Forum Software Reviews

Last year, Beehive Forum has been updated to the 0.9.1 version. Forum Software Reviews has therefore updated its review again. Some cool improvements have been done, but the old frameset base of Beehive Forum is still in place, unfortunately... However, the rating score has been increased from 3/10 to 4/10.

For people following news about UltraBB, you could be interesting in the little adding appended to the UltraBB review. Indeed, it missed some important features, and those mistakes are now fixed. Thanks to the community for reporting such errors.

Do not hesitate to contact me through the Community Forum if you have any other remarks about UltraBB or any other forum software. I will try to answer you as soon as possible.

Staying in the Simple Machines world (see the previous news), Forum Software Reviews is proud to announce the availability of the Simple Machines 2.0 RC2 Live Demonstration on its server.

This preview will allow you to discover the impressive list of changes and improvements that will be bundled with the next major release of Simple Machines. The 2.0 release is developed since more than 3 years, and SMF developers have only one requirement before releasing: everything needs to be clean and finished.

Let's discover Simple Machines 2.0 RC2 here:

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To celebrate this, Simple Machines is also promoted as the Forum of the Month (for people who don't know what it is, it's the Focus on block on the main page). Without any doubts, with the Best Free Forum Software of 2010 price, 2010 is really the year of Simple Machines.

The Simple Machines team has released the eleventh maintenance version of Simple Machines 1.1.11 in December 2009. It was time for Forum Software Reviews to do some updates on its Simple Machines review, that was getting old.

This is now done, and you will find there some fixes, additional information and lists of modules (Modifications in the SMF terminology) that could be useful for Forum Webmasters.

Please also not that the Live Demonstration has been reinstalled with the latest version of SMF 1.1.11.

Even if we impatiently wait for FluxBB 1.4 final version (RC1 has already been released), Forum Software Reviews has finally just review the current stable version of FluxBB 1.2.22.

As usual, FluxBB goals are clear: do the most clean and elegant forum software, without any useless features, like polls, attachments,... The accent is only to put the emphasis on simplicity and ergonomy, and we could admit that they damnly do it right!

To celebrate the tenth release candidate of IceBB, Forum Software Reviews has finally just reviewed it again.

The final score has been increased, as the work done is pretty impressive and could now perfectly suit small communities.