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YabbYaBB (Yet another Bulletin Board) is a free open source message board and instant messaging system written in Perl. YaBB doesn't use a third-party database management system, but instead its own flat file storage system. Modifications (usually using Boardmod) can be used to add new features to the forum. Releases Features The following is a summary of some of YaBB 1 Gold - SP 1.4's features. Note that this is not a complete list. Every Page - Notification of instant messages, greeting, date/time
- Forum navigation links or text (index/category/board/message... etc.)
Forum Index - Stats including: newest member, total members, total posts, most recent post
- Graphical alert of new messages in each board
- Ability to mark every post in the forum "as read"
- Options not accessible to guests are "hidden" for them
Topic Index - Graphical alert each new or updated topic
- Ability to mark every post in the board "as read"
- Options not accessible to guests are "hidden" for them
Topic Display - Author information, such as email, # posts, membergroup, IM links and userpic
- Ability to quote messages or reply
- User/Moderator ability to delete or modify posts
- Option to display a "printer-friendly" copy of the page
- Option to send a friend the topic
Post Page - Easy to use editor-style interface
- Option to receive notification of replies
- Full preview ability
- Option to receive topic "notification"
Other Pages - Recent posts
- Forum post search
Other Features - Full administration and moderating options
- Ability to change settings and template on the fly
- Integrated instant messaging system for member to member communication
- Ability to customize the layout colors and CSS via one template
- Private Boards in which only certain membergroups can access
- Email all registered users
History In July of 2000, Zef Hemel needed a bulletin board script. And so he started searching; among the scripts he found were UBB (Ultimate Bulletin Board) at $199 and UB (UltraBoard) which was free. He chose to use the now discontinued UB. Zef then chose to write his own script, as he wanted more than UB provided. At first he decided to make a threaded board, but he thought that style was losing popularity; so he rewrote it into a non-threaded board, as it is now. He also wanted to make it a commercial script, but then decided this wouldn't be a solution for the poor webmaster community, including himself. He therefore chose to make it open source. Soon Zef found Andy Tomaka, an experienced UBB hacker, and Matt Mecham, the creator of iB (Ikonboard) and now the lead of the Invision Power Board. Zef added YaBB to the CGI-Resource Index and some other CGI script indexes. As the software matured, some high traffic sites started to use YaBB. This is when the developers discovered the first release was by far not ready to be used on high traffic sites. Together, with a new developer, Peter Crouch, the script was rewritten. Some others joined the crew, including Jeff Lewis, now a developer of Simple Machines Forum (formerly YaBB SE), who began as the *finance man*. It took a few weeks before the new version was released. A little after Jeff joined Zef's side, Christian Land joined the development team to improve YaBB's stability and features. Soon after, Corey Chapman volunteered his "modded" code as the base for YaBB 1 Final. After this release, he took on his own project, known as YaBB 1 Gold (with the help of the great NewsPro hacker, Darya Misse) to fix the buggy YaBB 1 Final. By this time, Zef had moved onto other projects. Jeff Lewis was named the new Project Leader of YaBB. He helped YaBB grow throughout the YaBB 1 Gold phases, which became an official release of YaBB. But Jeff too had decided to move onto bigger things and helped another developer, Joseph Fung, start a php-clone of YaBB named YaBB SE ("Splinter Edition"). Corey was named the next successor of the YaBB Project Leader position. Today it is sponsored by Xnull Internet Media, Inc. in both web design, web hosting, and development. Although you may see Zef online at the YaBB Community here from time to time, he has since left the YaBB project as a developer to work on another BBS system. See also External links
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