This forum system features passworded boards, click tracking, extensive thread moderation, a full admin center, clean posting format, themes, user message blocks, attachments, message search and more.

• Free

A new, totally free bulletin board system that aims to provide you with all the features of commercial products. Very fast, very customizable and includes extensive administration/moderation options.

• Free

An open source online forum/message board system that began development in 2000. It includes XHTML compliance, RSS feeds, advanced security and spam settings, an advanced post editor, full admin and settings for everything, topic notification, favorites, buddy list, private messaging, stats, private boards, news, recent posts, emoticons and more.

• Free

A discussion board package featuring a fast-loading, customizable user interface that features user registration and password recovery, icons to indicate new posts, uploading of images and attachments, e-mail notification, and more.

• Free
• $149.95

WebBBS is a Web-based bulletin board. WebBBS stores messages as simple text files and creates HTML pages "on the fly." This means that the message index can be tailored by the user based on date and/or subject (via built-in keyword search capability), and can be viewed as either a chronological or a threaded list. Administration is also a breeze! WebBBS supports automatic quoting of message text and e-mail notification of those who want to know immediately when a new message has been posted. It also offers an archive-only option and "cookie" support!

• $50

Includes features like file upload, chat, rating, poll, email notification, edit/delete by user, form mail, and more.

• Free

Full-featured, downloadable bulletin board with unlimited forums. Extensive administrative options. A 4-tier membership system, including administrators, moderators, members, and junior members. Can change user permissions, profile information, and system variables through the browser. Key features include private messaging with buddy/ignore lists, member ratings, automatic smilies, member-only access, HTML emails to members, age-screening option, customization with style templates, and alteration/translation of any display text directly from the browser-based control panel. This translation feature allows multiple languages or character sets within a single message board.

This message board features guests posting limitations, reply email notification, and many moderating tools. File paths are automatically detected for easy installation.

• Free

A fully customizable bulletin board with multiple categories/forums, announcements, custom emoticons support, integrated search, and more.

• Free

A web-based bulletin board system. Unlike most other such boards, it lets users define how they display the message index and the messages. A wide variety of options are available to the admin and the users to tailor the message index and the message page.

• Free

XMLBoard is a free XML-driven multi-forum message board written in Perl. It is unique in that it stores the posts in XML format, and uses the Perl module XML::Parser to read the XML and format HTML for the user. It is easy to set up several forums with several designs, with one administrator for each forum.

• Free

These message boards feature extensive admin functionality and customization and a setup interface for easy installation.

• Free
• $79

An easy to use interface offers a member the choice of a conversational or threaded format and allows them to customize their forum experience. Sticky features include built-in member profiles and forum histories, as well as moderated, read-only and private forums or threads; powerful searching and embedded polls and scripting.

• $399

A message board that features free or fee based membership, photo and multimedia files with posting, user post/edit/delete/reply abilities, keyword searching, and mail lists. Script can work with text based or MySQL databases.

• Free
• $185

This script runs a simple Bulletin Board System. A user can post a question or comment and followup responses can be attached. The script inserts the newest items at the top, creates separate pages to store the followups and links them to the original posting. E-Mails the original user when a followup is posted to their comment/question.

• Free

Almost a plug-and-play Web board. One script is able to maintain any number of boards, i.e. secure boards for registered users. Ruboard was initially based on WWWBoard by Matt Wright, but is completely rewriten now.

Sol explains, "Your basic BBS. This Bulletin Board Script allows archived usenet-like archived discussion. Users can post new messages or respond to old ones such that their responses will create decending threads of conversation.

• Free

This script features unlimited boards, each customizable and fully threaded. It includes personal, colored membership handles, web-based config, IP/URL banning, searching and more.

• Free

HyperThread brings you and your web site a real discussion engine, fully ready to deploy as a bulletin board, discussion group, or question & answer forum -- with easy interfaces for users and administrators, integrated keyword searching and more. Single-conference shareware version available for downloading from the site.

• $250

Give away free message boards to your surfers for a link back to a site of your choice. It supports unlimited message boards, admin controls to display a banner and more.

• $30

A customizable, powerful and secure forum software. It can handle frontends like MSN, NNTP and Wap, and database backends like MySQL and postgreSQL. It easily integrates with other programs and is translated in several languages. Advanced plugin and template systems allow you to easily change anything on the board.

• $25.99
• $89.99

An open-source, web-based forum system that uses a MySQL database and is compatible with mod_perl 1.0 and 2.0 for optimal performance. mwForum's design goals are comfortable operation and admin, stability, security and speed, a professional and consistent look, and clean code to make customization easy.

• Free

A clean and quick message board system featuring several of the most popular features and more coming every day. Using the new "Auto Update" feature you can make sure that your copy has all of the latest additions. It features an efficient and robust directory structure. It's very configurable and simple to run and maintain.

• Free

Self replicating message forum script. Completely automated, it allows for free and fee based operation.

• Free

A BBS script that supports binary uploads (images).

• Free