Crossday Discuz! Board

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Crossday Discuz! Board
A default (english) installation of Discuz! 5.0.0.
Developed by	Comsenz Technology Ltd.
Latest release	6.1.0
Platform	PHP / MySQL
Genre	Forum software
License	Proprietary^[1]
Website	http://www.discuz.com/

Crossday Discuz! Board (or simply Discuz!) is an Internet forum developed by Comsenz Technology Ltd. It is built on the PHP scripting language, supporting MySQL and PostgreSQL database management systems. Discuz! is free for personal use. A commercial license costs 3000RMB. The newest version of Discuz! Board is Discuz! 6.1. It is now widely used in China and Hong Kong, but has not been very popular in other countries/places due to lack of support for other languages. The long developed English version of 5.5.0 was never released to the public.

It was modified from the well-famous discussion board XMB (forum).

1 Features
2 Internationalization and localization
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Features

Discuz! is comparable to other forum software, matching with English leaders such as vBulletin or Invision Power Board. Version 5.0.0 features a WYSIWYG editor, inline moderation, a detailed statistics center, Personal Messaging system, a plugins/modules system, custom BBCode, custom Profile Fields, etc.

Discuz! also includes many unique features out of the box, such as a "User Awards" system which allows Administrators to present awards to users (displayed on posts and in profiles as "Medals") in admin-specified categories; a "Forum League" option which functions as a sort of affiliates system, allowing Administrators to place links (along with an image and description) at the bottom of the forum, above the statistics area; a built-in ad manager which gives you the ability to display image or text ads in a multitude of ways, from floating to a header or footer include; a "Thread Types" system that allows administrators to define different types of threads for specific forums, and has the user select a type when posting a new thread which will then be displayed in the thread list; the ability to check an "Anonymous" box when posting, which hides the posters identity (administrators can view the poster). Discuz! also has some unique moderator functions, such as the ability to copy threads and bump threads, as well as a "highlighter", which allows moderators/administrators to draw attention to more important topics by colorizing and formatting (Bold, Italics, Underline) the thread title.

[edit] Internationalization and localization

Despite limited official support for multi-language versions of Discuz!, the software itself has a thorough system for Internationalization and localization. For example its template system integrates language files, and each board can have its own language in addition to template.