Many member features can be set per forum or for all forums.
Forums System Features
Multiple forum system, with a single userbase, and per-forum options.
Reply-to-user or reply-to-thread posting.
Mark topics as Normal, High Interest, Ignore, or Subscribe.
Ignore all signatures, entire folders and/or topics.
E-mail notification of post replies and Private Messages to you.
Member-to-member email via message board or profile.
Complete PM (Private Message) system with export utility, and automatic pruning feature to clean out old messages.
Member privacy controls: browse forum anonymously, disallow PMs, email notice of messages, member-to-member email from boards or profile, allow only friends to see you.
1MB personal attachment space to upload images for use in your profiles, signatures, message board posts, or if you want to save your attachment space for other things, link to images stored elsewhere.
4MB personal webspace for your own webpages, images, etc. with ftp access. Your addresses; http://www.members.hanginoutforums.com/USERNAME/ and http://www.hanginoutforums.com/members/USERNAME/.
Comprehensive QnA created specifically for this system and website.
Flexible searching system, accessibility support, and easy-to-use frame-based layout.
Multiple style options, including dyslexia support.
Choose from multple smiley packages.
Members can choose from a forum theme drop down in My Controls; allowing them to choose how they see the forum, without effecting how others see it.
118N multiple language support, allowing a variety of languages to be used.
HTML posting, available WYSIWYG editor, post preview, use of personal signatures, emoticons, and without security risks.
Advanced word-filtering: both forum based and individual member; with Perl-compatible Regular Expression parsing, enable Wiki integration.
Polls, including up to 20 options, anonymous voting, public ballots, and more.
Lite Version, for use with PDAs and some mobile phones.
Forum links drop down, and separate (from the message boards) links section, which allows forum members to share links with one another, while enabling forums owners and staff to better organize links.
Ability to enable forum stats display; active users, total posts, etc at bottom of message board.
My Forums page with personal view settings; Favorites, Recently Visited, and Available Forums.
Peronal avatars; 15px wide by 15px high image support (jpg, jpeg, gif, png).
User profiles with a 100px wide by 150px high image support (jpg, gif, jpeg, png), homepage link, number of posts by user, longest session and total time in forum.
Control who sees profile information with friends and privacy options.
Message board signatures; signature editing with WYSIWYG editor.
Members can opt-in to a 'Forthcoming Birthdays' list.
Flexible relationships system: Ignore user, users posts, or signatures completely, define friends and easily find their messages, or enemies and ignore their messages.
Forum Owner: Full, easy to use forum admin tools
Forum Owner: List possible aliases for each user.
Forum Owner: Ban With IP, Nickname, Username, Email, or HTTP Referrer.
Forum Owner: Delete all posts by a user in thread or throughout forum.
Forum Owner: Create sticky threads, split and merge threads, close threads, lock folders and titles.
Forum Owner: Set a time limit for a post to be edited without the 'Edited by' text showing up at the bottom.
Forum Owner: Move deleted threads to out of sight, or delete them permanently - no 'deleted by' messages to clutter up your boards.
Forum Owner: Individual forum member profiles: allows a forum owner to create a unique profile set up for their forum, with any number of configurable fields.
Forum Owner: Ability to create multiple forum folders, and edit, delete, and set individual permissions for each folder; including normal threads, no-polls, polls only, or both.
Forum Owner: Style-creator, allowing you to create basic color styles for your forum.
Forum Owner: ftp access to 1MB of webspace for your forum's webpages and to your forum's folder, including its styles folder, allowing you to create and upload your own forum themes.
Forum Owner: Readily available copies of all the files you need to create your own forum themes at The Graphics Box, including a style.css template designed specifically for this forum system.
Forum Owner: Forum links drop down: allows forum owners to link their forum to other forums, webpages, websites. etc.
Forum Owner: Customize the start page with an WYSIWYG editor, and preview it, or choose to upload one.
Forum Owner: Comprehensive user permissions, and group creation for easier setting of multiple users' user permissions.
Forum Owner: Logs of all forum admin activities.
Forum Owner: Allow or deny guest access to forum.
Forum Owner: Show or don't show guests on forum visitor log.
Forum Owner: Make forum public or private, private forums can be either restricted, or password protected.
Forum Owner: Set up Forum Rules page, rules which a person must agree to before being able to register with your forum.
Forum Owner: Restricted and password protected owners can set up a message page telling nonmembers about their forum, including how to get in touch with forum staff to apply for forum membership.
Forum Owner: Set up a Forum Closed page to inform visitors of the forum's closed status and any other information they want them to know..
Forum Owner: Allow stats - displays active users, total posts, etc at bottom of message board.
Forum Owner: Ability to set up RSS Feeds, and Wiki integration.
