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Full list of features:

• Unlimited Forums & Categories
• Unlimited forums can be organised into as many categories as you like
• Powerful search options
• Private forums and those only for specified user groups

Posting Messages

• Message formatting with various font styles and sizes, as well as
• allowing quoting, image posting,code display and fully automatic URL linking.
• Support of BBCode tags and controlled HTML tags
• Embed youtube & google video player in the post by simply adding the link
• Polls can be simply added to forum posts
• Email notification of replies to forum topics
• Powerful topic subscription capability
• Many emoticons to portray emotions
  

Versatile User Groups & Forum Permissions

• Powerful forum, user and group permission management
• Control forum access to specified user groups
• Control all aspects of the posting experience
• Allow limited access to viewing, posting, replying and many other options

Member Features

• Unlimited members
• Personal profile creation which includes profile images
• Post-counting and administrator definable ranks for users
• Email-like private messaging-system

Moderation Features

• Topic editing
• Mass delete/move/lock/unlock of posts
• Topic splitting
• Option of auto-pruning of old or unanswered messages on a per forum basis

Easy to Use Administration Centre

• General configuration
• Forum & category setup
• Disallowed usernames
• User authorisation
• Word censoring
• Complete member management
• Emoticon setup
• Optional new post verification
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• single/multiple IP address or hostname
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• Mass emailing of groups and users by the administrator

Style and Customization

• Over 250 forum design templates available for the user to choose from
• Ability to upload a custom logo from your computer or by linking.