FluxBB
FluxBB aims to be a fast and lightweight PHP-powered discussion board. It is released under the GNU General Public License. Its primary goals are to be faster, smaller and less graphically intensive when compared to other discussion boards. FluxBB incorporates fewer features than other, comparable forum scripts, choosing to focus on the primary functionality of an online forum. Features that are not deemed as essential to the software are often implemented either by the development team or by users as extensions. As a result of this more focused feature set, FluxBB is generally faster and outputs smaller, semantically correct XHTML and CSS-compliant pages.
Currently, FluxBB runs on a number of operating systems that are able to support the PHP scripting language. To store its data, FluxBB relies on either MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite.
It takes its origins from PunBB on May 9, 2008. Currently PunBB is importing many of the changes to the FluxBB core into its own SVN to maintain compatibility between the two forum systems, it is foreseen that the two forums’ feature sets will diverge in the future.
History
FluxBB is a fork of PunBB which was created by Rickard Andersson. In 2007, PunBB was sold to a commercial company. Development continued under the direction of Rickard Andersson until April 2008. At that time Rickard Andersson announced he would be ceasing his active involvement with the project, at least temporarily.
In light of the changed circumstances the remaining members of the development team decided to fork the project in order to regain control over future project direction. FluxBB was the result of this decision.
The current stable release is FluxBB 1.2.21. FluxBB 1.2.18 is an update to PunBB 1.2.17. The next version, FluxBB 1.3, is under active development and is currently in a beta stage.
FluxBB was announced as a finalist in SourceForge.net’s 2008 Community Choice Awards in the “Best New Project” category.
Connor, a developer of FluxBB, announced that the development of FluxBB has been changed. FluxBB 1.2 would be 1.4 in the future, and FluxBB 1.3 would be 2.0 with more functions.
Features
FluxBB’s default theme is called Oxygen.
Semantic and valid XHTML and CSSSupports MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLiteSupport for translation and per-user language settingsDistributed under GNU General Public LicenceMultiple themes with per-user settings
Future development
FluxBB 1.4, which is a direct upgrade from 1.2, will include new features such as full UTF-8 support which 1.3 includes. Besides, forums powered by FluxBB 1.3 will be able to be upgraded to FluxBB 1.4 completely.
FluxBB 2.0, which will be under development soon, adds a one-click extension system which will allow users to easily extend features and functionality. Version 2.0 also improves markup and CSS, and FluxBB 2.0 will add other important functions such as a templating system, subforums/no categories mode in the future.