Extreme Message Board Review - General Features & Requirements
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| Web Site: | http://www.xmbforum.com/ |
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| Download here: | Download Extreme Message Board |
| Community Forum: | Support |
| Released under: | GPL License. |
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| Current version: | 1.9.6-rc1 (2005). |
| Sponsored By: | XMB Software. |
| Price: | Free. |
From Extreme Message Board (XMB) Documentation :
XMB 1.9.1 provides forum administrators with one of the highest performing, most secure forums available.
Server & Clients Requirements
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Operating Systems
Systems supporting this software.
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Web Server 
Web servers host the forum software.
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Languages
Development language.
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Databases
Systems that store forum datas.
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Compatible Browsers
List of compatible browsers.
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Required Plugins/Technologies
What the user needs exactly to use this forum correctly.
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Localization
Languages supported by Extreme Message Board.
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 Yes.
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Since the 1.6 release of Extreme Message Board, this software had the reputation of a resource hog. This is no longer the case today, and the trend seems to be the opposite now, because XMB can easily support an high traffic.
You will find more information about XMB in :
- XMB Forums : for free support for your XMB forums
- XMB Member's Forum : for Premier Members
- XMBHacks : for hack or modification support
Forum Threads & Posts
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Forum Style
General appearance of the topics.
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Social Networks
Users can share information from their social network account...
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No. |
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Thread Icons
An icon that identifies the type of a topic.
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 Unknown |
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Forum Organization
Organize your forum with categories, sections,...
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No. |
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Sticky Threads
Sticky threads stay at top of a section or a forum.
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Unknown |
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Spell Checking
Posts and topics are spelled checked with a dictionary.
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Unknown |
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Detect Duplicate Threads
Duplicate Threads are detected before creation.
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Unknown |
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Shadow Topics
Some topics are only accessible to a limited list of users.
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Unknown |
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Post Editing Form
Details about the manner to post messages.
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Emoticons
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Yes |
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Post Editing Format
Markup Language (HTML, Wiki, BBCode,...).
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Attachments
Attach files (screenshot, archive,...) with a post.
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 No |
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Post Quoting
Quoting a post helps readers understand who answers who.
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Unknown |
Syntax Highlighting
Posted Source Code is formatted using colors.
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Unknown |
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Post Rating
Users can rate the quality of other users posts.
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Unknown |
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Key Features & Additional Tools
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Bundled Softwares
Softwares that are also available with the forum.
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No. |
Users List
List of all user accounts, to helps users searching their friends.
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Yes |
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Private Messages
Users can communicate using an internal messaging system.
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Yes |
Online Users List
List of actually connected users, in the forum home page, a dedicated topic,...
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Unknown |
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Instant Messaging
Communicate in the forum like in other IM (Yahoo Messenger, Live Messenger, Google Talk,...)
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No |
Quick Reply Box
Write a post directly from the topic page.
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Unknown |
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Calendar
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No |
Remote Control
Remote control from external softwares or websites.
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No. |
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Poll Creation
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Yes |
Friendly URLs
URLs are as short and simple as possible (for better copy/paste and share).
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Unknown |
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RSS/Atom Syndication
New posts and threads available using aggregators
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This forum supports the features you will see in main forum software, nothing less, nothing more.
We had however found some bugs in XMB, and we hope that this listing will help people who encounter the same issues :
- We encounter some problems with the XMB installation : you should first edit configuration file (config.phpà directly, and then verify it, using install/ URL.
- You need to connect as Secure Login if you want it to work (not in the default page, first click on the Login link at the top in the header). The default page did not work with the following configuration : Ubuntu / Apache 2 / PHP 5 / MySQL 5
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