An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can
hold conversations in the form of posted messages,They differ from chat rooms in
that messages are not shown in real-time, to see new messages the forum page must
be reloaded. Also, depending on the access level of a user and/or the forum set-up,
a posted message might need to be approved by a moderator before it becomes visible.
Forums have their own language; e.g. A single conversation is called a 'thread'.
A forum is hierarchical or tree-like in structure: forum - subforum - topic - thread
- reply.
Depending on the forum set-up, users can be anonymous or have to register with the
forum and then subsequently login in order to post messages. Usually you do not
have to login to read existing messages.
MyBB
MyBB is a free bulletin board system software package developed by the MyBB
Group. It is written in PHP and licensed as free software under the GNU General
Public License, version 3.
History
MyBB was founded in 2002 by Chris Boulton following a fork of the XMB development
team. DevBB, a fork of the XMB code base, was created as a temporary solution while
the new MyBB development team worked on the first MyBB release.
MyBB RC1 was released on December 10, 2003, and was one of the first public releases
of MyBB. After three years of development and numerous other pre-releases, MyBB
1.00 was released to the public on December 9, 2005, marking the beginning of the
1.0x/1.1.x series. On March 9, 2006, MyBB 1.1.0 was released, which fixed a number
of outstanding issues with the 1.0x code base. The final release of the 1.0/1.1
series was MyBB 1.1.8, a security update, released August 29, 2006.
On September 2, 2006, MyBB 1.2 was released. It included a thoroughly rewritten
and revised code base and over 40 new features. The final release of the 1.2 series
was MyBB 1.2.14, a security and maintenance update, released on July 17, 2008. Support
for the 1.2 series ended on June 1, 2009, and security vulnerability maintenance
of the series ended on December 31, 2009.
On August 2, 2008, MyBB 1.4 was released to the public following a long private
and public beta test period. It featured over 70 features and changes, including
a completely rewritten and redesigned administrator control panel, numerous new
user moderation features, and a new calendar system. As with previous releases,
MyBB 1.4 was released under its own proprietary license, but on October 12, 2008,
it was moved to the GNU General Public License v3 license, making it a free and
open source software. MyBB 1.4.2 was the first release of MyBB released under the
GPL.
MyBB has had a closed development process since its creation. However, following
the change to an open source license, preparations were made to open up MyBB development.
On August 19, 2009, the MyBB development site was opened to the public, giving users
read access to the MyBB subversion, including both the maintenance branch and the
development trunk, as well as the official bug and feature tracker.

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