Site Features

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.

These enhanced features are exclusive to our modified software:

New Features for YourFreeBB v1.5:

• Display recent or hot topics from your forum in real time on your own website.
• Quick Reply allows you to respond to a topic thread from within the same page.
• Search engine friendly links help surfers find your forums more easily.

New Features for YourFreeBB v1.1:

• Live RSS Feed allows your users to see new topics even when they aren't browsing your board.
• Customizable front page display allows you to choose which categories to show on your front page by default, or select specific categories to display via URL.
• Robust wildcard email banning.
• Advanced user searching features. Admins can find users based on any criteria in the user profile.
• Administrator and Moderdator action logging. Master Administrator can keep track of what other admins and moderators do with their privileges.
• Exacting message pruning. Remove messages based on IP, guest status, email, or just about any other criteria.
• Permissions HUD allows you to see the access controls on all forums at a glance on one page.

Our service is based upon the popular phpBB version 2.0 software. Its features include:

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 uploadable avatars.

Easy to Use Administration Center

• General configuration.
• Forum & category setup.
• Easy database backup and restore.
• 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 Customization

• Multiple styles available for the user to choose from.
• Complete control of fonts and colors with cascading style sheets (CSS).