MesDiscussions Review
Last Version | 2007.1 (July, 2006). | Released under | Proprietary License. |
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Company | No One Development. | ||
Price | Free. |
Last Version | 2007.1 (July, 2006). | Released under | Proprietary License. |
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Company | No One Development. | ||
Price | Free. |
MesDiscussion is a French software used by major web sites of the french Internet.
MesDiscussions respects W3c norms, can support a really heavy load and is really powerful. You'll find only one bad point with this tool: its license, but fortunately, the official website provides a dedicated hosting solution.
This is particularly useful for communities or companies which are looking for a powerful and a easy-to-manage forum software. MesDiscussions also provides the classical SEO module, helping your website to be crawled by search engines and, indirectly, helping the increase of its pagerank.
You will find MesDiscussions.net forum on the following websites:
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Programming Language
Required Architecture and Versions.
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Web Servers
How the forum is delivered to users.
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Databases
How Forum Data are Stored.
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Operating Systems
Systems Supporting this Software.
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Compatible Browsers
List of Compatible Browsers.
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Required Plugins/Technologies
Additional or Basic Requirements from Client Side.
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Javascript. | |||||||
Localization
Languages supported by MesDiscussions.
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Yes.
No.
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We do not have many details about MesDiscussions.net technologies, but we know that it uses the famous LAMP solution (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).
Compatibility with Smartphones | |
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Compatible SmartPhones
Compatible Cellphone Brands and Manufacturers.
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No. |
Application Distribution / Type
How it is distributed / App Store Availability
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No. |
Forum Threads / Topics | |||
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Forum Style | Forum Organization | No. | |
Thread Icons | - | Topic Tags | - |
Hot Topics | - | Unread Topics | - |
Hidden Topics | - | Sticky Threads | - |
Related Threads | - | Detect Duplicate Threads | - |
Announcements | - |
Posting Messages / Answers | |||
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Message Editing Form
How to Post Messages.
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Post Editing Format
Supported Markup Language (HTML, Wiki, BBCode,...).
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Spell Checker
Checks typos on posts and topics.
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Image Attachment
How Images can be Attached and Displayed in Message Posts.
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Embedded Videos
Videos and Media Websites Supported in Message Posts.
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Posting Features | |||
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Quick Reply Box | - | Smileys | Yes |
Attachments | Yes | Syntax Highlighting | - |
Message Rating
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- | Message Quoting | - |
Additional Forum Features | |
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Poll Creation | Yes |
Private Messages
Users Can Communicate using an Internal Messaging System.
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Yes |
Instant Messaging
Discuss with Visitors and Members in a Chat Window.
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No |
Calendar
Topic, Member Birthdays, Events are available from the perspective of a calendar.
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No |
Online Users List
Connected User List (Often Found in the Forum Footer).
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Members List
Search and Consult the List of Members.
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Yes |
Technical Features | |
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Bundled Software
Additional Software Available with the Forum.
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No. |
RSS/Atom Syndication
Posts and Threads Exported to Feeds Aggregators
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No. |
Friendly URLs
URLs are clear and contain information about the topic (title, message,...).
Highly recommended for SEO purposes.
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Post by Email
Post Directly From your Email Box.
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Remote Control
Remote Control from External Software/Websites.
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Cache System
Cache pages to optimize bandwidth and load times.
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Template Engine
It is easier to theme a forum using a known template engine (more docs & examples,...).
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No. |
The header, footer,... can be configured depending of the current forum of the user, that able administrator to do what they want with their forum. Of course, you can add PHP code in these parts, to display dynamic information.
Statistics are provided in the Administration Panel, to display traffic, messages posted, by month, term and year...
Member Options & Features | |
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Bookmark Threads
User Profiles Keep a List of Followed Posts and Topics.
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Email Notifications
Receive Emails When New Messages are Posted in Followed Threads.
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Yes |
Export private messages
Private Messages can be Downloaded by Users.
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Payment Subscriptions
Paying Membership Subscription.
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User Profiles | |
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User Profile
User Information and Settings.
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Yes |
Avatars
Pictures of Members, Useful to Easily Identify their Posts.
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Yes |
Signature
Signatures Added at the Bottom of Each Message.
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Yes |
Ranks
Tags and Labels Identifying the Members, based on specific criteria (Total Posts Count, Credits, Moderation Level...)
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Yes |
Moderation & Threads Management | ||
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Moderation | No. | |
Moderator per section | No | |
Global Moderator | No | |
Move Threads
Move Threads from Topics
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Shadow Topics
When a thread is moved, the previous position is kept in order to inform users of this modification.
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Close/Lock Threads
Close/Lock Problematic Threads
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Yes |
Users Management | |
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User Groups
Organize and define groups of users, and apply different actions and settings on them.
Common Groups: Guests, Members, Moderators, Administrators,... |
Yes |
User Registration | No. |
Limit Features For New Users
Features are limited if a user has created a small number of posts.
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Guest Posting | Yes |
Multiple Administrators | Yes |
Send Warnings to Users
Inform users by email or PM that they infringe the board rules, and could be excluded for such behavior.
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No |
Forum/Section Restricted Access
ACL could be use to determine if a user or a group of users can access (in read only, post message) to some sections
and topics.
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No |
User Banishment | Yes |
Database Management | |
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Backup Database
Backup forum datas that you could store somewhere else.
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No |
Prune Database
Remove old and unused datas from your forum.
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No |
Restore Database
Restore a backup of your database if the previous install crashed.
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No |
Administration Tools | |||
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Statistics
Statistics about posts count, users, traffic...
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Yes |
Error/Notice Log Viewer
Forum Logs could be consulted.
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Tasks Scheduler
Maintenance tasks are regularly launched and could be scheduled.
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Mass Mailing
Send an email (newsletters, advertisements, information,...) to all users.
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Yes |
Installation & Upgrading | |
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Installation Method
How this forum software could be installed.
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Installation Wizard |
Upgrading Method
How this forum software could be upgraded.
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Upgrade Wizard |
Updates Notifications
The Admin Panel informs you when a new version is released.
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Forum Migration
Convert an existing forum to MesDiscussions.
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Security & Spam Protection | ||
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CAPTCHA
Captcha protects your forum against spam bots.
e.g.,
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No
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Abnormal Behavior Detection
Detect users or request strange behaviors, and try to process proactive actions.
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Words Filtering
Offensing Words are automatically replaced.
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User Blacklist
Prevent specific user accounts to register (based on email address, name,...) and disable potentially harmful members.
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IP Blocking
Prevent access to spam robots and other scripts that could attempt
DDOS or Brute Force attacks on your forum.
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Yes |
Customization | |||
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Plugins
Add new features to your forum installation.
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Yes.
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Themes
Modify the style of your forum easily.
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Custom BBCodes | No | Smiley Packs | Yes |
Custom Thread Icons |
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Additional User Profile Fields
Ask more about your members with custom fields.
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Integration with Applications, Social Networks, Intranet... | |
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Social Networks
Users can share information from their social network account...
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CMS / Blog Bridges
Integration with existing Web publishing tools.
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User Accounts Integration
Do users be able to log in with their corporate, Google, Facebook,... accounts?
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Content Aggregation
Forum allows to integrate news and content from other website,
using an aggregation protocol (RSS, RDF, Atom,...).
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No. |
The maximum score on Installation has been given because this part is done by the company working on MesDiscussions.net forum. So, this is something that you should not take care anymore.
About userbase integration, No One Development provides modules to their clients to plug MesDiscussions.net to their existing databases. This is for example the case for France Television company (FTVi).
Please note that their are some non-official plugins, like MD Enhance, even if MesDiscussions do not provide a specific architecture to integrate them.
Norms & Accessibility | |
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HTML / XHTML Markup
See W3C HTML Definition.
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XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
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Click to see if it respects HTML norms.
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CSS Stylesheets
See W3C CSS Definition.
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CSS 2. ![]()
Click to see if it respects CSS norms.
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Accessibility (WAI)
Web Accessibility ensures that the forum is usable by people of all abilities and disabilities.
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Conformance to AA level.
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UTF-8 Support
Default encoding used to support all locales and countries.
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Yes |
Conformance to W3C Norms
Does MesDiscussions correctly follow (X)HTML and CSS norms?
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Yes. |
In one word, MesDiscussions.net is a really powerful software. It allows companies and communities without any computer science knowledges having a forum software that will help them develop their business.
Hardware.fr and France 2 are example of big forums that use MesDiscussions.net, and are evidences to prove that this is a really good and adaptive software.
The customization is easy to do (no CSS and HTML knowledges needed), advertisement, footer and header can be replaced and changed in a little number of clicks, etc...
The only bad point is that currently, it seems that MesDiscussions.net has only convinced french company to use it, and we do not have example of international ones that use it.
This is the same company that provides support, hosting and develops the software, so you can be sure that any problems will be quickly fixed.
Comments (2)
Salut, Je pense que dans la
Salut,
Je pense que dans la description du forum, tu peux changer / mettre à jour différents trucs.
Current version : 2006.2 (July, 2006).
C'est la 2007.1 qui est installée actuellement.
Ensuite, d'une manière générale, dans les spécifications des forums, tu pourrais préciser si le forum noté accepte ou non l'insertion de fichier flash (vidéos, jeux, sons...).
Je termine, en précisant que même si le forum ne dispose pas de plug-in officiels, il en existe des officieux. Par exemple le célèbre "MD Enhance" qui propose de nombreuses améliorations pour les forums MesDiscussions.net. Anciennement connu sous le nom "HFR Enhance" est spécialement conçu pour le forum Hardware.fr (forum Hardware.fr ) il s'appelle maintenant et accepte tous les forums MD ( MD Enhance )
Voila, c'est tout ce que j'avais à écrire.
Labbai.
Hi Labbai, I didn't see your
Hi Labbai,
I didn't see your french post, but the modifications you requested are performed.
Thanks for your french comments
FSR Admin - Vote for 2012.