Zoho Discussions Review - General Features & Requirements
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| Web Site: | http://discussions.zoho.com/ |
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| Download here: | Download Zoho Discussions |
| Community Forum: | Support |
| Released under: | Proprietary License. |
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| Current version: | Hosted (December, 2009). |
| Sponsored By: | Zoho Corp. |
| Price: | Free for Free Edition, $12 for Basic Edition, $25 for Standard Edition and $75 for Professional Edition. |
Zoho Discussions is one of the huge list of services provided by Zoho.com company. Even if this company holds an important list of different web applications, focus has clearly been put on the Zoho Discussions softwares, that is clearly a really modern and ergonomic application.
You will discover in this review that AJAX and Web 2.0 common features have met for the real time bulletin boards, and that fusion is called Zoho Discussions.
Please note that features that are not available on Free Edition are put as Plugin in the review. Those features could be enabled by using a Basic, Standard, Professional or Custom Edition of Zoho Discussions.
Pricing Details
Server & Clients Requirements
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Operating Systems
Systems supporting this software.
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Web Server 
Web servers host the forum software.
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Languages
Development language.
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No. | |
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Databases
Systems that store forum datas.
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No. | |
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Compatible Browsers
List of compatible browsers.
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Required Plugins/Technologies
What the user needs exactly to use this forum correctly.
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Localization
Languages supported by Zoho Discussions.
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 Yes.
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The hosted architecture does not force us to know and consider the technologies used behind the scene. This is an advantage for beginners.
Forum Threads & Posts
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Forum Style
General appearance of the topics.
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Flat/Threaded |
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Social Networks
Users can share information from their social network account...
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No. |
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Thread Icons
An icon that identifies the type of a topic.
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Yes |
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Forum Organization
Organize your forum with categories, sections,...
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Sticky Threads
Sticky threads stay at top of a section or a forum.
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Yes |
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Spell Checking
Posts and topics are spelled checked with a dictionary.
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 Unknown |
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Detect Duplicate Threads
Duplicate Threads are detected before creation.
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 No |
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Shadow Topics
Some topics are only accessible to a limited list of users.
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Yes |
| Posts | |||
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Post Editing Form
Details about the manner to post messages.
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Emoticons
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Yes |
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Post Editing Format
Markup Language (HTML, Wiki, BBCode,...).
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Attachments
Attach files (screenshot, archive,...) with a post.
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Yes |
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Post Quoting
Quoting a post helps readers understand who answers who.
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Yes |
Syntax Highlighting
Posted Source Code is formatted using colors.
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Yes |
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Post Rating
Users can rate the quality of other users posts.
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Yes |
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Key Features & Additional Tools
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Bundled Softwares
Softwares that are also available with the forum.
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Users List
List of all user accounts, to helps users searching their friends.
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Yes |
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Private Messages
Users can communicate using an internal messaging system.
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Yes |
Online Users List
List of actually connected users, in the forum home page, a dedicated topic,...
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Yes |
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Instant Messaging
Communicate in the forum like in other IM (Yahoo Messenger, Live Messenger, Google Talk,...)
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Quick Reply Box
Write a post directly from the topic page.
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Yes |
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Calendar
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No |
Remote Control
Remote control from external softwares or websites.
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No. |
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Poll Creation
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No |
Friendly URLs
URLs are as short and simple as possible (for better copy/paste and share).
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Yes |
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RSS/Atom Syndication
New posts and threads available using aggregators
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