Forumotion Review - General Features & Requirements
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| Web Site: | http://www.forumotion.com/ |
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| Download here: | Download Forumotion |
| Community Forum: | Support |
| Released under: | Proprietary License. |
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| Current version: | Hosted. (April 24, 2009). |
| Price: | Free. |
From Forumotion Website:
Forumotion is a professional, easy to use, free forum hosting service. We offer you the best free forums softwares: PhpBB 2 and 3, Invision (IPB) and PunBB! Our free message boards will provide you with the best quality and stability you can get in free forum hosting. Create a forum today and start your community!
- Free and unlimited forum. Unlimited messages and users
- Change your forum version at any moment
- phpBB2 | phpBB3 | punBB | Invision
- Free image hosting
- Domain name + Customized emails
- Automatic and secured updates.
- Chat box, gallery, portal, calendar, Role playing game...
- 3000+ free skins for your forums
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 Forumotion.
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 Yes.
Supported Languages are listed here. |
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Forum Threads & Posts
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Forum Style
General appearance of the topics.
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Flat/Threaded |
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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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Yes |
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Forum Organization
Organize your forum with categories, sections,...
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Sticky Threads
Sticky threads stay at top of a section or a forum.
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Yes |
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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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 No |
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Shadow Topics
Some topics are only accessible to a limited list of users.
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Yes |
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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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Yes |
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Post Quoting
Quoting a post helps readers understand who answers who.
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Yes |
Syntax Highlighting
Posted Source Code is formatted using colors.
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Yes |
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Post Rating
Users can rate the quality of other users posts.
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Yes |
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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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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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Yes |
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Instant Messaging
Communicate in the forum like in other IM (Yahoo Messenger, Live Messenger, Google Talk,...)
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Yes |
Quick Reply Box
Write a post directly from the topic page.
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Yes |
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Calendar
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Yes |
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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Yes |
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RSS/Atom Syndication
New posts and threads available using aggregators
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Note that the forum features depend on the Forum Software you choose. Please refer to the related forum software reviews for more details:
- PhpBB 3 Review
- PhpBB 2 Review
- PunBB Review
- Invision Review - Not available for the moment.
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