Welcome to Bulletin Board Excel Development Zone

Hello, and welcome to the BBXL development website! BBXL is Bulletin Board software written in Perl that can easily integrate with your website. BBXL has a fully customizable template system that is easy to use by users of any level. Need a way to bring your users together? Bulletin Board Excel is the answer for you!

Current Project Status

BBXL is currently in the pre-alpha stage. Coding has begun and it is rapidly being developed. If you wish to get the latest version of BBXL, you can obtain it by way of CVS here. If you are not interested in obtaining BBXL by way of CVS, please see the BBXL Download Page to download BBXL by way of HTTP.

Bug Reports and Support Requests

For a list of current bug reports, or to report a bug, please see the BBXL Bug Tracker. If you wish to submit a support request, please see the BBXL Support Tracker.

Plans for the future

What features does BBXL plan to offer later on in the future? Well, see below for a list of planned features for BBXL (Note: This may be changed from time to time).

Unlimited Categories / Boards
Unlimited amount of users (no limit for the amount of users that may join your forum)
Unlimited Topics / Post per forum
Specialized forum types: Announcement Forums, Locked Forums, and redirection forums.
GZip Page Compression support to save bandwidth (gzip and zlib supported)
Sub-Categories and Boards
Enhanced permission handling - keep users out of certain areas with advanced permissions and settings
Administration and Moderation Panel
Archiving and post management - Keep old posts on your forum stored and backed up
Full user control - Ban by username, ban by email address, and ban by IP Address.
Administrators / Moderators "notes" center - alert your administrators when something is going on
General Customization (Forum Name, etc.)
Advanced Search Engine
RSS Feed for forum news and most recent posts.
Users online - See who is browsing and when
Ability to recognize Search Engines in Users Online
Custom Access Logs and error logs
User Management - Remove old, inactive users, set user-specific permissions, etc.
Customize your themes and templates to make your forum look the way YOU want it.
Many other features involving website administration
Each user can set custom settings to make the forum more readable and enjoyable to them.
Built-in Buddy Lists for users
Built-in Ignore Lists for users (users can prevent seeing posts, and receiving Private Messages from certain users
Private Messaging center for each individual user
Time zone configuration and location configuration
Accessibility options
Daily Forum Statistics
Collapse (hide) specific categories
Customizable date formats
Custom Profile fields
Thread Rating
UBBC support
Polls
Flood Protection - Prevent users from hitting your forum hard with junk.
Optional "Minimum Length Requirement" for posts.
Word Censors
Sticky / Pinned threads
Global threads
Lock, move, merge, and split options
"Thread Hiding" - Prevent certain threads from showing without deleting them
Flexible Theme System
Customize your themes to make them fit your website
Multiple Theme Support
Multiple Language Support
Default themes are 100% Valid CSS and Valid XHTML Compliant
Option to "disable" themes so that users cannot select certain themes for use.
Option to prevent users from selecting custom themes - forcing a default style
Completely customizable CSS Style Sheets
Themes are designed to be light on resources and bandwidth
SSI Support for website integration
Customizable Portal for your page

Thank you for your interest in BBXL! If you are interested in this project, or if you wish to become a developer, please contact me at jeffwilson12@users.sourceforge.net.

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BBXL, and all of its components are released under the GPL (General Public License).
This site is Copyright © 2004 - 2005 the BBXL Development Group.
This page was last updated Tuesday, 23-Nov-2004 23:50:18 UTC