Features

Classic forum functionality

• Categories, forums, topics, oh my!
• Optional Q&A-style threading
• Direct message, real-time chat between users
• Upload photos or embed external images
• Automatically embed YouTube videos
• Selectively quote previous posts
• Real-time notifications in-app
• Rich text editing
• Avatars and signatures, mutable by users (“hide vanity”)
• Recent topics across all forums
• User profiles with links to social networks
• Save your favorite topics, subscribe automatically to new post notifications
• Mark individual or all forums read
• Jump to the newest post
• Real-time updating with new posts
• Continuous scroll topics
• Vote up and recognize posts
• Automatic adjustments to display local times
• Private forums
• Restrict posts to certain roles by forum
• Edit posts
• Localized for English, Spanish, German, Dutch, Ukranian and Taiwanese Mandarin
• Fast page rendering, average 20ms on Azure App Service P0v3 and SQL elastic pool at 50 eDTUs and 900k posts.

Administration

• Your own terms of service
• Adjust number of topics and posts per page
• Restrict size of uploaded images and YouTube video size
• Automatically close topics after days of inactivity
• External (social) logins
• External identity (All-OAuth mode) that relies on your OAuth/OIDC provider, ideal for enterprise.
• View detailed security logs
• Limit posts by time interval in seconds
• View all recent user sign-ups
• Error logging and viewing
• Monitor last run of background services
• Edit users
• Email all users
• Set topic/post page size

Moderation

• All-private, sign-up required option
• E-mail confirmed sign-ups
• CAPTCHA check
• Parse out naughty words
• Assign users to custom roles, limit viewing and posting to those roles by forum
• Approve profile photos
• Ban e-mail and IP addresses
• Edit and soft delete posts, with history
• Close, pin, move, soft or hard delete topics
• View moderation logs