YaBB

Infobox_Software
name = YaBB

caption =
developer = [http://www.yabbforum.com/team.php YaBB Project Team]
latest_release_version = YaBB 2.2.3
latest_release_date = July 13, 2008
latest preview version = YaBB 3 Alpha
latest preview date =
operating_system = Cross-platform
genre = Bulletin Board
license = [http://www.yabbforum.com/licenses.php Other]
website = [http://www.yabbforum.com/ 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. cite web | url=http://www.yabbforum.com/features.php | title=YaBB Features | accessdate=2008-04-15 ] The YaBB team encourages modifications of the board, and helps support the Boardmod community, which sprung up in response. cite web | url=http://www.boardmod.org/project.php | title=The BoardMod Project | accessdate=2008-04-15] YaBB was initially released on July 4, 2000.cite web | url=http://www.yabbforum.com/history.php | title=YaBB's History | accessdate=2008-04-15 ]

=Current Team cite web | url=http://www.yabbforum.com/team.php | title=YaBB Project Team | accessdate=2008-04-15] =

Team members are listed in their primary team functions.

Administrators

*Zef Hemel - Founder
*Corey Chapman - Project Administrator & Webmaster
*Aleksi Konttinen (Alexik) - Project Administrator cite web | url=http://www.yabbforum.com/community/YaBB.pl?action=ml;sort=position | title=YaBB Members Listing | accessdate=2008-04-15]
*Remy Monsen (Monsen) - Global Moderator
*John Pahl (Captain John) - Global Moderator

Development

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

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

Support

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

Related Projects

*Michael Prager - Boardmod Leader

ecurity

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. cite web | url=http://www.yabbisback.com/media/Interview_2005-09-14.pdf | title=Interview with Corey Chapman, YaBB Project Leader | accessdate=2008-04-16 | date=2005-09-14 | author=The Sandman ]

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.

Releases

* Stable: YaBB 1 Gold - SP 1.4 (Y1.x series development & support has ceased).
* Stable: YaBB 2.2.1 (released March 5, 2008).
* Development: YaBB 3.x series (currently in alpha development, no official release date).

ee also

* YaBB SE
* BoardMod
* Comparison of Internet forum software

External links

* [http://www.yabbforum.com YaBBForum.com - The official home of YaBB.]
* [http://www.yabbforum.com/community YaBB Support Forum - The official support forum for the YaBB community.]
* [http://www.yabbcodex.com YaBB Codex - The official YaBB online manual, "Docs, FAQs & Info".]
* [http://www.yabbdirectory.org YaBB Directory Project - A community-based directory of YaBB forums.]
* [http://www.yabbserver.com/ YaBB Server - A specialized server variant of YaBB.]
* [http://www.yabbtoolbar.com YaBB Toolbar - YaBB's official browser add-on & news service.]
* [http://www.boardmod.org BoardMod - YaBB's official modding & templating community.]

References