miniBB

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miniBB
miniBB Community Forums - using the default skin
Developed by	Paul Puzyrev and Sergei Larionov
Latest release	2.2a / April 22, 2008
OS	Any PHP and MySQL compatible OS
Genre	Internet forum
License	GNU General Public License
Website	www.minibb.com

miniBB stands for "mini bulletin board", a fast and lightweight PHP-powered flat-type free open source discussion board software. It is released under the GNU General Public License. Its primary goals are being user-friendly, fast and not overwhelmed by a large number rarely used features as compared to other discussion board software.

miniBB can be used on all operating systems that are able to support the PHP scripting language. Current release of miniBB supports MySQL database as the default data storage.

[edit] History

miniBB project was initially created by Paul Puzyrev and Sergei Larionov. Both programmers come from Latvia, Riga.

Both Sergei and Paul were willing to start their own project on PHP. Paul needed a simple customizable forum system, so he involved Sergei in the miniBB project, which turned into the mature bulletin board software with its own pecularities, making it different from many other free open source boards.

First released on February 19, 2002, miniBB is now running on dozens of thousands communities all over the world wide web. Some of the worlds biggest discussion boards with over a million of posts are using miniBB.

miniBB differed from its competitors by the reduced size, options, optimized programming code and oversimplified interface. This software displays the simplicity associated with minimalism, being like "art-of-programming", conceptual software. This software is proposed to be installed and used by those who like minimalism, simplicity of style, with achievement by using a few very simple elements to maximum effect. It could be downloaded and installed by anybody with the minimum technical knowledge as well.

On September 25th 2007, miniBB became a registered trademark in United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).