Fruit Show Review - General Features & Requirements

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Web Site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fruitshow
Download here: Download Fruit Show
Community Forum: Support
Released under: BSD License.
Current version: 0.6 (July 6, 2007).
Price: Free.

From Fruit Show Website:

FruitShow is a minimalist, free forum package based on the forums at www.joelonsoftware.com and designed for www.crazyontap.com. The philosophy is that social atmosphere is a by-product of software design. No registration, clean design, and easily skinable.

FruitShow was created in January of 2006 in response to Joel Spolsky closing the "Off Topic" Joel on Software forum after the tragic death of Chris McKinstry. To fill the gap, Wayne Venables created a clone of the FogBugz forum calling it FruitShow after a post made by Joel Spolsky.

Server & Clients Requirements

Server Requirements
Operating Systems
Systems supporting this software.
  • Linux
Web Server Details
Web servers host the forum software.
  • Apache 1.3
  • Apache 2.0/2.2
Languages Details
Development language.
  • PHP 4
  • PHP 5
Databases Details
Systems that store forum datas.
  • MySQL
  • Postgresql
Browsers & Clients Requirements
Compatible Browsers Details
List of compatible browsers.
  • Mozilla Firefox 3
  • Mozilla Firefox 2
  • Mozilla Firefox 1
  • Opera
  • Safari
  • Konqueror
  • Internet Explorer 7
  • Internet Explorer 6
  • Chrome
  • Mozilla SeaMonkey
Required Plugins/Technologies Details
What the user needs exactly to use this forum correctly.
  • HTML and Javascript
Localization Details
Languages supported by Fruit Show.
No No.

Forum Threads & Posts

Forum Threads
Forum Style
General appearance of the topics.
Flat
Social Networks
Users can share information from their social network account...
No.
Thread Icons
An icon that identifies the type of a topic.
No No
Forum Organization
Organize your forum with categories, sections,...
No.
Sticky Threads
Sticky threads stay at top of a section or a forum.
No No
Spell Checking
Posts and topics are spelled checked with a dictionary.
Unknown Unknown
Detect Duplicate Threads
Duplicate Threads are detected before creation.
No No
Shadow Topics
Some topics are only accessible to a limited list of users.
No No
Posts
Post Editing Form Details
Details about the manner to post messages.
  • Plain Text
 Emoticons Details No No
Post Editing Format Details
Markup Language (HTML, Wiki, BBCode,...).
  • Plain
 Attachments Details
Attach files (screenshot, archive,...) with a post.
No No
Post Quoting
Quoting a post helps readers understand who answers who.
No No Syntax Highlighting
Posted Source Code is formatted using colors.
No No
Post Rating
Users can rate the quality of other users posts.
No No

Key Features & Additional Tools

Key Features
Bundled Softwares
Softwares that are also available with the forum.
No. Users List Details
List of all user accounts, to helps users searching their friends.
No No
Private Messages Details
Users can communicate using an internal messaging system.
No No Online Users List
List of actually connected users, in the forum home page, a dedicated topic,...
No No
Instant Messaging Details
Communicate in the forum like in other IM (Yahoo Messenger, Live Messenger, Google Talk,...)
No No Quick Reply Box
Write a post directly from the topic page.
Yes Yes
Calendar Details No No Remote Control Details
Remote control from external softwares or websites.
No.
Poll Creation Details No No Friendly URLs
URLs are as short and simple as possible (for better copy/paste and share).
No No
RSS/Atom Syndication Details
New posts and threads available using aggregators Syndicate
RSS 2.0
 
 
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