Forum

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A forum is a type of discussion board, a digital version of the university or local grocery store bulletin board. They're usually organized around topics, creating like-minded communities.
Answers.com's page for "internet forum"

Choices

 The forum content engines marked with a checkmark  are available via one-click install for our customers, thanks to Fantastico.

Forum software

Title	Software base of forum engines
BBPress	PHP, MySQL
Beast	Rails
Geeklog: via forum add-on	PHP, MySQL
phpBB2	PHP, MySQL
phpBB3: newest version/next generation of phpBB2	PHP, MySQL
Post-Nuke: integrates with phpBB2 thanks to a module	PHP, MySQL
SMF	PHP, MySQL
Vanilla	PHP, MySQL
WordPress and WordPress Mu: both integrate with BBPress	PHP, MySQL
vBulletin (the engine that fuels our forums)	PHP, MySQL
XOOPS: several choices thanks to module development	PHP, MySQL

• Comparison of Internet Forum Software

Related Terms and Issues

• Forum spam and how to deal with it
  • Online database of known forum spammers thanks to ignoranthuman.com
  • A list of open proxy IPs and bot IPs, thanks to gearhack.com
  • Specific forums' engines' techniques:
    • phpBB: the phpBB honeypot project

• Emoticons
• Avatars

Our Forums

• Our Forums
  • B&T's Tips and Scripts: A general Tips & Scripts resource page maintained by B&T, one of our Forum Moderators (highly recommended!)
  • Need an account for our forums?
  • Forgotten your password for our forums?

Our Current Service Notices subforum  Feed

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ma.gnolia.com/tags/forums	del.icio.us/popular/forums
flickr/tags/forums: most interesting; tag clusters for forums; Flickr groups related to forums	Google/forums; GoogleBlogs search for forums; Google CodeSearch for forums
O'Reilly/forums
reddedit/forums	digg/forums
furl/forums	items tagged forums at SWIK
jaiku/forums	twitter/forums

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Related wiki links: Content Creation Engines; Site5 Forums; Fantastico Installations]