UltraBB Review - Forum Features & Requirements

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Sponsored by Data 1 Systems.
Current version 1.17 (December 25, 2008).
Released under Proprietary License.
Price $ 99.

From the UltraBB website:

Bring together friends, family, coworkers, enthusiast or simply people with similar interests with an instant online community using UltraBB!

UltraBB is a user friendly bulletin board software with an active community of satisfied customers and a staff that has a proven track record of speedy service and frequent updates. UltraBB has many features you would normally find in more expensive software but at a reasonable price.

UltraBB features:

  • Unlimited Members
  • Unlimited Categories
  • Unlimited Forums
  • Unlimited Subforums
  • Avatars
  • Attachments
  • Signatures
  • Emoticons
  • Private Messaging
  • WYSIWYG for Posting
  • Collapsible Categories
  • Friends List
  • Ignore List
  • Post Rating System
  • Notification on Topics
  • CAPTCHA Protection
  • Four themes included
  • Eight Menu Layouts

Overview

Our software is driven by PHP, utilizing a MySQL database. The features we frequently add to UltraBB are written with security and useability as a forethought in our Columbus, Ohio testing facility.
A good part of the development is driven by customer feedback on needed features. You need only read a few minutes on our public support board to discover this.

Review Updates

  • March 1, 2010: Update some features supported by UltraBB 1.17.

Recommended Average Size of a Community

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

UltraBB
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 XPSolaris
FreeBSDOpenBSD
NetBSD
Web Servers
Web servers host the forum software.
  • Apache 1.3
  • 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 UltraBB.
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.
Yes Yes
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.
Yes Yes
Posts
Message Editing Form
Details about the manner to post messages.
  • WYSIWYG Editor
Emoticons Yes Yes
Attachments
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
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.
No No 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.
  • Pictures Album Manager
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,...
Yes Yes
Instant Messaging
Communicate in the forum like in other IM (Yahoo Messenger, Live Messenger, Google Talk,...)
Yes Yes RSS/Atom Syndication
New posts and threads available using aggregators Syndicate
RSS 2.0
Calendar Yes Yes Remote Control
Remote control from external softwares or websites.
No.
Poll Creation Yes Yes Friendly URLs
URLs are explicit and contains information about the topic (title, message,...). This is highly recommended for SEO purposes.
No No

User Ranks are called Mana in UltraBB.

 
 
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