XennoBB Review

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Install: Positive (Normal)Admin: Positive (Normal)
Use: PositivePositive (Easy)Themes: Yes Yes
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Brief Description of XennoBB


Released under : GPL License.
Current version : 2.3.3 (September 9, 2006).
Live Demonstration : XennoBB Demo.
Sponsored By : Xenno Group.
Web Site : None
Download here : XennoBB.

Installation : Positive (Normal)
Administration : Positive (Normal)
Forum Using : PositivePositive (Easy)
Our Opinion : FullFullNoneNoneNone
Users : FullFullFullHalfNone (Rate it)

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.

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 Architecture

Features Details
Operating Systems Details
Systems supporting this software.
  • Linux
  • Windows XP
Web Server Details
Web servers provide the forum software to the users.
  • Apache 1.3
  • Apache 2.0/2.2
Languages Details
Main development language.
  • PHP 4
  • PHP 5
Databases Details
Systems storing forum datas.
  • MySQL

W3C Norms and Accessibility

Type Norms
Compatible Browsers Details
List of compatible browsers.
All
Technologies or plugins required Details
The information helps you to know what the user needs exactly to use this forum correctly.
HTML and Javascript
HTML / XHTML Details
Click on the image link to test that the forum respect those HTML norms.
Based on XHTML 1.0 Strict.
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Stylesheets (CSS) Details
Click on the image link to test that the forum respect those CSS norms.
Based on CSS 2.
CSS 2
Accessibility (WAI) Details
Conformance to AA level.
AA
This software respects W3C Norms Details
Does this software correctly follows (X)HTML and CSS norms.
Yes Yes.
Localization Details
The forum software exists in several languages.
Yes Yes.

Technical Features

Technical Features Details
UTF-8 Support
Default encoding that could be used for all locales and countries.
Unknown Unknown
Installation Method
How this forum software could be installed
Upgrade Method
How this forum software could be upgraded
CMS / Blog integration Details
Web publishing tools which can be integrated with this software.
None
Users Database integration Details
This feature is useful when you would like to integrate your forum with an existing solution.
None
Template Engine Details
It is generally easier to theme a forum using a famous template engine (more docs, more examples,...)
Web Services / XML-RPC Details
Remote control from external softwares or websites.
No

About CMS integration, XennoBB provides a special version of its forum. This version, called XennoBB SE (Special Edition) integrates by default a simple CMS system. This is a particularly useful solution for webmasters that do not want to search for a CMS and a forum software that interoperate easily.

For more information, consult the XennoBB homepage.


Comments

Do not use XennoBB!

XennoBB has and always will be fake. It has copied instances of MyBB, phpBB, UseBB, PunBB, vBulletin, and who knows what else. You'll even find that XennoBB's home page no longer exists.

XennoBB is NOT legitimate software; it is illegal.

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XennoBB

I installed this one last night, and had it completely configured for regular use and running on one of my sites in less than an 30 minutes.. It has a nice, professional look.. clean code.. great performance.. and built-in html tag features (ads / buttons..) that I usually have to add by hand in most other BB's.. RSS features are an extra bonus.. it's a great setup!!

I haven't tried the SE edition yet.. that's tonights project.. I'll get back to you on that one ;)

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