MesDiscussions Review - Forum Features & Requirements

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Sponsored by No One Development.
Current version 2007.1 (July, 2006).
Released under Proprietary License.
Price Free.

Description

MesDiscussions.net is a french software used in major web sites of the french Internet.

MesDiscussions.net respects W3c norms, can support a really heavy loading and is really powerful. The only problem is its license, but you will find on the official web site dedicated hosting solution. This is particularly useful for communities or companies that looks for a powerful and a easy-to-manage forum software. MesDiscussions.net also provides a module helping your website be known by search engines and increasing its pagerank and its referencing.

MesDiscussions Usage on major websites

You will find MesDiscussions.net forum on the following websites :

Recommended Average Size of a Community

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

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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.
LinuxWindows Server 2003
Windows XP
Web Servers
Web servers host the forum software.
  • Apache 2.0/2.2
  • Microsoft IIS
Languages
Development language.
  • PHP 4
  • PHP 5
Databases
Systems that store forum datas.
  • MySQL
Browsers & Clients Requirements
Compatible Browsers
List of compatible browsers.
Mozilla FirefoxOpera
Apple SafariKonqueror
Internet ExplorerGoogle Chrome
Mozilla SeaMonkey
Required Plugins/Technologies
What the user needs exactly to use this forum correctly.
Javascript.
Languages supported by MesDiscussions.
Yes Yes.
No.

We do not have many details about MesDiscussions.net technologies, but we know that it uses the famous LAMP solution (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).

Forum Threads & Posts

Forum Threads
Forum Style
General appearance of the topics.
Thread Icons
An icon that identifies the type of a topic.
- -
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.
- -
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.
- -
Hidden Topics
Some topics are only accessible to a limited list of users.
- -
Posts
Message Editing Form
Details about the manner to post messages.
  • WYSIWYG Editor
  • Formatting Buttons
  • Preview Button
Emoticons Yes Yes
Attachments
Attach files (screenshot, archive,...) with a post.
Yes Yes Syntax Highlighting
Posted Source Code is formatted using colors.
- -
Image Attachment
How images can be attached and displayed in message posts.
No.
Post Editing Format
Markup Language (HTML, Wiki, BBCode,...).
  • HTML
  • BBCode
Post by Email
Post to a topic directly from your email box.
- -
Message Rating
Users can rate the quality of other users posts.
- - Message Quoting
Quoting a post helps readers understand who answers who.
- -
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.
Yes Yes
Private Messages
Users can communicate using an internal messaging system.
Yes Yes Online Users List
List of actually connected users, in the forum home page, a dedicated topic,...
- -
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 1.0
Calendar No No Remote Control
Remote control from external softwares or websites.
  • XML/RPC
Poll Creation Yes Yes Friendly URLs
URLs are explicit and contains information about the topic (title, message,...). This is highly recommended for SEO purposes.
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The header, footer,... can be configured depending of the current forum of the user, that able administrator to do what they want with their forum. Of course, you can add PHP code in these parts, to display dynamic information.

Statistics are provided in the Administration Panel, to display traffic, messages posted, by month, term and year...

 
 
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