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Find your forum easily with Forum-Software.org

The search engine for finding the best forum software you need, depending of your architecture is now online.

To find what are the existing solution on the market and on the Internet, simply click on the Find your forum link on the left, and specify your needs.

For the moment, you can select the following parameters :

  • Operating System
  • Database System
  • Web Server

If you would like to filter on other criteria, please request them on the comments of this article.

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News about reviews

To match some requests from Forum-Software.org users, we've just added six additional fields to describe forum features :

  • User List
  • Calendar
  • User Ranks
  • Avatars
  • User Signature
  • Custom BBCodes

To be more precise, some features like Smileys, User list or Message attachments will not be only described as present or missing, but could be added by a patch or by a simple plugin (extension). This will help webmasters to know how much work and search they will need to spend if they really want a feature that is not contained by default in their favorite forum software.

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JavaBB Review Available

A forum software based on J2EE/Hibernate for small business has just been tested by Forum-Software.org. Its name is JavaBB.

Please note that the server which hosts the demonstration is not really fast and can be down sometimes.

Direct links to JavaBB :

Have a good read !

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JForum Review Available

The first forum based on the J2EE technology is after all available and reviewed by Forum-Software.org. We directly begin with the most known forum : JForum.

Please however note that the server which hosts the demonstration is not really fast and can be down sometimes.

Direct links to JForum :

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PhpBB 3 beta1 Review

The most famous forum software is available as demonstration in Forum-Software.org. And of course, we took advantage of this installation to review the next major release of PhpBB 3.

A list of improvements and novelties is available in the review.

Please of course note this release is beta, and should not be installed in production environment.

Direct links :

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