Quicksilver Forums 1.3.1 review

Quicksilver Forums is a fast, feature rich bulletin board system

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Quicksilver Forums Development Team

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Quicksilver Forums is a fast, feature rich bulletin board system. Quicksilver Forums is fully object oriented and optimized for speed, ease of use, and easy modification.

It checks all inputs though a common interface, which drastically reduces the chances of exploitable bugs. A powerful and flexible skinning engine makes giving your board a new look very simple.

An advanced permissions system allows for fine-grained group and user permissions. It is based on the popular MercuryBoard software.

Here are some key features of "Quicksilver Forums":
Fast and light
Rich in features
3D permissions system
Powerful admin controls
Complete skinning
Translated into 18 languages
Optimised MySQL interaction
Easy to customise
Released under the GPL licence
Free for commercial or personal use

What's New in This Release:
Updated German translation - Jens
Updated Norwegian translation - Ingvild
Updated Swedish tranlsation - ladyanna
Added a warning on install if folders are not writable
Quick reply bbcode and smileys load on focus
New backup tool uses XML

Bugs addressed:

Renamed zip class to avoid conflict (#952)
Jump to newest post on recent posts was using old urls
Made sure textarea boxes are readable on usual windows themes - Matt
User posts can go negative (#957)
Censor words was not processing properly - harakiro
Converted most languages to utf-8 for JSON compatibility
Fixing icons in recent posts page (#888)
Not all backups and skins were showing in restore/install lists
Validation error in CP_PREFS template
Undefined string variable during board upgrade. Not fatal.
Topic marker crash for subforums.
Forum recount only needs to send the display when used from the AdminCP.