Release Digest: General, June 12, 2002

[ Thanks to ilia
alshanetsky for this link. ]

FUDforum 2.0.1

FUDforum is a web forum released under the GPL license, written
in PHP4 utilizing a MySQL database backend. This release represents
the next generation of FUDforum, and includes numerous new
features, improvments and speed optimizations.

The forum is completely customizable via a templating system,
which is compiled for optimal performance. The templating system
also has integrated i18n support, which allows the forum to be used
in other languages, at this time there are 5 different languages
to, which translations are available in the standard distribution
and more will be available soon. The spell checker integrated into
the forum, which utilizes pspell library also has multi-lingual
support, thus permitting even the non English speakers to spell
check their messages. FUDforum 2.0 also includes a powerful user
group management system, that allows fine grained control over the
users of the forum, for the administrator as well as the group
manager(s) assigned by the administrator. In addition to these
features, the forum contains all of the other features you may have
come to expect from a web forum, such as the ability to attach
files to messages, include polls, private messaging system,
FUDcode, which allows the user to style their text without the need
for HTML, thread & forum subscriptions with both e-mail &
ICQ notification, buddy and ignore lists, a full text search and
many more.

Despite all these features, FUDforum is extremely fast and
scales extremely well, by using MySQL indexes and table views
implemented in to retrieve the data in the most expedient manner
possible. The result, is that most forum pages take ~0.01-0.02
seconds to generate on most computers, even while the forum is
under a heavy load. FUDforum 2.0, by default is setup with very
secure file permissions, that are designed in such a way that given
a reasonably well setup server, your forum’s data will be safe
against prying eyes, even on virtual host servers.

A more detailed description of the forum’s features &
capabilities can be found by looking at the FUDforum’s manual,
which is avaliable download at http://fud.prohost.org/doc in
HTML and PDF formats.

You can be freely downloaded from here and if you have any
questions, there is a support forum at http://fud.prohost.org/forum/,
where you can get answers to your questions and concerns about the
forum.