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Features:

MyBB is a forum package full of useful and to-the-point features, helping you to make administrating your bulletin board as easy as possible. We highlighted some of MyBB's best capabilities, to show you why you should choose MyBB over any other discussion board. You can find these highlights on the navigation on the left of this page.

Security

MyBB puts your board's security first.

Extensive measures have been put in place to guarantee MyBB's security on your web server. We've performed security audits and rewritten code to make sure that no vulnerabilities are left unpatched in MyBB. In the off chance that a vulnerability is found, you can be confident that we're already preparing a patch for immediate release.

Speed

So fast you'll have to chase it

MyBB has been optimized to be speedy on any occasion; be it a large or small forum. Whenever we make a change to the core workings of MyBB, we first ensure that it will not cause a disturbance in the speed of your board. Several features have been rewritten to be optimized for larger boards while still working on smaller boards. Regardless of whether your forum is big or small, you can be guaranteed MyBB will provide you with the speed you need to get your forum running.

AJAX

MyBB makes use of AJAX to enhance its features

MyBB uses AJAX technology throughout to make its features quicker and easier to use. In MyBB 1.2, inline editing was added to allow for faster editing of posts from the thread page and thread titles from the forum page, and keeps you from having to load an entire page to make one small edit. In addition, auto completion was added to private messages to make finding the user you want to write to easier. MyBB 1.4 added still more AJAX-based features, such as an updated quick reply, the ability to mark a forum as read, an updated buddy/ignore list manager, an updated thread rating system, and the ability to select PM recipients from your buddy list. Even the Admin CP utilizes some AJAX, such as in the settings search and the theme manager. In all of its uses, AJAX refines the user interface and makes MyBB even easier to use.

Inline Moderation

MyBB's inline moderation makes management easier

Inline moderation can be found throughout MyBB's forum and thread pages to make mass moderation a breeze. Inline moderation allows you to perform the same moderation task on multiple threads or posts, or just one. You can even create your own moderation tools using MyBB's custom mod tools. Inline moderation is just the beginning of the extensive moderation systems you'll find in MyBB.

Permissions

Extensive permissions allow for complete control

MyBB features a vast set of tools for thorough control of your users' access to various parts of the board. Every user group has a large set of permissions for various features in the board, as well as varying permissions to each forum. With MyBB, you can control every level of user with ease, and can easily block access to any part of your board to some groups, while leaving it available for others.

General Features

• Have an unlimited number of members, forums, posts, threads - and anything else!
• MySQL Fulltext search capabilities (MySQL 4.1+)
• As many copies as you like, one database.
• Completely customizable with our intuitive templates and theme system
• Install or create as many different languages on your forum as you please
• Developed in PHP, compatible with MySQL, PgSQL, and SQLite v2 and v3 database servers

Member Features

• Powerful user control panel
• Custom profiles and settings per user
• Custom profile fields
• Advanced private messaging system with tracking and multiple folders
• Reputation system allowing members to rate each other
• Signatures, avatars, buddy and ignore lists and forum subscriptions

Posting Features

• Attach multiple files to a single post
• Automatic thumbnail generation for attached images
• Clickable smilies and BB Code
• Quick moderation options for moderators
• Email notification of new posts
• Create polls with multiple options and attach them to threads
• Multi-quote - quote multiple posts easily in one reply

Thread Display Features

• Threaded or linear viewing modes
• View a printable version of any thread
• Subscribe to threads or add them to a favorite threads list
• Send threads to your friends via email
• Quick reply area - quickly respond to a thread or quote a reply
• Report posts to moderators

Moderation Features

• Add moderators to particular forums, set their permissions or allow them to moderate all forums
• Extensive logging of all moderation activities performed
• Open, close, stick and unstick threads
• Move or copy threads between forums, merge threads together, split posts from a thread
• Inline moderation - mass action multiple threads or posts in one go
• Create your own moderation tools to perform multiple actions at once
• Moderator control panel allowing moderators to perform some light administrative tasks, such as announcement management, moderation queue management for the forums they moderate, and basic user profile editing.

Administration Features

• Completely customize the look and feel of your forums by creating a color scheme and modifying templates
• Control every aspect of your forums with little technical knowledge
• Manage forum announcements
• Assign permissions to forums and different user groups
• Manage smilies, custom MyCode, post icons, word filters and more
• Powerful user management features, including User Views, which are basically saved searches and allow you to track groups of users
• Ban users by IP address, email address, username or create a timed ban on an account
• Administrator permissions to limit the abilities of secondary administrators
• Run maintenance tasks to keep your forum running in tip-top shape

And More...

• Who's online list
• Advanced event based calendar functionality allowing multiple calendars, ranged and repeating events, event moderation, private and public events, and more
• Fully customizable F.A.Q.
• Members listing and advanced member profile views
• List of the forum moderation staff
• Forum statistics page