Discussion Boards

AutoForum is a self replicating message forum community script. This is 100% automated and allows for both free and fee based operation. Main features: Unlimited forums; All data is accessed and stored using MySQL; Advanced admin; Complete banner service; Paid members can enable emoticons, search messages, edit message, use their own banners, and turn on the printer friendly link; and Strong security features with flood protection, partial or full IP banning, password protection, and word filter.

ScareCrow is a fully featured and free message board system. It is meant to be both powerful and easy to use, for the users and the administrator. Released under the GPL License, ScareCrow hopes to gather a great community of users and developers to make it the best message board in existance.

This message board emulates one of the major Webmaster Resource message boards and works very well. Along with great admin functions it is truly an easy to maintain board.

NEWBOARD.PL is an easy to use beginner's message board. It is based on Matt's WWWboard script, with better privacy (email addresses are not posted), simplified form layout, and automatic emailing options to inform webmaster and poster of messages and follow-ups. Comes with full instructions and useful help notes. Zip file also contains the original WWWboard script with its administration script.

Gossamer Forum is a fully threaded, SQL powered forum that runs on Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL or Postgres. It supports features like file uploads, advanced permissions/groups support, WYSIWYG editor, fast and powerful search engine, user friendly design and much more. Gossamer Forum is free for non commercial use, and comes with a 30 day evaluation for commercial users.

This script uses HTML embeded Perl code to serve threaded discussions. Perl embedding is done by a small CGI Script. This discussion board is very lightweight and has a very clean output. It intentionally has none of the fancy features of some of the big bulletin boards. It concentrates on serving information. Threads can be generated on the fly or you can have them saved as HTML files for best performance so that search engines can index them. You can run multiple forums with one script or install multiple scripts using the same embeded perl engine. HSPNotes is totally free and the embedded perl engine can be reused for anyother HTML embeded perl scripts.

CuteCast bulletin board offer you the perfect combination of speed thrills and knockout features. Whether you want unlimited boards and categories, ability to add your own custom emoticons on the fly, invite-a-friend feature, ranking system or et cetera, CuteCast provides the tools you need to make your homepage more interactive and entertaining.

Midmart Messageboard lets you run a highly customizable bulletin board with a very nice user interface (similar to Yahoo Clubs) on your web site in few minutes. Other features include: threaded or linear style of messages, 10 messages per page with Next/Previous buttons, newest items at the top, built-in search engine, administrator functions allows the admin to edit or remove any message, very easy to install.

This is a message forum script with such features as multiple topics, ability to reply to the messages and your own customizable headers and footerts.

Kagora is a web forum system, written in Perl, using a MySQL database backend. Features include: Moderation - The Kagora system allows direct as well as moderated forums. In direct forums, messages appear as soon as they're posted. In moderated forums, they need to be previously approved by a moderator; Intuitive interface - Forums appear to the user in three frames: a menu, used for navigation, a list of messages, and a frame used to display messages and to post new messages; Skins - Forums are associated to skins that enable to customize their look; and Support for i18n - All messages produced by the system are grouped in a separate module.

CGIForum is an attempt to build a good, light-weight, free forum that does not require you to display the author's name or some kind of other advertisement and needs no database server. It features: Template-based easy customization, User registration, Expandable/collapsible threads of unlimited depth, Message search engine, and Web-based admin to manage the overall forum.

Acity is a web-based, threaded discussion tool. It's *fast*, very intuitive to use, was beta-tested by more than a hundred people, and is now totally stable. Acity remembers each user's preferences, and allows unread-only browsing, like a usenet-news system. It offers the ability to manage several different groups, with different themes, forums and administrators for each group. It runs on any OS that have Apache, mod_perl and a SQL server.

YaBB (Yet another Bulletin Board) is a graphic-heavy message board and instant messaging system, written in Perl. Features include: Full administration and moderating options; Ability to change/administer on the fly; Full UBBC code in posts, with error-checking galore (enable/disable); Integrated instant messaging system for member to member; Ability to customize the layout colors and css via a template; Private Boards; Login length options; Delete registered members; Full profile options; Email all registered users; Maintenance Mode for major board administration; Ability to move topics; Simple registration form and option to generate random password; Post icons to designate the message type; Sticky topics and more.

Psunami Webboard is an attempt to create a fast, customizable, fully-featured, 'Internet Bulletin Board' system. Current features include: saving, posting, loading and displaying messages, multiple boards, IP and subnet-based banning, cool admin script, html in separate file to make customizing easy, thread name and name length limits, double-post protection, and file locking for all write operations. More features are to be added in future versions.

MyBoard is extremly easy message board script written in Perl. It features: user registration, message search function, Web-based admin script, and more.

With EZWBGEN you'll be able to provide free message board service to your guests. At creation time, the color scheme, admin password, quoting rules, and other display options may be specified. Each board is self moderated, always keeping the number of messages below a value defined during board creation, but the admin function allows more options for deleting messages.

The Oneliner is a kind of message board where you can leave small messages, a little like a tagwall. Besides it's very small and neat, it may look anyway you want so it'll fit any design. You may also specify the number of rows that should be displayed. Other features are multiple content files, archiving, censoring and spam protection. This script requires SSI.

BAZAAR is a fully GPL WWW conferencing program with a MySQL back end. It is based on an earlier version of WWWThreads, but significant changes and enhancements have been made. For example, code has been simplified and many common tasks have been moved into an API to facilitate distributed development. Main features include: Multiple language support (user selectable and easy to add language files), Themes support (selectable at the site level), Profanity filter, Username filter, Error logging, Abililty to restrict users to specified categories by category number, and Fine grain access control using Unix style permissions.

This is a modified version of Matt Wright's WWWBoard. Features extended from WWWBoard include: Sorting posted subject by modified time, created time, and subject ID, Forwarding posted message to the specified email addresses, File locking, Supporting template for the posted html files, and Check disk free space before do any operations.

Slash is a database-driven news and message board, using mod_perl and MySQL. It has been programmed to use persistance for a good deal of its variables to increase speed and efficiency. Slash has all the features and more that you'd ever want in a bulletin-board / message-board system. You can customize it to anything you want, give it any appearance that you want.