Beehive Forum

Beehive Forum is an open-source project for creating a high-configurable frame-based discussion forum.

Features:
- All the regular features of forums:
- Reply-to-user or reply-to-thread posting. 
- Subscribe to topics, or just mark High Interest
- E-mail notification of post replies to you.
- Complete PM (Private Message) system.
- File Attachments.
- Flexible searching system.
- Optional guest access.
- Optional stats to show active users, total posts, etc.
- Ignore folders and topics you don't wish to read.
- Multiple forum system, with a single userbase and per-forum options. 

- Accessibility support:
- Easy-to-use frame-based layout.
- Multiple style options, including dyslexia support. 
- I18N multiple language support, allowing a variety of languages to be used.

- Various features unique to Beehive:
- Powerful HTML posting, without security risks. 
- Advanced word-filtering facility. 
- Polls, including upto 20 options, anonymous voting or public ballots, and more. 
- Word Filter with Perl-compatible Regular Expression parsing.
- Lite Version, for use with PDAs and some mobile phones.
- Links section, for a forum-wide favourites list.

- Extendable user profiles:
- Allows any number of configurable fields.
- Users can opt-in to a 'Forthcoming Birthdays' list.

- Flexible relationships system:
- Ability to ignore users posts, or signatures.
- Ability to define 'friends', and easily see their threads.
- Complete Ignore feature, for blocking a user out entirely.

- Full, easy to use admin tools:
- List possible aliases for each user.
- Ban by user or IP address.
- Delete all posts by a user.
- Create sticky threads.
- Style-creator, to create new styles.
- Comprehensive user permissions.
- Folders can be made no-polls or polls only.
- Logs of all admin activities.
- Optional gzip encoding of output, to save bandwidth.

- And a lot of other little handy features.