Comprehensive list of Community features ***

1. Architecture
2. Community Management
   Security
   Content Management
   User Management
   Community Promotion
   Community Statistics
   
3. Community Customization
4. Registered User Experience

Architecture

• ezboard is web based and fully hosted -- no hardware and no downloading required
• Our simple registration process will have you up and running in minutes
• Our service is reliable, with a history of over 99% uptime
• Our highly scalable technology allows your community to grow without fear of system limitations
• All releases and updates are automatic
• New features are released regularly
• Our Control Center allows for easy and powerful community management
• Boards are HTML, Javascript and CSS compatible

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Community Management

Security

• Membership by Approval gives Administrators complete control over who is allowed to read and post in their community
• Weekly backups and free restores protect your board
• Administrators can create Invisible Forums - viewable only to allowed members
• Communities can be made public (searchable) or private
• Administrators can require different levels of registration as a condition of community participation - from no registration to posting for registered users only.
• Communities as well as individual forums can be password protected to keep prying eyes out
• Post Flood Safety Check and Spam Blocker protect your board from destructive excessive posting
• Administrators can view poster IP addresses for security purposes

Content Management

• Administrators can Screen all posts before they are made public on the board
• Make multiple copies of a topic with Copy Topic
• Leave a Shadow (or placeholder) of any moved topic in its original forum
• Sticky Topic keeps important information at the top of the board
• Hot Topic identifies and emphasizes topics that users have found interesting
• Administrators can enable an optional profanity filter with the ability to add additional words
• Administrators can use Pruning to mass delete topics older than a specified date
• Administrators and Moderators can delete, move, and close multiple topics with Bulk Topic Commands
• Board creators can assign an unlimited number of administrators and moderators per community
• Forum-specific moderators can be assigned
• Page number links are provided in topic listings for easy access to large multi-page threads
• Administrators can change posting and editing levels on a forum-specific basis
• Categorization of forums allows for clean and clear look

User Management

• User Management interface allows administrators to assign user levels, individual custom titles, and user rankings based on the number of posts.
• Administrators can ban users based on user name, email address and IP address
• Administrators can allow or restrict use of custom signatures, personal icons, personal photos, HTML, emoticons and posticons in posts

Community Promotion

• Make your community public and searchable by category and keyword with Forum Find
• Publicize your community by sending promotional emails
• Stay in contact with your users by using the Email Users utility
• Users can invite friends by sending emails that direct them to the community
• Cross-promote with other communities by creating an ezboard ring

Community Statistics

• Community Profile & Active Members List
• Statistics on page views and posts are available for the most recent 90 days in the Control Center
• Administrator log records all board level actions performed, including the time/date, user name and IP address

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Community Customization Features

• Forum Styles (ezSkins), including the ezboard classic view
• Unlimited customizable emoticons-- let your creativity shine
• Trade Theme Definition Files to easily change the entire look and feel of your board
• Create a customized logout page
• Choose between English, Spanish, German or French as the base language for your board
• Community Chest allows administrators to promote and to accept donations for a Gold Community
• Customizable Posticons
• Who's Online allows you to view all users visiting your board
• Each forum can be customized to have its own look and feel
• Advanced customization options allow you to tailor your board using HTML, Javascript and CSS
• Choose from various forum "format" styles (different ways of viewing messages)
• Mimic feature allows administrators to mimic colors, images and security from one forum to another
• Alternate background color/image in your forums listing area
• Sort Topics chronologically or by the last topic touched
• Post a Poll and let your users vote on issues

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Registered User Experience

• Choose your own user name, password and secret question/answer when you register
• Master Account allows you to share your ezSupporter benefits with up to 4 other accounts
• Send and receive messages to and from fellow ezboard users with your web-based ezInbox
• Anonymous on Who's Online enables you to visit boards without displaying your user name
• High Security option for user accounts helps prevent hacking
• You can modify your Public Profile at any time
• You can include a custom signature with graphics, various font styles, etc., at the bottom of every post
• You can include a personal photo and icon with every post
• You can customize your own board viewing by:
  
  -Set post area width and number of posts per page
  -Mark topics and messages as read or unread
  -Option to view only new messages
  -Option to receive private emails from other users
• You can receive email notification for replies to topics

***Highlight in this color indicates Gold Community only features.

***Highlight in this color indicates ezSupporter only features.