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