E-Blah Features

The following summary of features E-Blah has was taken from the Platinum 9 release. This list is in no way an accurate depiction of the hundreds of features E-Blah has.

E-Blah has the easiest installation process out there, along with the best support team in the world. We strive to make it where anyone can have a forum installed and running within thirty minutes.

Themes System

• Menu system (home, login, logout, member center, etc.)
• Area that welcome users, date and time, instant messages
• Easily switch between themes in the Member Center or make default themes for the entire board

Member Groups

• Members may be a part of many different groups
• Groups can either be opened or closed (members can freely join)
• Group managers may add or remove users without consent of a forum administrator
• Groups have permissions that can be set by the forum administrator
• Specific boards and categories can use groups as "permissions" which allow users to enter, post, or moderate

Board Index

• Indication of new messages on boards
• Last thread to be modified listed with link
• Moderators (if any) listed, number of users browsing board, and locked board notification (image and text)
• Mark all threads as read
• Forum time offset
• Scrolling news option
• Current forum statistics (boards, members, click log, planned events, invite friends to forum, members online, etc.)

Message Index

• Board description
• Sticky threads
• Moderator options (stick, lock, delete, and move threads)
• Link to "View All New Posts" (only show new posts on board)
• "Switch to" link to go to another board
• Forum rules
• Mark all threads as read
• Explanation of message status (locked, stuck, etc)
• Rating threads
• Last post time with who posted last and who started the topic
• Members browsing the forum
• Board notification

Message Display

• Number of reply, with total number of replies on each post
• Send topic to friend
• Topic reporting
• Posts per day with post counts
• Signature (individual users can disable the signature)
• Avatar (individual users can disable the signature)
• Links to ICQ, AIM, YIM, MSN, Private Message, and e-mail to the user
• Quote, delete, modify on each post
• IP Address of user
• Online status
• Topic notification
• "Switch to" link to go to another board
• Quick Reply feature (no more going to the reply page each time)
• Thread Rating
• Moderator Options
• Forum rules
• Users can 'block' messages by certain members from appearing
• Printer Friendly version of the topic, along with allowing them to download the thread to their Hard Drive in HTML format

Post / Reply page

• Checkable "Topic Notification"
• Users can disable smiles
• Users can disable HTML (if enabled on forum)
• Attachments
• Add smiles (and custom smiles as well)
• Blah code links
• Color coated color Blah Code links
• Preview (message preview above post)
• Users browsing the board user is posting on
• Topic summary of threads

Member Center

• Private Messaging
• Public profile (with editable side panel for members and administrators)
• Banning of users from profile page
• Members can change all of their public profile from the center
• User Message Block (allows users to block messages from users they do not like)
• Buddy and Private Message block list
• Private Message search
• Private Message Auto-Reply and 'E-mail on new PM'
• Users can change Board settings - Disable censor, auto-notification, disable thread summaries, disable avatar and signature in post, etc.
• Time settings - users can change time zone, and the way the date and time looks
• Language and Theme - users can change the forum language, and the theme the forum uses
• Notification Service - allows users to manage currently threads marked to notify (or e-mail on new post or reply)
• Administrator settings - edit post counts, date registered, disable private messaging per user, member group, access status (disable user account, etc.) and a special 'forum' key you can setup on your forum

Administrator

• Logging - Click Log, Error Log, Login/Out Log, Ban log, and Attachment log and management
• Forum Settings - Theme manager, Modifications center, forum settings (over 100 basic forum settings), template manager (News, Main, registration, etc.)
• Forum Update - Version check
• Add and Edit Boards and Categories (easiest to use out of all other forums)
• Extra Smiley Code
• IP Search - Search for usernames per IP address
• Various: Portal setup, censor, mailing list, recount member posts, reserve usernames, forum backup, etc.
• Forum Conversion - YaBB or phpBB

Full Featured Calendar

• Add and delete events based on member group status (Admins, and others you assign)
• Span events over days
• View each months week breakdown
• Birthdays and events are listed
• Previous and Next month shown in "current month" display

Various

• Easy to use Search Engine with Highlight tool
• Easy splitting and merging of topics
• Moved threads create new moved message
• Member List
• Easy to modify members (for administrators, no going into the Administrator center)
• SID (Session IDs) for user logins
• Complete member groups (change member group color on Board Index, allow other member groups to become administrators, etc.)
• Administrators can disable nearly every feature of the forum
• Maintenance Mode or Forum Lockout for maintenance (or for new forums so non-administrators can access via Forum Lockout)
• Private boards, categories, and pass worded boards
• Certain boards or categories can be inaccessible to unregistered members (without using password)
• Customize the colors of the forum via Admin Control panel, or via the forum template (CSS)