YaBB

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YaBB
YaBB Logo.png
Developer(s) YaBB Project Team
Stable release YaBB 2.4 / April 13, 2009
Preview release YaBB 3 Alpha
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Bulletin Board
License Other
Website yabbforum.com

YaBB (Yet another Bulletin Board) is a freeware, visible source message board and instant messaging system written in Perl. YaBB utilizes a flat file system to store forum data, instead of a database management system, which has become increasingly common in forum software.[1] The YaBB team encourages modifications of the board, and helps support the Boardmod community, which sprung up in response.[2] YaBB was initially released on July 4, 2000.[3]

Contents

[edit] Current Team [4]

Team members are listed in their primary team functions.

[edit] Administrators

  • Zef Hemel - Founder
  • Corey Chapman - Project Administrator & Webmaster
  • Aleksi Konttinen (Alexik) - Project Administrator [5]
  • John Pahl (Captain John) - Global Moderator[5]

[edit] Development

[edit] Yabb 2 Sustaining

  • Ron A.J. Hartendorp (Spikecity) - YaBB 2 Lead Developer, Dutch Moderator
  • Boris Tjuvanov (MF-B) - YaBB 2 Developer
  • Jeffrey Man (Jet Li) - YaBB 2 Developer
  • Carsten Dalgaard (Carsten) - YaBB 2 Developer
  • Andrew Aitken (LoonyPandora) - YaBB 2 Developer

[edit] Yabb 3 Development

  • Torsten Mrotz (T-Master) - YaBB 3 Co-Lead Developer, BoardMod Administrator
  • Matt Siegman (Matt) - YaBB 3 Co-Lead Developer
  • Jeffrey Gelens (JeffG) - YaBB 3 Developer
  • Alexander Boyadjiev (alex_james_b) - YaBB 3 Developer, Bulgarian Language Team Leader

[edit] Support

  • Curtiss Grymala (Curdy G) - Support Team Member
  • Kevin Smith (Kev) - Support Team Member
  • Tom Bossa (O.H. Eng) - Support Team Member

[edit] Related Projects

[edit] Security

With YaBB 2, one of the primary focuses for the development team was security. Many bulletin board systems suffer from similar attacks, such as cross-site scripting, and the team did not want YaBB to suffer from the same problems. Working with several groups of hackers, the team developed several new methods to prevent the most common attacks. Through this effort, the team has added flooding protections on many functions, a better banning system, proxy blocking, referrer blocking, dereferring on external links, harvester blocking, and several other types protections. A team member (Ron) decided to call this new system "The Guardian", as he did most of the work to create it.[6]

[edit] Features

Features of YaBB include posts, members, boards, categories, file attachments, private messaging, forum statistics, member banning, template configuration, email, unlimited smilies, member permissions (such as moderator, admin etc.), news fader, category permissions, board permissions, censored words and many, many more.

[edit] Releases

  • Stable: YaBB 1 Gold - SP 1.4 (Y1.x series development & support has ceased).
  • Stable: YaBB 2.4 (released April 13, 2009).
  • Development: YaBB 3.x series (currently in alpha development, no official release date).

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ "YaBB Features". http://www.yabbforum.com/features.php. Retrieved 2008-04-15. 
  2. ^ "The BoardMod Project". http://www.boardmod.org/project.php. Retrieved 2008-04-15. 
  3. ^ "YaBB's History". http://www.yabbforum.com/history.php. Retrieved 2008-04-15. 
  4. ^ "YaBB Project Team". http://www.yabbforum.com/team.php. Retrieved 2008-04-15. 
  5. ^ a b "YaBB Members Listing". http://www.yabbforum.com/community/YaBB.pl?action=ml;sort=position. Retrieved 2008-04-15. 
  6. ^ The Sandman (2005-09-14). "Interview with Corey Chapman, YaBB Project Leader". http://www.yabbisback.com/media/Interview_2005-09-14.pdf. Retrieved 2008-04-16. 
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