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Original author(s) | Ilia Alshanetsky |
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Developer(s) | Community (Advanced Internet Designs Inc.) |
Initial release | 2001 |
Stable release | |
Repository | |
Written in | PHP |
Operating system | Any |
Platform | Cross-platform |
Available in | Multilingual (English and 50+ other languages) |
Type | Forum software Mailing list archiver |
License | GPL v2.0 only |
Website | Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived 2024-09-15) |
FUDforum is a free and open-source Internet forum software, originally produced by Advanced Internet Designs Inc., that is now maintained by the user community. The name "FUDforum" is an abbreviation of Fast Uncompromising Discussion forum. [2] It is comparable to other forum software. FUDforum is customizable and has a large feature set relative to other forum packages. [3]
FUDforum runs on a number of operating systems that are able to support the PHP programming language, including Unix, Linux and Windows systems. The interface is based on HTML5 with CSS, jQuery and AJAX. [4]
The code is released under the General Public License v2.0 only and Internet sites can use the software royalty-free.
FUDforum was originally developed by Ilia Alshanetsky. The first version of FUDforum was released in 2001. Versions 2.8.0 and above are developed and supported by the community.
The 10 year anniversary release, FUDforum 3.0.3, was released on 10 September 2011.
FUDforum requires the following components to function:
Two special pre-configured versions of FUDforum are available (doesn't require manual installation):
Some of FUDforum's features include:
A MediaWiki extension and Drupal CMS module is available to provide FUDforum integration. FUDforum can also be integrated with systems like DokuWiki and eGroupWare (not with eGroupware version 1.6).
Custom integration of third-party tools can be achieved via FUDforum's provided API, called FUDAPI.
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