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Major Updates in Reviews and Live Demonstrations

You may have note that the last two weeks, there were really few news from Forum Software Reviews. This time was totally used to rewrite many parts of the website, and more particularly the Reviews, that have been totally rethought.

The Reviews now contain more information and description about features and advantages that each Forum Software provides. Each review now contains the following categories, that will help webmasters to choose their favorite tools:

  • Forum Software Description
  • Server & Clients Requirements
  • Forum Threads and Posts
  • Key Features & Additional Tools
  • User Profiles & Options
  • Security & Spam Protection
  • Customization
  • Administration & Support
  • Secunia Vulnerabilities Reports
  • W3C Norms and Accessibility
  • Conclusion & Rating

As you could note, these categories are now more detailed, and some documentation is also available for important features (easily recognized with a star).

The Live Demonstration Page is now more clear and displays all available demonstrations. All Forum Reviews will help you consult rating and compare each softwares on the same page.

The style is also more clear and readable and the font size has been reduced, to increase reading comfort.

There is of course some works left, for example, the Forum Comparator still needs to take care of new features categories.

We hope those improvements will satisfy your needs.

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An interesting article about Injection Vulnerabilities

The PhpBB Developer Blog released one week ago a really interesting post about various injection vulnerabilities : SQL injection, HTML injection, Include injection...

This post is particularly useful if you want to discover how those vulnerabilities works and how you could avoid them for your personal developments, particularly in PHP. The provided examples are really clear about what to avoid and why it is really important to regularly upgrade your forum software installation and to choose a really well supported forum.

Other Resources :

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UltraBB Review and Live Demonstration Available

UltraBB Review and Live Demonstration are now available on Forum Software Reviews.

You can consult it here :

The UltraBB forum software has landed to Forum Software Reviews. This is time for review it.

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Improvements of the Forum Software Reviews site

The Forum Software Reviews layout has been a little bit rethought. You will now find all Forum Reviews on the left and green menu, while the classic menus are now on the right.

I hope regular user will not be too much lost, and will access to really important information faster.

The Forum Trends and Random comparison have been moved to the front page, and their sizes have been increased, to improve readability.

Do not hesitate to contact me if you encounter any problems. The forum and this news comments are a perfect place for this.

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Lefora Review and Live Demonstration Available

Lefora Review and Live Demonstration are now available on Forum Software Reviews.

You can consult it here :

It's time for the Lefora Hosted Forum Solution to be reviewed. This is the first hosted solution reviewed in Forum Software Reviews, so this will be a chance to describe advantages and inconvenience of those kind of solutions.

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