Features - Free Forum
Security
- Designed with security as a priority
- Powerful and extensive authorization system
- Strong encryption to keep passwords safe in the database
- Unlimited forums can be organized into as many categories as you like
- Private forums and those only for specified user groups
- Powerful search facility
- 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
- 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
- Unlimited members
- Personal profile creation
- Post counting and administrator-definable ranks for users
- Email-like private messaging system
- Supports local, remote and unloadable avatars
- 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
- 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
- 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