E-Blah Review - Forum Features & Requirements

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Web Site E-Blah Website
Download E-Blah
Current version 10.3.6 (August 9, 2008).
Released under GPL License.
Price Free.

E-Blah is no longer maintained.

Official author announced in 2010 that he will not support E-Blah anymore.
It is therefore not adviced to use it, as no new security issues will be fixed.

From E-Blah Website:

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.

E-Blah History

E-Blah is what we can call an aggressive fork of the famous YaBB forum software. E-Blah main developer was indeed part of the development team of YaBB, but after some disagreements, he finally left the team and created its own product, E-Blah. He apparently tends to continue copying features from YaBB, from time to time.

Review Updates

Recommended Average Size of a Community

This chart represents the recommendation of an average community size hosted with E-Blah.

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Community Size Average

Server & Clients Requirements

Server Requirements
Server Technology
The technology on which this forum software is based on.
Perl
Operating Systems
Systems supporting this software.
Linux
Web Servers
Web servers host the forum software.
  • Apache 1.3
  • Apache 2.0/2.2
Languages
Development language.
  • Perl
Databases
Systems that store forum datas.
No.
Browsers & Clients Requirements
Compatible Browsers
List of compatible browsers.
Mozilla FirefoxInternet Explorer
Google ChromeOpera
Apple SafariKonqueror
Mozilla SeaMonkey
Required Plugins/Technologies
What the user needs exactly to use this forum correctly.
Javascript.
Languages supported by E-Blah.
No No.
No.

The E-Blah software uses its own database, by separating datas in several files.

Forum Threads & Posts

Forum Threads
Forum Style
General appearance of the topics.
Flat
Thread Icons
An icon that identifies the type of a topic.
Yes Yes
Forum Organization
Organize your forum with categories, sections,...
  • Forum Categories
  • Sub Sections
Topic Tags
Could topics be organized by tags?
- -
Sticky Threads
Sticky threads stay at top of a section or a forum.
Yes Yes
Spell Checking
Posts and topics are spelled checked with a dictionary.
- -
Related Threads
List additional topics that may be related to the current one.
- -
Detect Duplicate Threads
Duplicate Threads are detected before creation.
No No
Hidden Topics
Some topics are only accessible to a limited list of users.
Yes Yes
Posts
Message Editing Form
Details about the manner to post messages.
  • Formatting Buttons
  • Preview Button
Emoticons Yes Yes
Attachments
Attach files (screenshot, archive,...) with a post.
Yes Yes Syntax Highlighting
Posted Source Code is formatted using colors.
No No
Image Attachment
How images can be attached and displayed in message posts.
No.
Post Editing Format
Markup Language (HTML, Wiki, BBCode,...).
  • Plain
  • HTML
Post by Email
Post to a topic directly from your email box.
- -
Message Rating
Users can rate the quality of other users posts.
No No Message Quoting
Quoting a post helps readers understand who answers who.
Yes Yes
Announcements
Administrators can post announcements that are displayed everywhere in the forum. It is even more powerful than a pinned topic.
- -

Key Features & Additional Tools

Key Features
Bundled Softwares
Softwares that are also available with the forum.
  • Portal
  • Website Home Page
Users List
List of all user accounts, to helps users searching their friends.
Yes Yes
Private Messages
Users can communicate using an internal messaging system.
Yes Yes Online Users List
List of actually connected users, in the forum home page, a dedicated topic,...
Yes Yes
Instant Messaging
Communicate in the forum like in other IM (Yahoo Messenger, Live Messenger, Google Talk,...)
No No RSS/Atom Syndication
New posts and threads available using aggregators Syndicate
    Calendar Yes Yes Remote Control
    Remote control from external softwares or websites.
    No.
    Poll Creation Yes Yes Friendly URLs
    URLs are explicit and contains information about the topic (title, message,...). This is highly recommended for SEO purposes.
    No No
     
     
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