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

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