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Elite Bulletin Board is an advanced Bulletin Board program that provides advanced features such as CAPTCHA, sub-board, skinning ability, multilingual and much more.
This project has been archived and the code lives here for historic-purposes only.
FreeDoor is a 32-bit BBS Door Development Kit for Windows and OS/2. All up-to-date information and future releases are available from http://www.elysoft.net/
YaBB SE is a PHP/MySQL port of the popular forum software YaBB. The team has rebranded itself under the name Simple Machines and continues to strive to release the best free forum software out there. See www.simplemachines.org
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ASPForums is an ASP.Net application that runs on an IIS web server allowing users to post newsgroup-like messages via a web page. Posts are saved to an XML file.
BirdBoard, a PHP/MySQL BBS that is designed to fly. It features all of a modern BBS script, but its code is designed to work faster than any other board currently available while keeping its simplicity and still be very flexible and customizable.
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Dynamic Flash Forum (DF2) will be the next revolutionary forum program for web designers to use on their site. The forum will run through Flash and has a PHP/mySQL backbone.
A lot of thought has gone into the IBB interface to make it easy to use. IBB uses a standard discussion board structure, so your visitors will feel familiar with the way IBB works.
This is an ASP.NET Forum still under development, started out as a learning trajectory and now hopefully becoming a big project. built in C#, all help is approved if it can teach me a trick or two. (All screenshots are as-is and may be subject to change)
NyaBB, Not yet another Bulletin Board, is a different BBS than the already existing BBS. It's using wiki-like links, and a possibility to add a topic from a different website with the same BBS system. Instead of a category, the topics can have five tags
Open Source bulletin board written entirely in object oriented PHP, including almost all up to date features. The project includes also several programming libraries, like template engine or database layer.
Q-Tip PCBoard Professional Bulletin Board System LAMP-Version.Inofficial version of the famous PCBoard(R) DOS BBS Software.Original PCB commands.Conferences, filebases, messagebases, multinode, multiuser, multilingual. And ... multiwindow multithreading.
Polemic Board is a web-based bulletin board system written in PHP which outputs valid W3C HTML 4.01 Strict markup. It supports MySQL and PHP Data Objects (PDO) for database management.
PSB (Public Square Board) aims to be a highly customizable, user-friendly, fast and reliable discussion board package. It is written in PHP, uses a MySQL database for data storage and is licensed under the GPL. Highly under development.