Simple Forum is a responsive forum and community forum software that can be used to keep in touch with a group of people or to power your entire website.

Characteristics

Simple Forum has 8+ color styles, private messages, custom topic fields, and many other features that can help you create a unique forum in minutes for your communities and support site. Redesigned for even greater usability. It is the simplest yet most powerful way to enable discussion on your site. No other bulletin board software offers a greater complement of features while maintaining efficiency and ease of use.

1. Simple and responsive design
2. Settings page to easily manage your forum
3. 8+ color styles
4. Forum Search Option
5. Email Template Files
6. Links to social profiles
7. Social authentication to allow user to log in with Facebook, Google and 8 others
8. Private messages
9. Pages and categories
10. Custom Discussion Fields
11. User and badges
12. Option to be notified for responses
13. User avatar to get user mini profile
14. User Registration and Password Reset Options
15. 4 advertising spaces
16. Sticky threads
17. 3 forum modes
    • Public: General forum mode, in this mode the forum will be open to the public to view public topics
    • Private: Only registered member will have access to the forum
    • Maintenance: Forum unavailable to mods and members
18. 3 discussion options (who can see)
    • Everyone: All public (not private), members and everyone else can see the topic
    • Members: Only registered members can view this topic.
    • Admins, mods and me: creator, moderators and admins can see the topic
19. 3 editors
    • Writer: Commercial HTML Editor
    • SimpleDME: Markdown Editor
    • SCEditor: BBCode Editor
20. 3 user roles
    • Admin: Administrators can perform any task on the forum, from topic to settings
    • Moderator: Moderators can perform all tasks as administrators except users, settings, and deletion rights
    • Member: Forum member can create topics, add replies.
21. Forum statistics with
    • Total discussion
    • Total responses
    • Total members (users including admins and mods)
22. Today’s Events
    • Logins: the list of logged in users
    • Birthdays: List of users who are celebrating birthdays