What features are available?

Take the features tour or refer to the detailed features list shown below.

General

• Phone, chat, and email support
• You own your data
• Accessible on all smart phones and browsers
• iOS and Android apps
• Integrate with 5,000+ apps and services
• Translated into 28+ languages
• Add custom pages
• Import & export forum data
• Unlimited categories, topics, replies, storage, and bandwidth
• GDPR compliant
• Detailed statistics, graphs, and charts
• Progressive mobile web app
• Show your own ads
• Search engine optimized for high rankings
• Instant messaging
• Chat room
• Community files

Appearance

• Responsive and user-friendly themes
• Theme editor
• Use your own domain name
• No Website Toolbox branding
• Customize the favicon / site icon
• Add links to the navigation menu
• Customize the background image, header image, logo, and fonts
• Add custom CSS, HTML, and JavaScript

Security & Privacy

• Public or private forum
• HTTPS/SSL
• Private categories
• Assign administrators with specific permissions
• Assign moderators with specific permissions to help moderate the content in specific categories or calendars
• Assign users to groups to easily manage their permissions.
• Set user group permission for each individual calendar or category.
• Approve new sign ups
• Approve posts based on various filter criteria (user's first few posts, if the post contains a link, etc.)
• Automatic AI moderation
• Censor words
• Ban users
• Robust spam protection
• Report posts
• Invite-only forum
• Password protected forum or categories
• Email address verification
• Only allow users from specific countries to view the forum
• Block users from specific countries from viewing the forum
• Specify terms & rules
• Prevent users from staying logged in between sessions
• Logs of all moderator actions
• Human verification (CAPTCHA)
• Hide the forum from search engines
• Prevent new sign ups
• Remove message content from notification emails
• Specify permitted attachment types
• User country detection
• Two-factor authentication

Users

• Single sign on with your website or application
• Sign up through invitation
• Sign up using Facebook, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn, Microsoft, and GitHub
• Tag/mention users
• Email, web, and browser notifications of a new posts, messages, likes, and replies
• Automatically follow topics
• Email followed content immediately, daily, or weekly
• Reputation scores
• Member titles
• Email your members
• Give users more privileges based on their level of participation in the forum
• Custom profile fields
• Avatars
• Members list with useful sort methods like new, most reputed, and top posters
• Create, edit, delete, ban user accounts
• Photo albums
• Private messaging
• Welcome email
• Search users using specific criteria
• Custom profile fields
• Restore deleted users
• Signatures
• Offline mode
• Optionally allow users to have multiple accounts
• User to user emailing
• Hide the number of members your forum has

Topics & Posts

• Be brought back to where you stopped reading when you view a topic
• Embed the new, recently updated, or top discussion topics into your website
• Embed videos, insert photos, attach files, and even format posts with HTML
• Share posts on social networks
• Organize topics into headings, categories, subcategories, and tags
• Digest email for users who haven't visited in over a week
• HTML or embed code into post
• Pinning or unpinning a topic
• Anonymous/guest posting
• Move topics and posts
• Add photos and videos to post
• Like/dislike posts
• Useful sort methods like new, latest, and top topics
• Lock or unlock a topic
• Follow a topic or category
• Hide the number of views a topic has received
• Search users using specific criteria
• Merge topics
• Message editor when composing a new post or message (fonts, bold, underline, lists, etc.)
• Quote a post
• Lock topics or categories
• Pin topics
• Post editing time limit
• Reply to posts and private messages via email
• Create new topics via email
• Web push notifications
• Make a category accessible to only specific users
• Unlisted categories
• Emojis
• Announcements
• Polls
• BBCode
• Category moderators
• Link previews and media embedding
• Code boxes with syntax highlighting

Paid Access

• Charge a one-time or recurring subscription fee to access your entire forum, specific categories, view topic content, send messages, or download attachments
• Accept donations
• PayPal and Stripe support
• Offer a free trial
• Country-based pricing
• Set multiple pricing plans
• Discount codes

Calendar

• Create events
• Email notifications for new events
• Event reminders
• Approve events
• Set detailed user group permissions
• Calendar moderators

Website Integration

• Single sign on with your website
• Embed the forum into your website
• Developer API
• WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and Craft CMS plugins
• Match the forum layout with your website layout
• Webhooks
• Embed a specific forum page into a page on your website
• Pub/Sub

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