Quicksilver Forums

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Quicksilver Forums
Screenshot of a version 1.4.1 fresh install
Developed by	Geoff Dunn, Roger Libiez and The Quicksilver Forums Development Team
Latest release	1.4.1 / September 29, 2007
OS	Cross-platform
Genre	Forum software
License	GPL
Website	www.quicksilverforums.com

Quicksilver Forums, or QSF, is a bulletin board system written in PHP and MySQL. It uses Object-oriented programming and is optimized for speed. QSF checks all inputs though a common interface. The system also allows customisable templates. Advanced permissions system allows for fine grained group and user permissions. The software is released under the GNU General Public License and based on the popular MercuryBoard software.

1 History
2 See also
3 External links
4 Popular sites using Quicksilver Forums

[edit] History

Quicksilver Forums is derived from the MercuryBoard 1.1.5-CVS software. Around the beginning of September 2005, the mercuryboard.com website was unavailable. Combined with the previous lack of development activity from the MercuryBoard staff, it had been feared that the domain was forgotten and taken over by squatters and that the project was dead. The mercuryboard.org and .net domains were purchased to block squatters from getting ahold of those as well.

Roger Libiez had been privately working on some improvements that made the forum a bit easier to use and fixing a few small bugs here and there. Upon noting the domain being down, he decided to release what he had been updating to the public. This interim release was based on the last CVS branch from mercuryboard.com.

Other developers soon took interest and a fork began. It operated as MercuryBoard 1.1.5 while in development until the official name Quicksilver Forums was chosen. This name acknowledges the heritage of the software as a descendant of MercuryBoard.

After the mercuryboard.com website came back up, the MercuryBoard developers gave their blessing for the continued development of the Quicksilver Forums branch.