| MyBB | Simple Machines | |
|---|---|---|
| Plugins |
 Yes
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Yes
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| Themes |
Yes
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Yes
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| Captcha |
Yes
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Yes
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| Syndication |
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| Emoticons |
Yes
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Yes
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| Avatars |
Yes
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Yes
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This option is useful for webmaster who wants to allow non logged users to post messages to their forum. This can be however dangerous if the forum is being attacked by spam bots.
This feature is generally useful for technical forums that generally need files attachments with posted messages. It avoids users to first upload to their own FTP server and then link these files to their message.
The attachment can be images or patches for example, for developers or designers forums.
Captcha protections aims to avoid spam bots by asking to the user a Turing test to be sure he is a real user, and not a bot.
The email notifications option helps forum users to stay informed about new posts or new threads. When a modification occurs, the forum automatically send mails to people who request for.
The instant messaging feature is not really widespread but can be interested if you want to let forum users to directly chat without posting to the forum.
Some moderators generally disagree conversations that users can have on a specifical thread, mainly if the talks has no direct link with the original subject. The instant messaging feature can be a good solution to this problem, because users will prefer use it rather than the asynchronous talks in specifical threads.
Everybody knows these little cute images that we can found in every instant messaging program and in some web sites. This option is generally provided with forum softwares, but can be volontary forgotten if the software wants to be fast and easily readable.
These kind of filters can protect young user against coarseness from some users by replacing these words by stars (i.e.: *****) or by simply removing them.
Here are examples of existing posts forms :
RSS
Twitter
Youtube
Facebook
