With over two years in the making, e-blah has become a project larger than most of the current perl based bulletin board systems. We have the best, free, technical support for a bulletin board system available. And if that is not enough we offer our software to anyone for free – meaning you can download e-blah, modify it to your liking, and then redistribute your modifications, all for free! E-Blah is most secure bulletin board system currently available.
E-Blah has the easiest installation process out there, along with the best support team in the world. E-Blah also has the easiest to use forum software out there (meaning Joe from the street could come and figure out how to use and administer e-blah without any foreign help).
Features: Template System
Menu system (home, login, logout, member center, etc.)
Area that welcome users, date and time, instant messages
Board Index
Indication of new messages on boards
Last thread to be modified listed with link
Moderators (if any) listed, number of users browsing board, and locked board notification (image and text)
Mark all threads as read
Forum time offset
Scrolling news option
Current forum statistics (boards, members, click log, planned events, invite friends to forum, members online, etc.)
Message Index
Board description
Sticky threads
Moderator options (stick, lock, delete, and move threads)
Link to "View All New Posts" (only show new posts on board)
"Switch to" link to go to another board
Forum rules
Mark all threads as read
Explanation of message status (locked, stuck, etc)
Rating threads
Last post time with who posted last and who started the topic
Members browsing the forum
Board notification
Message Display
Number of reply, with total number of replies on each post
Send topic to friend
Topic reporting
Posts per day with post counts
Signature (individual users can disable the signature)
Avatar (individual users can disable the signature)
Links to ICQ, AIM, YIM, MSN, Private Message, and e-mail to the user
Quote, delete, modify on each post
IP Address of user
Online status
Topic notification
"Switch to" link to go to another board
Quick Reply feature (no more going to the reply page each time)
Thread Rating
Moderator Options
Forum rules
Users can 'block' messages by certain members from appearing
Printer Friendly version of the topic, along with allowing them to download the thread to their Hard Drive in HTML format
Post / Reply page
Checkable "Topic Notification"
Users can disable smiles
Users can disable HTML (if enabled on forum)
Attachments
Add smiles (and custom smiles as well)
Blah code links
Color coated color Blah Code links
Preview (message preview above post)
Users browsing the board user is posting on
Topic summary of threads
Member Center
Private Messaging
Public profile (with editable side panel for members and administrators)
Banning of users from profile page
Members can change all of their public profile from the center
User Message Block (allows users to block messages from users they do not like)
Buddy and Private Message block list
Private Message search
Private Message Auto-Reply and 'E-mail on new PM'
Users can change Board settings - Disable censor, auto-notification, disable thread summaries, disable avatar and signature in post, etc.
Time settings - users can change time zone, and the way the date and time looks
Language and Theme - users can change the forum language, and the theme the forum uses
Notification Service - allows users to manage currently threads marked to notify (or e-mail on new post or reply)
Administrator settings - edit post counts, date registered, disable private messaging per user, member group, access status (disable user account, etc.) and a special 'forum' key you can setup on your forum
Administrator
Logging - Click Log, Error Log, Login/Out Log, Ban log, and Attachment log and management
Forum Settings - Theme manager, Modifications center, forum settings (over 100 basic forum settings), template manager (News, Main, registration, etc.)
Forum Update - Version check
Add and Edit Boards and Categories (easiest to use out of all other forums)
Extra Smiley Code
IP Search - Search for usernames per IP address
Various: Portal setup, censor, mailing list, recount member posts, reserve usernames, forum backup, etc.
Forum Conversion - YaBB
Full Featured Calendar
Add and delete events based on member group status (Admins, and others you assign)
Span events over days
View each months week breakdown
Birthdays and events are listed
Previous and Next month shown in "current month" display
Various
Easy to use Search Engine with Highlight tool
Easy splitting and merging of topics
Moved threads create new moved message
Member List
Easy to modify members (for administrators, no going into the Administrator center)
SID (Session IDs) for user logins
Complete member groups (change member group color on Board Index, allow other member groups to become administrators, etc.)
Administrators can disable nearly every feature of the forum
Maintenance Mode or Forum Lockout for maintenance (or for new forums so non-administrators can access via Forum Lockout)
Private boards, categories, and pass worded boards
Certain boards or categories can be inaccessible to unregistered members (without using password)
Customize the colors of the forum via Admin Control panel, or via the forum template (CSS)
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E-Blah Price: Free / $80.00 Version: Platinum - Final 5 Platform(s): Unix, Windows
