MyBB Forum Hosting

MyBB Hosting is a popular open source bulletin board platform that is powerful, scalable and very easy to use regardless of your web hosting experience. As an open source software, it is a free solution with excellent plugins, support and detailed documentation.

MyBB really caters for moderators on your forum with powerful, yet easy to use tools. The inline moderation is especially useful. Moderators can select a post or thread and select from a drop down menu on how to handle said field i.e. hide, lock, delete – all at the click of a button.

Moderators have the power to access posts that have been reported, access moderation history, ban users, validate IP addresses should a certain member/visitor abuse the forum guidelines – plus much more. This can be invaluable support in maintaining the successful running of your bulletin board without eating away into just the administrators time!

The control panel for MyBB is incredibly intuitive and designed with beginners and advanced users in mind. Once logged into the dashboard area, administrators have quick access to what is important in running and maintaining a forum – managing content posted by members, monitoring permissions and scheduling either manual or automated tasks such as general housekeeping of your site.

MyBB is separated into six sections: the dashboard area, Configuration, Forum and Post management, Users and Groups, Templates and Style and finally, Tools and Maintenance. As sections are clearly labelled, it is very easy to navigate to the area you require with ease.

With regards to styling, MyBB features an internal skinning method that allows for complete customisation of the bulletin boards appearance. This can be achieved through editing CSS yourself, hiring a web designer for a custom template, or even scout through the active communities for user based templates.

Visitors can style the way in which they view posts in a similar way to administrators and moderators. This particular feature can be attractive to your site visitors as they are able to shape the appearance of the discussions they are involved in, as well as edit their posts such as formatting the text.