- MiniBB
miniBB stands for "mini bulletin board", a fast and lightweight PHP-powered flat-type free open source
discussion board software. It is released under theGNU General Public License . Its primary goals are being user-friendly, fast and not overwhelmed by a large number rarely used features as compared to other discussion board software.miniBB can be used on all operating systems that are able to support the
PHP scripting language. Current release of miniBB supportsMySQL database as the default data storage.History
miniBB project was initially created by Paul Puzyrev and Sergei Larionov. Both programmers come from
Latvia ,Riga .Both Sergei and Paul were willing to start their own project on
PHP . Paul needed a simple customizable forum system, so he involved Sergei in the miniBB project, which turned into the maturebulletin board software with its own pecularities, making it different from many other freeopen source boards.First released on February 19, 2002, miniBB is now running on tens of thousands of communities all over the
world wide web . Some of the worlds biggest discussion boards with over a million of posts are using miniBB.miniBB differed from its competitors by the reduced size, options, optimized programming code and oversimplified interface. This software displays the simplicity associated with minimalism, being like "art-of-programming", conceptual software. This software is proposed to be installed and used by those who like minimalism, simplicity of style, with achievement by using a few very simple elements to maximum effect. It could be downloaded and installed by anybody with the minimum technical knowledge as well.
On September 25th 2007, miniBB became a registered
trademark in United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO ).External links
Official
* [http://www.minibb.com/ miniBB]
* [http://www.minibb.com/forums/ miniBB Support Forums]
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