PUBLIC MARKS from cadu with tags "open source" & forum

The Unclassified NewsBoard is an open-source, PHP-based internet bulletin board system, mostly like those you may already know. But the difference is in a lot of details that make your life with this board, both as administrator and user, much easier. You’ll be surprised how easy things can be and how fast you can work with such a system! The Unclassified NewsBoard has a lot of innovative features the world has never seen before in this way. I run this project in my spare time, mostly because over two years ago, none of the freely available forum systems fully convinced me and because I found fun in that job.

Vanilla is an open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual, fully extensible discussion forum for the web. Anyone who has web-space that meets the requirements can download and use Vanilla for free!

bbPress is forum software with a twist. bbPress is focused on web standards, ease of use, ease of integration, and speed.

k4 Bulletin Board is a full featured open-source (free) bulletin board solution. Having hundreds of features while still in beta, it compares to its expensive counterparts. Its standard features include: AJAX integration, advanced searching, unlimited categories and forums, unlimited topics and replies, multilingual support, fully templateable and a dedicated community. It runs on PHP4/PHP5 and currently works with MySQL, MySQLi and SQLite and is in testing with PostgreSQL.