Discussion Boards

HyperNews is a cross between the hypermedia of the WWW and Usenet News. Readers can browse through the messages written by other people and reply to those messages. A forum (also called a base article) holds a tree of these messages, displayed as an indented outline that shows how the messages are related (i.e. all replies to a message are listed under it and indented). Users can become members of HyperNews or subscribe to a forum in order to get email whenever a message is posted, so they don't have to check if anything new has been added. A recipient can then send a reply email back to HyperNews, rather than finding a browser to write a reply, and HyperNews then places the message in the appropriate forum.

InternetBoard is a non-threaded chronological bulletin board system. It comes with customizable footer and header templates and keeps track of the number of hits per message.

PushPin is a Web based, fully-threaded powerful forum system. There are 69 global configurable options in Pushpin as well as 14 forum level options. In addition, PushPin now has a fully integrated Banner Management system. Its combination of simple web based forms and templates makes it easy to integrate discussions into the look and feel of your existing web site. It also comes with DB/DBM support, optional .htaccess security and custom graphic support.

Ruboard is easy to use, simple, configurable web board - a place where people can discuss things interactively usign their browsers. Although initially based on Matthew Wright's WWWBoard, Ruboard has been completely rewritten to improve stability, configurability and ease of use. Main features include: Stability with file locking, Compatibility with WWWBoard, User registration and password protection options, Ability to post messages, images and url's is controllable through passwords, IP blocking, Multiple language support (Russian and English for now), Controllable size of board, Support for multible boards, A lot of visual enhancements and configuration options, Can add advertisement on every generated page, and more.

Discus Pro is a commercial add-on to the popular Discus WWW discussion board software package. Some additional features in Discus Pro include: Private reading topics, User self-registration (automatic, queued, or e-mail verified), Automatic archiving and pruning by conversation length, Manual archiving and pruning by date, IP banning, IP-based authentication, Message editing (users edit own messages within 30 minutes), Backup and restore built in, Attachment uploading (documents, text files, binaries), Log analysis tools and Preferences of users stored to control board options.

A fully featured discussion board program with easy to install, modify/delete posted message (by author), powerful administrative functions, two level administration, email notification, search on subject and content, integrated file uploading, configurable threading, message rating, visit counter, user registration, modifiable user profile/password, moderating, banning of forbidden words and many more features

Adds and retrives users' threaded posts. All the text that is to be displayed on the main page is saved in the main database file. Multiple forums can be run from one script, by using a separate directory for each set of datafiles. If users' browser supports 'frames', the script will create the main window and a bottom window to display full text of a thread, refered to as 'full' screen and 'split' screen. User can switch between full/split if frames-capable browser.