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FUDForum Review - Users, Security & Customization

Thu April 2, 2009 14:49 |

User Profiles & Options

Some details about what users can do and are able to use in FUDForum.

User Profiles & Options
	User Profile The user profile allows the user to modify its personal information and even sometimes customize the forum for his account. For example, administrators can activate several themes that users can select to change the look of the forum. Click for more information... User Information and Configuration.	Yes
	Avatars Pictures of users, useful to easier identify their posts.	Yes
	Signature Signatures added in the bottom of each message.	Yes
	Ranks Tags and labels identifying users, depending on different criteria (posts count, credits, moderation levels...)	Yes
	Unread Topics Once connected, a user could know which are the topics he has never read.	Yes
	Bookmark Threads List of interesting topics and posts in user profiles.	Yes
	Email Notifications 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. Click for more information... Receive an email when messages are posted in followed threads.	Yes
	Export private messages All private messages could be downloaded by users.	Yes
	Payment Subscriptions Paying Membership Subscription.	-

Security & Spam Protection

Security & Spam Protection
CAPTCHA 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. Click for more information... Captcha protects your forum against spam bots. e.g.,	Yes
Abnormal Behavior Detection Detect users or request strange behaviors, and try to process proactive actions.	-
Words Filtering 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. Click for more information... Offensing Words are automatically replaced.	Yes
User Blacklist Prevent specific user accounts to register (based on email address, name,...) and disable potentially harmful members.	Yes
IP Blocking Prevent access to spam robots and other scripts that could attempt DDOS or Brute Force attacks on your forum.	Yes

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Customization

Customization
Plugins Plugins are additional files that webmaster can add to its default forum installation. These plugins (or modifications / mods) adds features that are not supported by default by the forum. For example, it can add image upload to user messages, add administration options,... Some forum software greatly uses the mods architecture by providing a poor featured forum, which can be easily improved by tons of plugins. Plugins can be really interested if a webmaster would like to improve forum interactivity or integration with its website. Generally, you can find a list of existing plugins on the official website of the forum software. Click for more information... Add new features to your forum installation.	No.
Themes Themes are packages, or even simple files that the forum administrator can add to its default forum installation. These themes can then be selected to totally change the layout and the look and feel of the forum. Click for more information... Modify the style of your forum easily.	Yes.
Custom BBCodes New custom BBCode keywords	Yes	Custom Emoticons Additional Custom Emoticons (through packs, web interface,...)	Yes
Custom Thread Icons New custom Thread Icons (through packs, web interface,...)	Yes	Custom User Profile Fields Add new fields to user profile, to know more about them, and specialize your forum.	No

Integration with Third Applications and Websites
Social Networks Users can share information from their social network account...	No.
CMS / Blog Bridges This information lists all blog and CMS softwares that can fully integrate a specified forum. By integration, we mean that there is only one user base, the log in process must be the same (when a user is connected to the forum, it is automatically logged on the blog or CMS, and respectively) Examples: Drupal, Joomla, Mambo, Plone, Dotclear, WordPress, eGroupWare, e107, XOOPs, iGaming CMS. Click for more information... Integration with existing Web publishing tools.	Drupal eGroupWare
User Accounts Integration What are the softwares that could integrate their existing accounts into your forum. Examples: LDAP, Active Directory, Facebook Connect, Google Accounts, OpenId, Windows Live ID, Other Databases, Google Apps, Yahoo, Twitter, MySpace, AOL, WordPress, Linkedin, Blogger, myOpenID. Click for more information... Do users be able to log in with their corporate, Google, Facebook,... accounts?	No.

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