Feature Descriptions


Basic Feature Breakdown

Posting
  • UBBCodes
  • Smilies
  • Word censor
  • Polls
  • Topic tracking
Skins
  • Multiple skins allowed
  • Basic and Advanced Mode
  • Assignable Image Sets
  • Custom Menus

    • Image Sets
    • Multiple image sets allowed
    • Changes images used on forum
    Icon Sets
    • Multiple icon sets allowed
    • Changes icons available when posting on forum
    Smiley Sets
    • Multiple smiley sets allowed
    • Changes smilies available when posting on forum
    Custom Menus
    • Multiple menus allowed
    • Add/Remove buttons
    • Input your own menu code
Pages
  • Create your own pagse
  • Each page implements its own template
  • Assign different skins to different pages

    • Templates
    • Input your own code into the header/footer
    • Store/Load repetitive code from modules
Membergroups
  • Multiple membergroups allowed
  • Grant/Revoke permissions
  • 3 Types: staff, assigned, auto-assigned
Global Accounts
  • Log in once and log into all local accounts you're linked to
  • Link to local accounts on any number of forums
  • Easily navigate between forums using your favorites list
Calendar
  • Schedule public events for all members to see
  • Keep private events for yourself that only you can see
Personal Messaging
  • Communicate with members within a forum
  • Add/Remove custom PM inboxes
  • Use PM content filters to automatically sort your PMs
  • Blocklist
Friends List
  • Keep track of where your friends are on the forum
  • Rename your friends
Management
  • Multi-manage system allows for quick management of multiple items
  • Multi-manage mode can be enabled/disabled with the click of a button
  • Board moderators
Space
  • Unlimited categories, boards, topics, posts, PMs, members
  • Virtually unlimited EVERYTHING
Searching
  • Fully integrated post and member searches
  • Use quick search to find things quickly

Detailed Feature List

Forum Features
  • Member Search
  • Post/Topic Search
  • Quick Search (Posts) - Quickly search for posts while browsing within boards and topics
  • Quick Search (Members) - If you forget a member's username, use this search to find them
  • Polls
  • Mini-profiles
  • Signatures
  • Board Moderators
  • News Fader
  • Info Center
    • Forum Statistics
    • Users Online
    • Most Users Ever Online
    • Today's Totals
    • Today's Calendar Events
  • Mark As Read - Mark boards, posts, and PMs as read (PMs can be marked as read, new, urgent, non-urgent)
  • Paged Viewing
  • Jump Box - Quickly jump from one board to another
  • Quote Posts - Quote other members
  • Split Topics - Split a topic halfway down and change one topic into two (for when posts get off topic)
  • Send Topic To Friend
  • Add Topic To Notifications - Keep track of a topic (watch topic)
  • Print Mode - Disable all colors and images (plain text mode)
(For member features, see 'Control Panel' below)
(For administrative features, see 'Admin' below)

Control Panel
  • PM System
    • Send Personal Messages between members
      • New 'Urgent PM' options tells the receiver your PM is very important
      • Choose an icon to go with your PM
    • Set up multiple PM boxes
      • Have PMs automatically go to the right PM box with PM filtering (by sender, subject content, message content)
      • Move PMs between boxes at the click of a button
      • Manage multiple PMs at once (mark as read, mark as new, mark as urgent, mark as non-urgent, delete, move)
    • Blocklist to 'squelch' members you don't want to hear from
  • Calendar
    • Create private events that only you can see
    • If you are a part of the staff you can create public events that all members can see
    • Advanced scheduling system allows you to create an event by a specific date, or by a specific occurrence (the first of every Month, the third monday of March every year, etc.)
    • Choose an icon to go with your event
  • Personal Profile
    • Includes a preview of your mini-profile, contact info, personal info, signature, misc. info (last time online, date registered, last known IP) (Note: Only certain staff can view IPs)
    • Also includes a list of the member's last 5 posts
  • Friends List
    • Add members to your friends list and take notes about them
    • Opt to require your approval before other members can add you as their friend
    • Rename your friends to the name of your choice, which can be seen all across the forum
  • Notification System
    • Keep track of key topics of interest
    • Opt to receive topic updates via PM or email
  • Personal Preferences
    • Change PMs per page, time zone, date format, opt to disable member avatars, opt to disable member signatures, opt to require friends list approval, change your default skin
  • Global Options
    • Upgrade to global account - This will create a new global account and automatically link your local account to it
    • Downgrade to local account - This will not delete your global account, but will rather sever the link between it and your local account
    • Link to global account - This will link your local account to the global account of your choice
    • Link to different global account - This will enable you to switch which local account is linked to your global account
    • (Note: Global accounts can have multiple local accounts linked to it, but only one local account per forum)

Admin
  • General
    • Forum Settings
      • Change the forum name, forum email, category, description, toggle maintenance mode, edit maintenance mode message, toggle guest access
  • Media
    • News Center
      • News Fader
        • Change the fader speed and the news events to be displayed
      • Important Announcements
        • Rather than sending out a mass of PMs, this message will appear within each member's control panel
    • Mass Email
      • Choose an email type (announcement, important announcement, special announcement, update, event, special event, reminder)
      • Send an email message of up to 1000 characters to every member of your forum
    • Mass PM
      • Replaced by 'Important Announcements'
  • Content
    • Disable Ads
      • Simplified ad-free system: 1 ad-free credit gets you 30 days of ad-free
      • Can un-use credits accidentally used
    • Censored Wordlist
      • Avoid unwanted content by switching undesirable text with more suitable words
    • Categories & Boards
      • Simple graphical representation of all your categories and boards makes it easier than ever to create, edit, move, delete all your categories and boards
      • Sub-boards up to 3 levels deep (a top-level board can have 2 levels of boards below it)
  • Members
    • Warn/Ban Members
      • Warn members for up to 3 levels of warning
      • Members are automatically banned at the 3rd warning level
      • A banned member's last used IP and email are automatically banned from the forum
    • Reserved Names
      • Reserve usernames and display names for members who have yet to sign up, or to prevent name usage abuse
    • Manage Membergroups
      • Create, edit, delete the membergroups of your forum
      • Change a membergroup's type (staff, manually assigned, automatically assigned), name, flare, name color (and toggle bolded names)
      • Also, you can change the display name color of members belonging to each membergroup (and toggle bolded display names)
      • Change any and all membergroup permissions
  • Look
    • Manage Skins
      • Create, edit, delete multiple skins
      • Change the name, description, image set, and menu for each skin
      • Change the page width, page alignment, and logo image
      • Change skin color:
        • Advanced Mode - You have full control over colors and background images, fonts, font sizes
        • Basic Mode - Choose a single font, font size, and a base color. The rest is done for you. Even automatic gradients!
    • Manage Images
      • Create, edit, delete multiple sets of images
      • Change the name, description, smiley set, and icon set for each image set
    • Manage Smilies
      • Create, edit, delete multiple sets of smilies
      • Change the name, description of smiley set
      • Change the smiley code and smiley image url for each smiley
      • No limit to the number of smilies per set
    • Manage Icons
      • Create, edit, delete multiple sets of icons
      • Change the name, description of each icon set
      • Change the name and icon url of each icon
      • No limit to the number of icons per set
  • Feel
    • Manage Pages
      • Add code to the headers and footers of each page on your forum by entering it directly or including custom made modules
      • Multiple page types:
        • Global - Change the headers/footers of every page in one place
        • Homepage/Boards - Change the headers/footers of every forum oriented page on your forum
        • Custom Pages - Create, edit, delete your own pages with whatever content you want in them
    • Manage Modules
      • Create, edit, delete multiple modules
      • Change the link, description and content of each module
      • Modules contain bits of custom code that can be included into the headers/footers of pages
      • If you use the same code in multiple places, using modules will make inclusion and updating of that code quick and easy
    • Manage Menus
      • Create, edit, delete multiple menus
      • Change the name, description, whether menu buttons are above or below the logo, and the button type (use menu buttons, use custom menu)
      • Two menu types:
        • Use Menu Buttons
          • Create, edit, delete multiple menu buttons
          • Change the name, image url, link url, description, toggle whether it opens a new window or not, its position, and who can see it
        • Use Custom Menu
          • You have full control over the content of the menu
          • When this option is enabled, banner ads appear above the menu
  • Forum Maintenance
    • Remove Old Posts
      • Submit a request to remove posts older than 1, 2, or 3 months
      • Once submitted, your forum is entered into a queue for post removal
      • Before your posts are removed, your forum is backed up
      • You have up until the actual removal process begins to cancel your request
    • Restore From Backups
      • Backups occur once per month (30 days) since the last time your forum was backed up
      • Submit a request to backup your forum
      • Once submitted, your forum is entered into a queue for backing up
      • You have up until the actual restoration process begins to cancel your request