Nabble Review - Forum Features & Requirements

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Nabble is mainly known on Internet for providing Mailing List archiving. Many mailing lists are available and browseable from Nabble website, that everybody has a day encountered, for example when searching something on Google.

In addition to provide mailing list management and mailing list archiving, Nabble also provide a collection of embeddable applications: photo gallery, news, blog,... and of course, embeddable forum software.

These embeddable apps are all web applications, that includes the classic search, user profile, ACL, email notifications, XML feed, moderation, CSS customization, unlimited uploading of pictures and files, threading, cataloging, Youtube video embedding with Javascript,...

The embeddable technology provided by Nabble is more advanced than classic frame widget. With them, you won't have any problem of content underflows or overflows (frame scrolling is your only option), because Nabble embeddable app adjusts its height automatically and always fit seamlessly into a site.

Recommended Average Size of a Community

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

Nabble
Community Size Average

Server & Clients Requirements

Server Requirements
Server Technology
The technology on which this forum software is based on.
Nabble
is an
Hosted Service,
therefore
it does not have
any specific
Server Requirements.
Operating Systems Details
Systems supporting this software.
Web Servers Details
Web servers host the forum software.
Languages Details
Development language.
Databases Details
Systems that store forum datas.
Browsers & Clients Requirements
Compatible Browsers Details
List of compatible browsers.
Mozilla FirefoxOpera
Apple SafariKonqueror
Internet ExplorerGoogle Chrome
Mozilla SeaMonkey
Required Plugins/Technologies Details
What the user needs exactly to use this forum correctly.
Javascript, AJAX.
Languages supported by Nabble.
No No.
No.

New Languages will be soon supported.

As usual with Hosted Forum, server architecture is always really simple because everything is compatible with web based applications. You just need to integrate the embedded HTML code that Nabble provides to put a new forum to your website.

Here is an example of the HTML script you have to import:

<a id="nabblelink" 
      href="http://n2.nabble.com/Nabble-Forum-reviewed-f3274075.html">
  Nabble Forum reviewed by Forum Software Reviews
</a>
<script src="http://n2.nabble.com/embed/f3274075"></script>

Forum Threads & Posts

Forum Threads
Forum Style
General appearance of the topics.
Flat/Threaded
Thread Icons
An icon that identifies the type of a topic.
No No
Forum Organization
Organize your forum with categories, sections,...
  • Forum Categories
  • Sub Sections
Topic Tags
Could topics be organized by tags?
- -
Sticky Threads
Sticky threads stay at top of a section or a forum.
Yes Yes
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
Details about the manner to post messages.
  • Plain Text
  • Rich Text Editor
  • Formatting Buttons
  • Preview Button
 Emoticons Details Yes Yes
Attachments Details
Attach files (screenshot, archive,...) with a post.
Yes Yes 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 Details
Markup Language (HTML, Wiki, BBCode,...).
  • Plain
  • HTML
 Post by Email
Post to a topic directly from your email box.
- -
Message Rating
Users can rate the quality of other users posts.
Yes Yes Message Quoting
Quoting a post helps readers understand who answers who.
Yes Yes
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.
  • Website Home Page
  • Blog
  • Pictures Album Manager
 Users List
List of all user accounts, to helps users searching their friends.
Yes Yes
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,...
Yes Yes
Instant Messaging Details
Communicate in the forum like in other IM (Yahoo Messenger, Live Messenger, Google Talk,...)
No No RSS/Atom Syndication Details
New posts and threads available using aggregators Syndicate
RSS 2.0
Calendar No No Remote Control Details
Remote control from external softwares or websites.
No.
Poll Creation Details No No Friendly URLs
URLs are explicit and contains information about the topic (title, message,...). This is highly recommended for SEO purposes.
Yes Yes

Thread icons are limited to the avatar of the person who creates the topic.

There is no user ranks, but you can consult the profile of each user, and this profile could inform you about the activity of this user. A major point is that you are able to see the activity of a specific user on any forum that rely on Nabble.

Online users is an option that the administrator needs to enable (disable by default).

 
 
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