• Portal is completely optional. Enable one or two side columns, allowing users to turn either off.
• News posts from assigned forums can be displayed on main portal entrance.
• 8 Built-in portal boxes including: Search, Who's Online, Newest Members, Public and Private Calendar, AJAX Shoutbox, Top Posts, Forum Statistics. All which can be placed and ordered in either column.
• 10 fully customizable islands that support PHP or HTML including things like Google's Adsense. Option to display these islands in between posts.
• 10 Post islands that can display the most recent posts or topics from an admin-definable list of forums.
• Cached content to improve performance.

• Create an unlimited number of Categories and Forums.
• Create unlimited subforums to better organize your board.
• Group based permissions for read, write and reply access.
• Assign style settings including colors, images, headers and footers to specific forums.
• Enable/Disable file attachments on a per-forum basis.
• Enable/Disable polls on a per-forum basis.
• Forum Introductions can be assigned to each forum.
• Enable/Disable post moderation on a per-forum basis.
• Syndicate content of an individual forum easily with customized RSS settings.

Topics & Posts

• New topic/post tracking.
• Topic Watching - Subscribe to a topic with optional emails for any new posts in topic.
• Flat or Threaded views.
• Multi-Question polls.
• ActiveText, which is a set of words defined by an admin that will turn into links or images when used in a post.
• Manage Topic options - Announcement, Sticky, Move, Lock, Delete.
• Supports a wide variety of UBBcode with an easy to use post editor.
• Supports HTML if enabled by admin.
• Graemlins
• User Avatars
• AJAX Quick Reply and Quick Quote features.
• AJAX preview post option.
• Topic Ratings
• Attach multiple files to a single post if enabled in forum.
• Moderator Notification of questionable posts.
• Email post to a friend.

Calendar Features

• Private and Public Calendar Entries.
• Monthly/Yearly Recurring Events.
• Topics can be tied to a Calendar Day.
• Member Birthdays.

• Customizable user profiles allowing the user to give certain information about themselves including Birthday, Occupation, Instant Messenger, Interests, any admin defined fields and many more.

User Preferences

• Customizable user preferences allowing the user to choose how the forum is displayed to them, including skin, time zone, signature viewing, hiding from who's online and more.

Private topics

• Multiple users can participate in a single private topic. Maximum number of participants is defined by the admin.
• New Private Topic indicators.
• Tracking to see who has or has not read a post within a private topic.

User Avatars

• Admin-definable settings to allow users to upload an avatar, link to an off-site avatar or choose from a stock set of avatars defined in the control panel.
• Admin-defined max width and height of user avatars.

Watch Lists

• Users can watch forums, topics or individual users.
• Watched items appear in the "My Watch Lists" area so users can quickly check on any new content within their watched items.
• User can decide on an individual watch item basis if any new posts should be emailed to them.

• Options to log SQL errors and all Control Panel Activity
• Highly customizable censoring tool with wildcards, allowing for a default replacement word, or where certain words are replaced with something different.
• Markup Panel Options allowing the admin to define which font-families and sizes a member can use in their posts.
• ActiveText option where words can be tagged to be replaced with a link or image. (Note: This differs from the censor feature as it's done when the post is displayed. If the word is removed from the ActiveText list it will no longer be altered).
• File Attachment options, allowing the admin to specify what file types are allowed and what the maximum file attachment size is.
• Search settings, including maximum search results, time between searches and more.
• Options to turn on/off Member/Topic ratings, polls, flood checks, etc.

Display Options

• Options such as time zone settings, community introductions, Who's Online timeframe, and many more.
• HTML headers/footers, any onload javascript, meta tags can all be defined in this area.
• Interface for the admin to add/change or remove post icons, graemlins, user avatars, forum images or news images.
• Full Control Panel Style Editor.
  • Styles can be created where an individual style uses its own set of images
  • Easy to use preview area so any changes to the CSS settings can be viewed immediately.
  • Customizable table wrappers to allow for a style to have things like rounded corners, drop shadows around tables, and more.
  • Easy Import/Export system to share your styles or add new ones for your users to choose from.
• Language editor, allowing for all text to be changed easily from the control panel.
• Template editor. Smarty Templates can be edited through the control panel to quickly change any of the templates.

Forum & Category Management

• Add/Edit/Delete forums and categories.
• Easy subforum system to allow for better management and easier user navigation.
• Full control over all forum settings including post privileges, polls, attachments, RSS feeds and many more.
• Quick assignment of moderators and what privileges they have for each forum including edit, delete, sticky topics and more.
• Easy Group Management allows the admin to get an overview of what groups of users have what privileges, and quickly make changes to any or all forums.

Membership Area

• Member Moderation
• Email verification
• Specify Board Rules
• Registration Screen settings allow the admin to define required and optional fields.
• Minimum age settings.
• Member Titles based on number of posts a user has made.
• Powerful Member Management
  • Allows the admin to search for members using various criteria, including: last visit time, group, IP address, last post and more.
  • Option to send an email to all users or selected users using the search mentioned above.
  • Option to export all email addresses in a variety of formats.
  • Quickly change user groups for single or multiple users.
  • Ban/Unban a set of users.
  • And many more options

Portal

• Full control over all portal settings mentioned earlier.

Content Management

• Create RSS feeds from single or multiple forums.
• Approve posts from multiple forums on one page.
• Move or prune topics using a powerful topic management system, allowing the admin to specify search criteria for topics.

Tools

• Database Tools, including: database information, database backup and a SQL command box.
• Option to force clearing of the cache.
• Quickly check to make sure all permissions are set properly.

• Full admin control of what a moderator privileges, including: editing posts, making sticky posts, moving posts/topics, deleting posts/topics and more.
• Post Approval screen allows the moderator to get an overview of all unapproved posts from all forums they moderate, and handle them accordingly.
• Member Management screen. If the admin has allowed a moderator to Edit Members, this will allow them to help with member management.