- Quicksilver Forums
Infobox_Software
name = Quicksilver Forums
caption = Screenshot of a version 1.4.1 fresh install
developer = Geoff Dunn, Roger Libiez and The Quicksilver Forums Development Team
latest_release_version = 1.4.1
latest_release_date =September 29 ,2007
operating_system =Cross-platform
genre = Forum software
license = GPL
website = [http://www.quicksilverforums.com/ www.quicksilverforums.com]Quicksilver Forums, or QSF, is a bulletin board system written in
PHP andMySQL . It usesObject-oriented programming and is optimized for speed. QSF checks all inputs though a common interface. The system also allows customisable templates. Advanced permissions system allows for fine grained group and user permissions. The software is released under theGNU General Public License and based on the popularMercuryBoard software.History
Quicksilver Forums is derived from the
MercuryBoard 1.1.5-CVS software. Around the beginning of September 2005, the mercuryboard.com website was unavailable. Combined with the previous lack of development activity from the MercuryBoard staff, it had been feared that the domain was forgotten and taken over by squatters and that the project was dead. The mercuryboard.org and .net domains were purchased to block squatters from getting ahold of those as well.Roger Libiez had been privately working on some improvements that made the forum a bit easier to use and fixing a few small bugs here and there. Upon noting the domain being down, he decided to release what he had been updating to the public. This interim release was based on the last CVS branch from mercuryboard.com.
Other developers soon took interest and a fork began. It operated as MercuryBoard 1.1.5 while in development until the official name Quicksilver Forums was chosen. This name acknowledges the heritage of the software as a descendant of MercuryBoard.
After the mercuryboard.com website came back up, the MercuryBoard developers gave their blessing for the continued development of the Quicksilver Forums branch.
See also
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MercuryBoard External links
* [http://www.quicksilverforums.com/ Quicksilver Forums] Project homepage
* [http://planet.quicksilverforums.com/ Planet QSF] Official Quicksilver Forums Resource Centre
* [http://www.qsfportal.com/ QSF Portal] The official forum portal-addon site.Popular sites using Quicksilver Forums
* [http://www.mudbytes.net/ MudBytes] MudBytes Code Repository
* [http://www.smaugmuds.org/ SmaugMuds.org] - The Smaug MUDs Community Center
* [http://www.kmuddy.com/ KMuddy] KMuddy MUD client discussion site
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