Yet Another Forum Review - Forum Features & Requirements

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Current version 1.9.4 RC1 (December 8, 2009).
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From Yet Another Forum website:

YetAnotherForum.NET (YAF) is a Open Source discussion forum or bulletin board system
for web sites running ASP.NET. The latest version is ASP.NET v2.0 with a Microsoft
SQL Server backend. The full C# source code is available licensed as GPL.

Stable

YetAnotherForum.NET is stable and secure enough for a production environment.

Review Updates

  • February 22, 2010: Minor updates.
  • February 16, 2010: Update the review with YAF 1.9.4 RC1.

Recommended Average Size of a Community

This chart represents the recommendation of an average community size hosted with Yet Another Forum.

Yet Another Forum
Community Size Average

Server & Clients Requirements

Server Requirements
Server Technology
The technology on which this forum software is based on.
Microsoft .Net
Operating Systems
Systems supporting this software.
Windows Server 2003Windows XP
Web Servers
Web servers host the forum software.
  • Microsoft IIS
Languages
Development language.
  • C#
  • ASP.Net
Databases
Systems that store forum datas.
  • Microsoft SQL Server
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.
Languages supported by Yet Another Forum.
Yes Yes.
Supported Languages:
Arabic Arabic Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Simplified)
Czech Czech Danish Danish
English (American) English (American) English (British) English (British)
French French German German
Italian Italian Persian Persian
Portuguese (Brazilian) Portuguese (Brazilian) Russian Russian
Slovak Slovak Spanish Spanish
Vietnamese Vietnamese

Yet Another Forum is available on more than 20 languages. Language Packs could be found on the YAF.NET Official Language Community Forum.

A full Microsoft architecture is needed. Some tests should be made to see if the open source C#/ASP.Net Mono implementation works too.

Forum Threads & Posts

Forum Threads
Forum Style
General appearance of the topics.
Flat/Threaded
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.
- -
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.
  • Plain Text
  • 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,...).
  • 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.
Yes Yes 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,...)
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

Features are really complete, simple and powerful. No doubt on it, Yet Another Forum is a pure Internet Forum

 
 
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