Invision Power Board, an award-winning scaleable bulletin board system, allows you to effortlessly build, manage and promote your online community. Advanced yet intuitive features like multi-moderation allow you to focus on developing your community, rather than wrestling with complex settings.
Allow your users or customers to comment on your products or services; personalize your customer service by allowing staff to interact with your customers; enable staff to collaborate and discuss, in private, away from public eyes, or just relax with friends in your corner of the web. Invision Power Board is designed to meet your specific requirements from your community, whatever they might be.
Who would benefit from using IPB?
Individuals
Develop a community around your fan-site or personal website
Small/Medium Businesses
Get global exposure and feedback on your products & services
Corporations
Personalize your service to customers by communicating online
Corporate Intranet
Improve your internal communication by allowing staff to interact and discuss
Features - usability without the bloat
Invision Power Board is packed with useful features that enable you to quickly and painlessly configure and manage every aspect of your board. Nowhere else will you find innovative features such as multi-quote, topic multi-moderation and inline moderation - features that push the boundary of usability and ease of management in forum software.
See the list below for an overview of the most important features IPB offers!
Feature overview
Installation
- Integrated installer
- Supported RDBMS'
Users & Groups
- Permissions masks
- Multi-user groups
- Group promotion
- Custom profile fields
Forum Control
- Unlimited sub-forums
- Independent forum skins
- Redirect forums
- Trash-can forum
- Password-protected forums
Moderation
- Topic multi-moderation
- Inline moderation
- Global and forum moderators
- Moderation queue
Statistics & Auditing
- Detailed admin & moderator logs
- E-mail logs
- Error logs
- Detailed registration, topic, post & PM statistics
Searching
- Fast-text searching
- Easy and advanced search options
Sharing & Application Integration
- XML archiving
- Skin & language export & import
- Export topics to Word/HTML
- Export personal messages
- RSS topic feed
- Lo-fi version for printing/alternative devices
User Discipline
- Moderation queue
- Warning system
- Suspension
- Ban controls
- Ignore user
Site Integration
- IPB Portal
- Data export API
- Event handler for external code
- Converge
Skinning & Languages
- Integrated skin editor
- Easy CSS editor
- Integrated language editor
Maintenance & Management
- Integrated SQL Manage
- Attachment management
- Task Manage
- Comprehensive rebuild Utilities
Promotion
- Bulk mailer
- Search engine spider controls
Posting
- Multiple attachments
- Custom BBCodes
- Multi-quote
- BBCodes
- Emoticons
- Bad-word filters
Viewing Topics & Posts
- Outline, Standard & Linear+ topic views
- User-selectable pagination
- Topic & post subscriptions
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