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YaBB Review and Live Demonstration Available

YaBB has just been reviewed and you can consult this article on YaBB Review.

An updated version has been installed as well to let you test and discover this software via the YaBB Live Demonstration.

The most famous Perl based free forum software has finally been reviewed here. We express our sincere regrets for the time we took to finally test and integrate YaBB to our forum software list. It's now time to review it!

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Announcing the new Jobs section

Some of you have may noticed the new Jobs section on the top menu of Forum Software Reviews. This section will be helpful for anyone that looks for a job, and more particularly work-from-home jobs. If you are an expert of forum software and forum designing, this is going to be the place where you need to be!

Companies have of course not been forgotten: if you desperately lack of human resources, the Jobs section is also a perfect place to post your projects. Looking for a PHP developer for months for integrating your website to a more social network dimension? Then Post your project on the Jobs board right now! Determine your price, wait for bids from professionals, and choose the most skilled for your project!

Forum Software Reviews and our partner DoNanza are really proud to announce this platform to link web companies, developers and designers.

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FreeForums Review and Live Demonstration Available

FreeForums has just been reviewed and you can consult this article on FreeForums Review.

An updated version has been installed as well to let you test and discover this software via the FreeForums Live Demonstration.

We created an account at FreeForums.org some times ago, just to see how their dedicated administration panel works on top of PhpBB 3. We haven't be disappointed, it drastically improves the administration tasks of this bulletin board.

Let's discover this forum hosting provider, that exists since 2007.

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Summer Front Page updates

Summer is already well advanced, and most of you are in holidays, but for those who are not, we are proud to show you the new improvements we made on our front page. The timeline and the forum of the year are now on the left column at the top, and up to 15 forum softwares are now displayed in the forum carousel.

Really aware users should also have noticed a small update on the page header 2 days ago. It is now a little bit thiner, in order to improve usability for small screens (particularly for laptops, notebooks, iPad and so on).

Note that the Focus on... feature came back from the bottom to the top.

As usual, please report any problem you encounter, and do not forget to take a screenshot and tell us which browser you are using.

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Announcing the Forum Softwares Timeline 1996 - 2010

Have you ever been curious about knowing what was the first forum software? What were the ancestors of the popular and recent forum softwares? Or when phpBB development began?

These questions are now solved with the Forum Softwares Timeline! From 1996 to 2010, the 14 years of history of Internet forum softwares are described in this diagram.

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NearForums Review and Live Demonstration Available

NearForums has just been reviewed and you can consult the 4 pages of this article on NearForums Review.

An updated version has been installed as well to let you test and discover this software via the NearForums Live Demonstration.

To change a little bit, here is the review of a very recent forum software, NearForums, an open source software based on the well known Microsoft .Net technology.

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Woltlab Burning Board Reviewed

Coming from Germany, Burning Board exists since 2001 and could be defined as a really powerful commercial alternative to other classic forum softwares... Burning Board is edited by the WoltLab company, and counts more than 100,000 active installations.

You can consult the Woltlab Burning Board Review here.

An updated version has been installed as well to let you test and discover this software via the Woltlab Burning Board Live Demonstration.

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Tal.ki Review and Live Demonstration Available

Tal.ki has just been reviewed and you can consult the 4 pages of this article on Tal.ki Review.

An updated version has been installed as well to let you test and discover this software via the Tal.ki Live Demonstration.

A new service from Lefora guys is born: Tal.ki. Its aim is pretty simple: embed a forum on any website just by adding a small snippet of Javascript code. This is clearly revolutionary, and absolutely outstanding, as you will discover in the Tal.ki review...

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PunBB 1.3.4 Review Updated

One year after the latest release of PunBB, version 1.3.4, Forum Software Reviews has reviewed it again and the PunBB Review has been updated. This is finally done, and please note that the same really good score of 7/10 has been given to PunBB, as it is still, without any doubt, a great forum software when you look for simplicity and ease of use.

We also take the time to update the PunBB live demonstration, that wasn't updated since the creation of this website, 4 years ago! (actually, PunBB was the second forum we reviewed here).

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Drupal Tip #4: Add "Views Count" column

It could be really interesting for your members to have an idea of how many times a subject has been viewed or read. Unfortunately, Drupal does not provide this in the default forum module, but it already provides some key features that helps integrating this views count really nicely and easily.

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The following article asserts that you already know well or understand how the hook and theme system of Drupal works. If not, you should consult the Drupal Theme and How to use the Theme layer in Drupal 6 documentation.
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