The following are the features planned for v1.0. (Basically all what one wants today and looks forward to in future.) Only the basic features have been implemented now, with the rest being added slowly but surely always taking into consideration the speed of execution. We are also looking forward to suggestions from users and your comments will surely help the development process.

• Basic Features

  • User control panel, with various options
  • Forums, topics and posts
  • Private messaging
  • Administration and Moderation
  • Skin and Language based

• Security

  • Re-authentication required on auto-logins
  • Re-authentication required for Admin Control Panel
  • Extensive Permissions - Group based, forum based
  • Password Encryption

• User system

  • Welcome PM
  • User Profile
  • Detailed Profile page, including Testimonials and Recent Visitors and Profile Picture
  • Friends and Foes
  • User Avatars
  • User Groups
  • User Reputation
  • User Referrals
  • User status levels
  • Temporary and Permanent User Bans

• Posting

  • Smilies, BBCode and HTML allowed in posts
  • Advanced text editor
  • Toolbar with common features
  • Word censoring
  • Preview
  • Quoting and Multi-quoting
  • Instant Reply (alias of Quick Reply)
  • Inline-post-editing
  • New reply warning before submitting post

• Topics and Forums

  • Topic and Forum tracking per user
  • Multiple view modes for topics, which include flat, user-posts, and sticky-first
  • Topics can be rated on a scale of 0-5
  • Normal, Sticky, Announcement and Global topic types

• Polls

  • Ability to vote for multiple poll options
  • Public or private polls, public polls would show the voters along with the results
  • Auto-closing polls

• Search

  • Search forums or a particular topic
  • Search for posts by particular user
  • Limit the search to selected forums and selected time period
  • Search flood limit

• Moderation

  • Inline moderation of topics and forums
  • Approve/Disapprove/Hide/Unhide posts and topics
  • Lock/Merge/Split/Delete posts and topics
  • Post reporting and handling
  • Moderate topic ratings and polls
  • Moderation of users and approval on registration
  • Full logging of actions

• Warnings system

  • Multiple Warning options with warning points
  • Warnings auto-expire after set time period
  • Allow soft-warn (No warning points)
  • Auto-ban threshold

• Administration

  • Manage Forums, Groups and Users
  • Manage Permissions
  • Founder status
  • Forced topics
  • Ban email/IP
  • Full logging of actions
  • Mass email users or groups

• Attachments

  • Attachments in Posts and PMs
  • Handling of various filetypes

• Private Messaging

  • PMs stored as Conversations
  • Send to multiple users (CC and BCC)
  • Custom PM folders
  • Drafts for storing messages for later use
  • User Notepad for temporary storage of personal data

• No-spam

  • CAPTCHA confirmation for registrations and guest posts
  • Post flood control

• Plugins and Updates

  • Auto plugin install*
  • Auto updater*

• Advanced and Miscellaneous

  • Usage of AJAX wherever applicable making it faster
  • Advanced Caching of data and database query results for faster execution
  • Chatbox
  • Calendar
  • Detailed Statistics covering every aspect of your forum
  • Handling of Bots/Spiders
  • XHTML and CSS compliant
  • Extremely easy to integrate into your website.