Forum Handling

• Unlimited forums/subforums
• Forums with unread content appear highlighted
• Password-protected forums
• Redirect forums that link to external URLs
• Fine-grained forum permissions, including viewing, posting, replying, uploading and downloading
• Drag and drop forum ordering in AdminCP
• One-click 'mark forum as read'

Posts & Posting

• Rich post formatting with our fully-featured text editor
• Automatic embedding of videos from various video services
• MultiQuote for one-click quoting of posts, even from different forums
• Shared Media pane, allowing easy reuse of previously-posted content, like photos
• Our iconic emoticons, with the ability to easily import other emoticon packs
• Advanced attachment uploader allows multiple files to be attached at once, with progress indicator
• Tag topics, with option for open (user-defined tags) or closed (admin-defined tags) system
• Tag cloud can be configured to show on the Board index
• Topic prefixes (shows a specified tag as part of the topic title, e.g. "For sale")
• Bad Word filter to help prevent obscenities, with per-group on/off
• HTML posting support, with per-group on/off
• URL filtering for posted links, on a whitelist or blacklist basis
• Draft posts saved automatically in the editor
• New posts made while replying appear automatically on the page

Content Consumption & Sharing

• Full content search, with quick search available on every screen
• View New Content area, showing visitors topics & posts they haven't seen before
• 'Follow' forums and topics, and get notified when they're updated
• Import RSS feeds as new topics in specified forums
• Syndicate topics via RSS feeds, with customization options
• Share content to social networks like Facebook & Twitter in one click
• Extensive notification events & methods, including inline popup, email & mobile push.
• Recent topics shown on Board index

Customization & Languages

• Support for a different skin per forum
• Visual Skin Editor for point-and-click color customization
• Advanced skin editor for manual customization of templates & CSS
• WebDAV skinning allows local editing of templates & CSS
• Support for multiple skins, each with individual access permissions
• Fully translatable interface & AdminCP
• Language packs can be easily imported and exported
• Extensive hook system allowing functionality to be extended

Technologies

• Support for IPv6
• Sphinx searching supported when available
• Caching support: Eaccelerator, Memcache, Xcache, Wincache & APC
• CDN support for static resources
• Minify built in
• Option to serve Javascript libraries from Google

Topic Handling

• Pinned topics
• Poll topics, with private or public voting
• Inline topic preview, showing first and latest post snippets
• Various topic sorting options, including Recently Updated, alphabetical etc. at a forum level, and as a user preference
• Topic ratings

Moderation Tools

• Support for super moderators (with site-wide powers), individual forum moderators and group-based moderators
• New topics/posts can be queued, pending moderator approval (per-group and per-user basis)
• Ability to prune topics from forums that match certain criteria, such as age
• Multi-Moderation, allowing multiple moderation actions to be chained for one click access
• Deleted content can be reviewed and restored in the ModeratorCP
• Search by IP address to find all posts/members that match
• Report Center, allowing users to report topics/posts, and moderators to review them
• Members' display name history logged
• Moderating Team page shows super moderators and individual forum moderators
• Flag As Spammer tool, enabling instant ban of a member and deletion of all their content
• Topics can be managed: merged, renamed, moved, edited, deleted, split, unapproved and pinned
• Posts can be managed: edited, moved, merged, deleted and unapproved

Members

• Anonymous sign in (hides the member's name and online status on the Active User list)
• Custom profile fields (variety of types; can be required at registration; with access permissions)
• Single sign-on support built in for Twitter, Facebook, OpenID, Live & OpenID. Other providers can be supported via a custom plugin
• Status updates can be shown on the Board index
• Profile customization via background images
• Integrated photo cropper for perfect profile photos
• User ratings
• Reputation points shown on profile, with admin-defined badges at certain thresholds
• Automatic member group promotion after defined post increments
• Auto-profile photo syncing with Gravatar, Twitter and Facebook support
• COPPA support, requiring parental permission for under-13s

Promote, Optimize & Monetize

• Simple ad placement system, with user group permissions
• Friendly URL structure for humans and search engines
• Semantic HTML markup
• Support for microformats, including hCalendar, hCard, hAtom and Breadcrumbs
• Auto-generated meta tags, including description, canonical and noindex
• Search engine spiders are recognized and displayed in the Active Users list
• Bulk mailer tool for communicating with membership via email
• nofollow added to posted links
• Search engine spider activity is logged and compiled for viewing