UltraBB Review - General Features & Requirements

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Web Site: http://www.ultrabb.com
Download here: Download UltraBB
Community Forum: Support
Released under: Proprietary License.
Current version: 1.17 (December 25, 2008).
Sponsored By: Data 1 Systems.
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.

Server & Clients Requirements

Server Requirements
Operating Systems
Systems supporting this software.
  • Linux
  • Windows Server 2003
  • Windows XP
  • Solaris
  • FreeBSD
  • OpenBSD
  • NetBSD
Web Server Details
Web servers host the forum software.
  • Apache 1.3
  • Apache 2.0/2.2
  • Microsoft IIS
Languages Details
Development language.
  • PHP 4
  • PHP 5
Databases Details
Systems that store forum datas.
  • MySQL
Browsers & Clients Requirements
Compatible Browsers Details
List of compatible browsers.
  • Mozilla Firefox 3
  • Mozilla Firefox 2
  • Mozilla Firefox 1
  • Opera
  • Safari
  • Konqueror
  • Internet Explorer 7
  • Internet Explorer 6
  • Chrome
  • Mozilla SeaMonkey
Required Plugins/Technologies Details
What the user needs exactly to use this forum correctly.
  • HTML and Javascript
Localization Details
Languages supported by UltraBB.
No No.

Forum Threads & Posts

Forum Threads
Forum Style
General appearance of the topics.
Flat
Social Networks
Users can share information from their social network account...
No.
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
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.
Unknown Unknown
Detect Duplicate Threads
Duplicate Threads are detected before creation.
No No
Shadow Topics
Some topics are only accessible to a limited list of users.
Yes Yes
Posts
Post Editing Form Details
Details about the manner to post messages.
  • WYSIWYG Editor
 Emoticons Details Yes Yes
Post Editing Format Details
Markup Language (HTML, Wiki, BBCode,...).
  • HTML
  • BBCode
 Attachments Details
Attach files (screenshot, archive,...) with a post.
Yes Yes
Post Quoting
Quoting a post helps readers understand who answers who.
Yes Yes Syntax Highlighting
Posted Source Code is formatted using colors.
No No
Post Rating
Users can rate the quality of other users posts.
No No

Key Features & Additional Tools

Key Features
Bundled Softwares
Softwares that are also available with the forum.
  • Pictures Album Manager
 Users List Details
List of all user accounts, to helps users searching their friends.
Yes Yes
Private Messages Details
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 Details
Users can communicate in the forum like in other IM softwares (Yahoo Messenger, Live Messenger, Google Talk, AIM,...)
Yes Yes Quick Reply Box
Write a post directly from the topic page.
Yes Yes
Calendar Details Yes Yes Remote Control Details
Remote control from external softwares or websites.
No.
Poll Creation Details Yes Yes Friendly URLs
URLs are as short and simple as possible (for better copy/paste and share).
No No
RSS/Atom Syndication Details
New posts and threads available using aggregators (represented by the Syndicate icon)
RSS 2.0

User Ranks are called Mana in UltraBB.

 
 
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