QuickSilver Official website: www.quicksilverforums.com Key Features - Fast and light
- Rich in features
- 3D permissions system
- Powerful admin controls
- Complete skinning
- Translated into 18 languages
- Optimised MySQL interaction
- Easy to customise
- Released under the GPL license
- Free for commercial or personal use
Download: http://www.quicksilverforums.com/downloads.html Frontend Demo: http://www.opensourcecms.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2180 Admin Demo: http://demo.opensourcecms.com/quicksilver/index.php?a=login&s=on Admin Username: admin Admin Password: demo123 features Registration - Option to require validation via email before making a registration complete
- Option for anti-robot registration to stop spammers registering through automated scripts
- Force users to agree to a Terms of Service contract before allowing registration
User options - Users can list their details for instant messengers including MSN, ICQ, Yahoo, AIM and Gtalk
- Users can hide their email address but still be contacted via email through an interface on the board.
- Can access the board in 18 different languages
- Can set a custom avatar including options to use a Macromedia Flash file as an avatar.
- Can subscribe to get emails for updates to forums or topics
- Private Messaging for contacting any member on the board
- Recover lost passwords by generating a new one and validating via email
Forum features - Full post formatting using BB code
- Polls and Votes available as a topic option
- Listing all new and updated topics since last visit
- Adding attachments to posts
- Image attachments can be viewed as part of the post
- Easy to use javascript tools to aid formatting posts
- Full post and title searching
- All links use rel=“no follow” to discourage spammers
Permission/Security features - Control access on a group, forum and user level
- Control who can start new topics, new polls, reply to topics, edit posts, delete posts and more
- Control who can view what areas of the site
- Give moderators abilities to edit or delete posts by other members
- Ban members from accessing the site
- Ban IP addresses from accessing the site
- Censor inappropriate words
- Move topics across to other forums
- Split topics into multiple new topics
- Lock topics from further replies
- Pin topics so they remain listed before recent topics
General features - See who is currently viewing the board and what they are doing
- Statistics on posts, topics and activity on the site
- Show members who are having a birthday
- RSS feed of recent posts
- Improved detection of preferred language
Administration features - Full editing of skins and ability to install new skins
- Full backup and restore system available
- Award special titles to members with higher post counts
- Create/edit help articles for your site
- Create forums and categories in a hierarchy of unlimited depth
- Install custom emoticons and post icons
- Mass email members
Programming features - Modules can be added or removed by using the optional modules setting
- Small “modlet” classes can add extra functionality within any page with a simple change to a template
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