XennoBB Review - General Features & Requirements

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Web Site: No.
Download here: No.
Community Forum: Support
Released under: GPL License.
Current version: 2.3.3 (September 9, 2006).
Sponsored By: Xenno Group.
Price: Free.

From XennoBB website:

Welcome to the webpage of the world's most revolutionary and easy to use bulletin board.

Revolutionary because it redefines the boundaries of usability and power; from the first version it's a real alternative to the commercial forums out there.

How can XennoBB be described in few words? Lightning-speed, stable, secured and modern.

Who's the team behind this project? A young but experimented team who wanted to create a forum that will be different from the ones available today.

Review Updates

  • Year 2007: Please note that XennoBB no longer exists. In 2007, XennoBB did not respect the GPL License (XennoBB was based on PunBB and Puntal), and after many complaints from original software developers, this project was finally cancelled. Some rumors inform us that the Smurof project could be based on the original XennoBB source.

Server & Clients Requirements

Server Requirements
Operating Systems
Systems supporting this software.
  • Linux
  • Windows XP
Web Server Details
Web servers host the forum software.
  • Apache 1.3
  • Apache 2.0/2.2
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.
  • All
Required Plugins/Technologies Details
What the user needs exactly to use this forum correctly.
  • HTML and Javascript
Localization Details
Languages supported by XennoBB.
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,...
No.
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.
Yes Yes
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.
  • Rich Text Editor
 Emoticons Details No No
Post Editing Format Details
Markup Language (HTML, Wiki, BBCode,...).
  • Plain
  • BBCode
 Attachments Details
Attach files (screenshot, archive,...) with a post.
No No
Post Quoting
Quoting a post helps readers understand who answers who.
Yes Yes Syntax Highlighting
Posted Source Code is formatted using colors.
Unknown Unknown
Post Rating
Users can rate the quality of other users posts.
Yes Yes

Key Features & Additional Tools

Key Features
Bundled Softwares
Softwares that are also available with the forum.
No. Users List Details
List of all user accounts, to helps users searching their friends.
No No
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,...)
Plugin Plugin Quick Reply Box
Write a post directly from the topic page.
Yes Yes
Calendar Details Plugin Plugin Remote Control Details
Remote control from external softwares or websites.
No.
Poll Creation Details No No Friendly URLs
URLs are as short and simple as possible (for better copy/paste and share).
Yes Yes
RSS/Atom Syndication Details
New posts and threads available using aggregators Syndicate
RSS 2.0
The redirect page can quickly begin boring when you're doing administration tasks. Indeed, each request to the forum causes an HTML redirect (using a <meta> tag). This would be more interesting to directly make a HTTP redirect, which is hidden to the user.
 
 
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