E-Blah is open source community building forum software built with security, stability, and speed in mind.
E-Blah is a Perl-based forum system requiring very low system requirements making it a fast and flexible forum system. E-Blah is a forum constantly evolving, with new releases several times throughout the year.
Whether the audience is large, small, or in-between the E-Blah Forum Software is here to help it grow. Also, with our virtually twenty four-seven technical support team, whom are ready to answer any question you may have about the system, you cannot go wrong.
With E-Blah you will be able to build your own forum with many features included.
Here are some key features of "E Blah":
· Themes System
· Menu system (home, login, logout, member center, etc.)
· Area that welcome users, date and time, instant messages
· Easily switch between themes in the Member Center or make default themes for the entire board
· Member Groups
· Members may be a part of many different groups
· Groups can either be opened or closed (members can freely join)
· Group managers may add or remove users without consent of a forum administrator
· Groups have permissions that can be set by the forum administrator
· Specific boards and categories can use groups as "permissions" which allow users to enter, post, or moderate
· 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 or phpBB
· 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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