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• 22:33, 12 October 2025 Ravenfreak talk contribs created page Category:Forum Wiki Staff (Created page with "The current staff editors of The Forum Wiki pages are located under this category.")
• 22:32, 12 October 2025 Ravenfreak talk contribs created page Category:User Pages (Created page with "Pages listed under here are personal pages that describe users on here on The Forum Wiki. Editors do not need to make a page, but they can if they also wish to use it as a sandbox page to test things out.")
• 22:30, 12 October 2025 Ravenfreak talk contribs created page Category:Site Information (Created page with "Pages listed under this category are important pages describing information regarding either this website, or other websites listed in pages throughout the wiki.")
• 22:28, 12 October 2025 Ravenfreak talk contribs protected Forum Wiki [Edit=Allow only administrators] (indefinite) [Move=Allow only administrators] (indefinite) (hist)
• 22:28, 12 October 2025 Ravenfreak talk contribs created page Forum Wiki (Created page with "''The Forum Wiki'' is a wiki powered by Mediawiki that documents forum software as well as free forum hosts. It was founded in 2023 by Ravenfreak and serves to be a helpful resource for all forum enthusiasts and those wanting to learn more about lesser known forum scripts. ==Why The Forum Wiki Exists== This wiki exists because forums are slowly becoming less popular as social media and chat clients are taking over the internet. Despite this there are...")
• 22:15, 12 October 2025 Ravenfreak talk contribs created page File:XMB's Logo.png (The current logo for the forum software XMB, AKA eXtreme Message Board)
• 22:15, 12 October 2025 Ravenfreak talk contribs uploaded File:XMB's Logo.png (The current logo for the forum software XMB, AKA eXtreme Message Board)
• 22:03, 12 October 2025 Ravenfreak talk contribs created page Category:Free Forum Software (Created page with "The forum software in this category are free scripts that you can download and install to a web server.")
• 19:00, 30 November 2023 Arantor talk contribs created page MiniBB (Created page with "{{stub}} miniBB is a standalone free to download forum software. More information: https://www.minibb.com/ Category: Free Forum Software Category: Stubs")
• 18:58, 30 November 2023 Arantor talk contribs created page Codoforum (Created page with "{{stub}} Codoforum is a free forum platform. More information: https://codoforum.com/ Category: Free Forum Software Category: Stubs")
• 02:10, 29 November 2023 Ravenfreak talk contribs protected Template:Stub [Edit=Allow only administrators] (indefinite) [Move=Allow only administrators] (indefinite) (hist)
• 02:09, 29 November 2023 Ravenfreak talk contribs created page Category:Stubs (Created page with "Pages in the stub category need more information added to them. Be sure to use the Stub template as well as this category to bring awareness to the page.")
• 02:07, 29 November 2023 Ravenfreak talk contribs created page Xenforo (Created page with "{{stub}} 300px|thumb|Right|Xenforo's Support Forum '''Xenforo''' is a threaded paid forum software that was first released in 2010. Developed by a few ex vBulletin developers, it is one of the most popular forum platforms used today. Customers can either chose to self host their Xenforo board, or purchase their cloud hosting. Many communities who once used vBulletin or Invision Power Services have made the switch to Xenforo...")
• 02:06, 29 November 2023 Ravenfreak talk contribs created page File:XenForo community.png (This is a screenshot of the Xenforo support forums.)
• 02:06, 29 November 2023 Ravenfreak talk contribs uploaded File:XenForo community.png (This is a screenshot of the Xenforo support forums.)
• 02:04, 29 November 2023 Ravenfreak talk contribs created page Template:Stub (Created page with "{| style="color: white; background-color: #ffffcc; width: 50%;" | style="width: 70%; background-color: #002f6c;"| '''''This article is a stub. Please feel free to add any information you may have to the page.''''' |}")
• 03:25, 26 November 2023 User account Fords8 talk contribs was created
• 01:31, 26 November 2023 Arantor talk contribs created page StoryBB (Created page with "StoryBB was a fork of SMF that was started in 2017 and (mostly) discontinued in 2022, intended as both a modernisation project of the SMF code, but also with a distinct focus on roleplay features. Support for the idea of 'characters' as a subset of accounts (as opposed to 'subaccounts' being real accounts connected together) is a core feature, along with several other roleplay-first features including 'in character' vs 'out of character' boards, complete with revise...")
• 01:27, 26 November 2023 Arantor talk contribs created page Woltlab Burning Board (Created page with "Woltlab Burning Board is a forum and content management suite produced by Woltlab GmbH in Germany. The core is a CMS, which is offered for free, with the forum, gallery and other modules being paid extras. While WBB 3 was offered in English, it was generally understood that support in German was very much the norm and little English support was available; with WBB 4 onwards, there has been a pronounced effort to support English users. More information: https://www.wol...")
• 01:24, 26 November 2023 Arantor talk contribs created page XMB (Created page with "XMB - eXtreme Message Board - was originally started in 2001, and went dormant around 2007. The community subsequently picked it up and continued maintaining it. More information: https://www.xmbforum2.com/")
• 01:17, 26 November 2023 Arantor talk contribs created page Vesta (Created page with "Vesta is a roleplay-focused forum platform, designed from scratch by Kendra Alvarez. Prior to 2018, Kendra, under the handle Arceus, had produced a mod for SMF for running roleplays but was dissatisfied with the SMF community and the lack of progress SMF was making and instead decided to roll her own. The project was originally known as Gaia Athens, later Vesta Athens, with a mentioned in-development edition called Salerno. The software was originally available for a...")
• 01:13, 26 November 2023 Arantor talk contribs created page Invision Power Services (Created page with "Invision Power Services is the name of the company Matt Mecham went to work for after departing IkonBoard They are the developers of the platform previously known as Invision Power Board (IPB), Invision Power Services (IPS) and currently Invision Community. More information: https://invisioncommunity.com/")
• 01:11, 26 November 2023 Arantor talk contribs created page IkonBoard (Created page with "IkonBoard was founded in autumn 1999 by Matt Mecham as a Perl-based forum system that would store posts as files on the server. Work continued from version 0.9 in autumn 1999 to the 3.x series in 2002, under Mecham's leadership and it grew new features (including database support), but owing to business interests and the sale to a corporate owner, Mecham would ultimately depart in 2002 to form Invision Power Services. Meanwhile development would loosely continue -...")
• 01:05, 26 November 2023 Arantor talk contribs created page XenForo (Created page with "XenForo is a paid platform founded in 2009 (with initial release in 2010) by Kier Darby and Mike Sullivan, formerly lead and senior developer at Jelsoft, creators of vBulletin (though Kier was not lead developer until the 2.x series) More information: https://xenforo.com/")
• 01:04, 26 November 2023 Arantor talk contribs created page VBulletin (Created page with "Note: the correct name of this platform is vBulletin; the capitalisation of the V is enforced by the wiki software. == Early history == vBulletin was founded in 1999 or thereabouts, run by a company called Jelsoft, with a first release in 2000, which was commercial only. By 2007, the 3.x series had become one of the de-facto solutions for web based forums, and owing to the number of forums they themselves ran using the software, Jelsoft was acquired by Internet Brands...")
• 00:52, 26 November 2023 Arantor talk contribs created page YAF.NET (Created page with "YAF.NET stands for 'Yet Another Forum.NET' reflecting that it is written using the .NET framework (specifically, C# with ASP.NET) More information: https://www.yetanotherforum.net/ GitHub repo: https://github.com/YAFNET/YAFNET")
• 00:50, 26 November 2023 Arantor talk contribs created page CBACK (Created page with "CBACK is a self-hosted forum platform written in PHP. The development team is German, though the platform is dual language. Website: https://cback.net/en/ - licenses start at €39 for a one-site license with 1 year support.")
• 00:48, 26 November 2023 Arantor talk contribs created page PunBB (Created page with "PunBB was founded in 2003 to be a lightweight, fast forum eschewing some common features to be add-ons (e.g. polls were not a core feature). PunBB's lead developer left the project in 2008, for which principle development was forked into FluxBB by a new team. There is a small but dedicated community still maintaining PunBB over at https://punbb.informer.com/ GitHub repo: https://github.com/punbb/punbb")
• 00:46, 26 November 2023 Arantor talk contribs created page FluxBB (Created page with "FluxBB was founded in 2008 as a fork of PunBB citing the need to keep it free of commercial interests, after the original founder left that project. The last major release was in 2018, though maintenance commits are visible in the GitHub repo from 2021. The project used to have a website at fluxbb.org but this is not working as of November 2023. GitHub repo: https://github.com/fluxbb/fluxbb")
• 00:42, 26 November 2023 Arantor talk contribs created page Flarum (Created page with "Flarum is a modern PHP-based, mobile-first community platform. More information: https://flarum.org/")
• 00:38, 26 November 2023 Arantor talk contribs created page MyBB (Created page with "MyBB was founded in 2002 as an alternative forum platform to phpBB and YABB SE, with more than a passing nod to vBulletin in its technical and aesthetic design choices. MyBB is still actively developed, available in a self-hosted form, and is written in PHP. More information: https://mybb.com/")
• 00:36, 26 November 2023 Arantor talk contribs created page Protendo (Created page with "Protendo was a short-lived fork from SMF that started sometime in 2011. Its primary developer was 'Bloc', one of the most prevalent designers in the SMF community and someone that had worked on the default theme in the past (mostly on 1.1's Core and 2.0's Curve) Protendo was based on the view that the frontend theme should be able to control precisely how things should be displayed, even if the data was not necessarily available (a design trait driven originally by SMF...")
• 00:33, 26 November 2023 Arantor talk contribs created page ElkArte (Created page with "ElkArte is a fork of SMF that occurred in 2012 after some questionable comments were made that caused the entire development team to resign in unison. Having largely completed what they considered a viable SMF 2.1 to their satisfaction, they forked and began a process of modernising the software internally and throughout. More information: https://www.elkarte.net/")
• 00:31, 26 November 2023 Arantor talk contribs created page Wedge (Created page with "Wedge is a fork of SMF. It was started in the summer of 2010 as a private fork of SMF because at that time the license had not yet been opened. It was formed by two prominent members of SMF's ecosystem, Arantor and Nao, who felt very strongly that after the internal struggles of the team in early 2010, that SMF had a limited future. From 2010 to 2013 they worked to modernise SMF and add new features. Arantor left in summer 2013 citing personal tension with Nao, and...")
• 00:26, 26 November 2023 Arantor talk contribs created page SMF (Created page with "SMF - Simple Machines Forum - was founded in 2003 after license issues with YABB SE. The original core development team was Jeff Lewis, Joseph Fung and "[Unknown] W. Brackets", and SMF 1.0 was released in 2004. == 1.0 release == During the development phase, it was referred to as 'Unknown's secret project', and developed alongside security patches and support for YABB SE but all major development had stopped on YABB SE by early 2003 to make way for SMF. It debute...")
• 00:16, 26 November 2023 Arantor talk contribs created page YABB SE (Created page with "YABB SE, or Yet Another Bulletin Board (Splinter Edition), was founded in 2001 shortly after the 1.0 release of YABB, by Jeff Lewis and Joseph Fung, as a rewrite/port of YABB to the PHP language, because Perl wasn't commonly available on hosting environments. It was actively developed until 2003 or so, and released under the GNU GPL license. == SuperMod == Sometime in 2002, an unofficial release of YABB SE was made, under the name SuperMod. This comprised the late...")
• 00:11, 26 November 2023 Arantor talk contribs created page YABB (Created page with "YABB, short for Yet Another Bulletin Board, was created by Zef Hemel and others sometime in 2000. It is self hosted and written in Perl. Original versions of the software did not use a database but stored all the posts as files on the server.")
• 00:09, 26 November 2023 Arantor talk contribs created page Ultimate Bulletin Board (Created page with "Ultimate Bulletin Board is one of the oldest web forum platforms that is still operating, and is often considered one of the progenitors of the format. It is self-hosted, but is a paid platform. More information: https://www.ubbcentral.com/")
• 00:04, 26 November 2023 User account Arantor talk contribs was created
• 06:28, 25 November 2023 Ravenfreak talk contribs protected User:Ravenfreak [Edit=Allow only administrators] (indefinite) [Move=Allow only administrators] (indefinite) (hist)
• 06:28, 25 November 2023 Ravenfreak talk contribs created page User:Ravenfreak (Created page with "'''Ravenfreak''' is the founder and current owner of the Forum Wiki. He is a 33 year old guy who's been using Forums since 2006 and has over a decade of forum experience. He is currently a Service Team Member on Admin Junkies, a popular webmaster forum with over 400 members. His favorite color is green, favorite free software is SMF and favorite paid software is Woltlab Suite. He's also a huge fan of Sonic the Hedgehog. Catego...")
• 06:27, 25 November 2023 Ravenfreak talk contribs created page PhpBB (Created page with "'''phpBB''' is a free threaded forum software that is written in php. The software made it's debut in the year 2000 and has been used to power numerous communities for over two decades. Free forum hosts such as Tapatalk and Forumotion use a modified version of the software. === Ease of Use === phpBB has a learning curve that may make newcomers weary of using the software. User group permissions can be difficult to set up for new admins. In order for members,...")
• 06:23, 25 November 2023 Ravenfreak talk contribs protected Main Page [Edit=Allow only administrators] (indefinite) [Move=Allow only administrators] (indefinite) (hist)
• 06:21, 25 November 2023 MediaWiki default talk contribs created page Main Page