Great board - Great features

What are our advantages over other free forum hosting services?

• Instead of http://s1.theirdomains.com/user/?gb=yourforum other hosts provide, we give you a nice and easy to remember URL: yourforum.greatboard.com
• We support over 40 languages and hundreds of skins for you to choose from. We also install additional language files and skins upon request free of charge.
• At Greatboard, your forum can have unlimited number of posts and users, and unlimited of data transfer.
• 99.9% uptime
• Search engine friendly URL's

phpBB features (from phpBB website)

Security

• Designed with security as a priority
• Powerful and extensive authorisation system
• Strong encryption to keep passwords safe in the database
• Support for both cookie and URI-based sessions

Unlimited Forums & Categories

• Unlimited forums can be organised into as many categories as you like
• Private forums and those only for specified user groups
• Powerful search facility

Posting Messages

• Message formatting with various font styles and sizes as well as allowing quoting, code display, image posting and automatic URL linking
• Support of standard and extended BBCode tags and controlled HTML tags
• Polls can be simply added to posts
• Email notification of replies to your topics
• Powerful topic subscription capability
• Original emoticons to portray emotions

Versatile User Groups & Forum Permissions

• Powerful forum, user and group permission management
• Control forum access to specified user groups
• Control all aspects of the posting experience
• Allow limited access to viewing, posting, replying and many other options

Member Features

• Unlimited members
• Personal profile creation
• Post counting and administrator-definable ranks for users
• Email-like private messaging system
• Supports local, remote and uploadable avatars

Moderation Features

• Topic editing
• Mass delete/move/lock/unlock of posts
• Topic splitting
• Option of auto-pruning of old or unanswered messages on a per-forum basis

Easy to Use Administration Centre

• General configuration
• Forum & category setup
• Easy database backup and restore
• Disallowed usernames
• User authorisation
• Word censoring
• Complete member management
• Emoticon setup
• Optional new post verification
• Extensive ban management, ban by email address, username or single/multiple IP address or hostname
• IP tracking of posts and posters
• Mass emailing of groups and users by the administrator