YaBB
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| YaBB | |
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| Developed by | YaBB Project Team |
| Latest release | YaBB 2.2.2 / June 5, 2008 |
| Preview release | YaBB 3 Alpha |
| OS | Cross-platform |
| Genre | Bulletin Board |
| License | Other |
| Website | yabbforum.com |
YaBB (Yet another Bulletin Board) is a freeware, visible source message board and instant messaging system written in Perl. YaBB utilizes a flat file system to store forum data, instead of a database management system, which has become increasingly common in forum software.[1] The YaBB team encourages modifications of the board, and helps support the Boardmod community, which sprung up in response.[2] YaBB was initially released on July 4, 2000.[3]
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[edit] Current Team [4]
Team members are listed in their primary team functions.
[edit] Administrators
- Zef Hemel - Founder
- Corey Chapman - Project Administrator & Webmaster
- Aleksi Konttinen (Alexik) - Project Administrator [5]
- Remy Monsen (Monsen) - Global Moderator[5]
- John Pahl (Captain John) - Global Moderator[5]
[edit] Development
[edit] Yabb 2 Sustaining
- Ron A.J. Hartendorp (Spikecity) - YaBB 2 Lead Developer, Dutch Moderator
- Boris Tjuvanov (MF-B) - YaBB 2 Developer
- Jeffrey Man (Jet Li) - YaBB 2 Developer
- Carsten Dalgaard (Carsten) - YaBB 2 Developer
- Andrew Aitken (LoonyPandora) - YaBB 2 Developer
[edit] Yabb 3 Development
- Torsten Mrotz (T-Master) - YaBB 3 Co-Lead Developer, BoardMod Administrator
- Matt Siegman (Matt) - YaBB 3 Co-Lead Developer
- Jeffrey Gelens (JeffG) - YaBB 3 Developer
- Alexander Boyadjiev (alex_james_b) - YaBB 3 Developer, Bulgarian Language Team Leader
[edit] Support
- Curtiss Grymala (Curdy G) - Support Team Member
- Kevin Smith (Kev) - Support Team Member
- Tom Bossa (O.H. Eng) - Support Team Member
[edit] Related Projects
- Michael Prager - Boardmod Leader
[edit] Security
With YaBB 2, one of the primary focuses for the development team was security. Many bulletin board systems suffer from similar attacks, such as cross-site scripting, and the team did not want YaBB to suffer from the same problems. Working with several groups of hackers, the team developed several new methods to prevent the most common attacks. Through this effort, the team has added flooding protections on many functions, a better banning system, proxy blocking, referrer blocking, dereferring on external links, harvester blocking, and several other types protections. A team member (Ron) decided to call this new system "The Guardian", as he did most of the work to create it.[6]
[edit] Features
Features of YaBB include posts, members, boards, categories, file attachments, private messaging, forum statistics, member banning, template configuration, email, unlimited smilies, member permissions (such as moderator, admin etc.), news fader, category permissions, board permissions, censored words and many, many more.
[edit] Releases
- Stable: YaBB 1 Gold - SP 1.4 (Y1.x series development & support has ceased).
- Stable: YaBB 2.2.1 (released March 5, 2008).
- Development: YaBB 3.x series (currently in alpha development, no official release date).
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- YaBBForum.com - The official home of YaBB.
- YaBB Support Forum - The official support forum for the YaBB community.
- YaBB Codex - The official YaBB online manual, "Docs, FAQs & Info".
- YaBB Directory Project - A community-based directory of YaBB forums.
- YaBB Server - A specialized server variant of YaBB.
- YaBB Toolbar - YaBB's official browser add-on & news service.
- BoardMod - YaBB's official modding & templating community.
[edit] References
- ^ YaBB Features. Retrieved on 2008-04-15.
- ^ The BoardMod Project. Retrieved on 2008-04-15.
- ^ YaBB's History. Retrieved on 2008-04-15.
- ^ YaBB Project Team. Retrieved on 2008-04-15.
- ^ a b c YaBB Members Listing. Retrieved on 2008-04-15.
- ^ The Sandman (2005-09-14). Interview with Corey Chapman, YaBB Project Leader. Retrieved on 2008-04-16.
