Fruit Show Review - Forum Features & Requirements

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Web Site Fruit Show Website
Download Fruit Show
Current version 0.6 (July 6, 2007).
Released under BSD License.
Price Free.

Fruit Show is no longer maintained.

Fruit Show can be considered as no longer active, as nothing new came since 2007.
It is therefore not adviced to use it, as no new security issues will be fixed.

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.

Recommended Average Size of a Community

This chart represents the recommendation of an average community size hosted with Fruit Show.

Fruit Show
Community Size Average

Server & Clients Requirements

Server Requirements
Server Technology
The technology on which this forum software is based on.
PHP
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.
  • PHP 4
  • PHP 5
Databases
Systems that store forum datas.
  • MySQL
  • Postgresql
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 Fruit Show.
No No.
No.

Forum Threads & Posts

Forum Threads
Forum Style
General appearance of the topics.
Flat
Thread Icons
An icon that identifies the type of a topic.
No No
Forum Organization
Organize your forum with categories, sections,...
No.
Topic Tags
Could topics be organized by tags?
- -
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.
- -
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.
No No
Posts
Message Editing Form
Details about the manner to post messages.
  • Plain Text
Emoticons No No
Attachments
Attach files (screenshot, archive,...) with a post.
No No 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
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.
No No
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.
No. Users List
List of all user accounts, to helps users searching their friends.
No No
Private Messages
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
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
RSS 2.0
Calendar No No Remote Control
Remote control from external softwares or websites.
No.
Poll Creation No No 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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