Unclassified NewsBoard Review - Forum Features & Requirements

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Current version 1.6.4 (September 9, 2007).
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The Unclassified NewsBoard (short UNB) is an open-source, PHP-based internet bulletin board system, mostly like those you may already know. But the difference is in a lot of details that make your life with this board, both as administrator and user, much easier. You’ll be surprised how easy things can be and how fast you can work with such a system!

The Unclassified NewsBoard has a lot of innovative features the world has never seen before in this way. I run this project in my spare time, mostly because over two years ago, none of the freely available forum systems fully convinced me and because I found fun in that job.

Review Updates

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  • April 6th, 2010: Review Update with Unclassified Newsboard, development version (2010.03.24).
  • Recommended Average Size of a Community

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

    Unclassified NewsBoard
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    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 XPFreeBSD
    OpenBSDNetBSD
    Windows Server 2008Mac OS
    Web Servers
    Web servers host the forum software.
    • Apache 1.3
    • Apache 2.0/2.2
    • Microsoft IIS
    • Lighttpd
    • Nginx
    Languages
    Development language.
    • PHP 4
    • PHP 5
    Databases
    Systems that store forum datas.
    • MySQL
    Browsers & Clients Requirements
    Compatible Browsers
    List of compatible browsers.
    Mozilla FirefoxInternet Explorer
    Google ChromeOpera
    Apple SafariKonqueror
    Mozilla SeaMonkey
    Required Plugins/Technologies
    What the user needs exactly to use this forum correctly.
    Javascript, AJAX.
    Languages supported by Unclassified NewsBoard.
    Yes Yes.
    Supported Languages:
    Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Simplified) Czech Czech
    Danish Danish Dutch Dutch
    English (American) English (American) English (British) English (British)
    French French German German
    Italian Italian Magyar Magyar
    Norwegian Norwegian Polish Polish
    Portuguese Portuguese Portuguese (Brazilian) Portuguese (Brazilian)
    Romanian Romanian Russian Russian
    Serbian Serbian Spanish Spanish
    Swedish Swedish Thai Thai
    Turkish Turkish

    As a LAMP-based forum software, Unclassified Newsboard will run fine anywhere you could install a PHP runtime and a MySQL server.

    Forum Threads & Posts

    Forum Threads
    Forum Style
    General appearance of the topics.
    Flat
    Thread Icons
    An icon that identifies the type of a topic.
    No No
    Forum Organization
    Organize your forum with categories, sections,...
    • Forum Categories
    • URL Redirection Forum
    • 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.
    No No
    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.
    • 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.
    Yes Yes
    Image Attachment
    How images can be attached and displayed in message posts.
    No.
    Post Editing Format
    Markup Language (HTML, Wiki, BBCode,...).
    • Plain
    • BBCode
    Post by Email
    Post to a topic directly from your email box.
    No No
    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.
    - -

    The syntax highlighting uses the GeSHi system, that supports a long list of languages (Python, C++, Java, PHP, HTML, CSS,...). New languages can be installed directly into Unclassified Newsboard by putting the GeSHi template files into the unb_lib/geshi folder of your local installation.

    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.
    No No 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,...)
    No No RSS/Atom Syndication
    New posts and threads available using aggregators Syndicate
    RSS 2.0
    Calendar No No 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.
    Yes Yes

    To activate the friendly URLs, simply sets up the named_urls in the configuration file of UNB (board.conf.php).

     
     
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