word censoring
Complete member management
Emoticon setup
Optional new post verification
Extensive ban management, ban by email address, username or single/multiple IP address or hostname
IP tracking of posts and posters
Mass emailing of groups and users by the administrator
Style and Customisation
Multiple styles available for the user to choose from
Complete control of fonts and colors with cascading style sheets (CSS)
Default style compliant with XHTML 1.0 and HTML 4.01 recommendations from the W3C |
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