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License: Freeware
Operating System: All
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Developer: forumco.com
License: Freeware
Operating System: All
The Snitz Forums 2000 Community is an ever growing group of developers and friends that enjoy working together and learning from each other's experiences in programming.
Developer: http://forum.snitz.com/
License: Freeware
Operating System: windows
Discussion Forums 2k a Message Board made by Cool Dude 2k its Eazy to Set up You'll Need PHP and MySQL on Your Web Host.
Developer: df2k.berlios.de
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Operating System: OS Independent
Asp Web Wiz Forums is a multi-platform compatible script that is free ready to run discussion forum application featuring: WYSIWYG post editor, animated emoticons, avatar gallery, skins, e-mail notify, private messenger, on-line configuration, signatures, forum access groups, password protect forums, moderators, search facilities, members list, hot topics, powerful admin tools, language files, and lots more.
Developer: RF
License: Freeware
Operating System: All
Ambr Network Forums multi-platform compatible.
Developer: RF
License: Freeware
Operating System: Unix/Linux/Windows
Quicksilver Forums is a fast, feature rich bulletin board system written in PHP and MySQL.
Developer: SourceForge.net
License: Freeware
Operating System: All
Interactdev Forums is an open source JSP/Servlet message board project that seeks to be highly customizable, easily integrable with other systems, database-independent, independent in regards to language spoken, well-documented, and devoted to its users.
Developer: SourceForge.net
License: Freeware
Operating System: All
This script is designed to take forums posts from one or more forum categories and arrange them in a news format.
Developer: ep-dev.com
License: Artistic License, GNU General Public License (GPL)
Operating System: Windows, Linux, Mac OS, BSD, Solaris
Snitz Forums 2000 is one of the best ASP based bulletin board systems on the market.
Developer: SourceForge.net
License: Artistic License, GNU General Public License (GPL)
Operating System: Windows, Linux
The signatures are not restricted to forums only and they can appear on any node.
Developer: ftp.drupal.org
License: Artistic License, GNU General Public License (GPL)
Operating System: Windows, Linux, Mac OS, BSD, Solaris
Major features include articles, forums, newsletters, blogs, a file/image gallery, a Wiki, drawing, trackers, a directory, polls/surveys and quizzes, a FAQ, chat, a banner management system, Webmail, a calendar, maps, charts, Mobile Tiki (PDA and WAP access), RSS feeds, a category system, a theme.
Developer: tikiwiki
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Operating System: OS Independent (Written in an interpreted language)
Web Wiz Forums, the free award winning ASP bulletin board system software, can add value to almost any web site.
Developer: http://www.webwizguide.c...
License: Freeware
Operating System: windows
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Developer: CodeLifter.com
License: Freeware
Operating System: Unix/Linux/Windows
Free Simple Machines Forum Hosting.
Developer: SMF For Free
License: Freeware
Operating System: Linux
Offers Free Remotely Hosted phpBB Forums.
Developer: phpbb.com
License: Freeware
Operating System: Linux
Discussion forums for Ruby on Rails prgramming.
Developer: rubyonrailsforum.com
License: Freeware
Operating System: All
The HotJoe Java Forums provide help for new and experienced Java users in a large variety of topics.
Developer: forums.hotjoe.com
License: Freeware
Operating System: All
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Developer: forumco.com
License: Freeware
Operating System: All
ASP-DEv Forums are back, full XML output (HTML for non-compliant browsers), fully skinable using XSLT and CSS style sheets, avatars, group based permissions, private messages, attach files to posts, multilingual, moderated forums, each forum has its own permissions for Read/New Topic/Reply, encrypted password, Secure cookies (no username or password contained in cookies), who's online, sticky/locked topics, supports clustered web servers plus....
Developer: John Penfold
License: Freeware
Operating System: Windows