YaBB Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
YaBB (Yet another Bulletin Board) is a free open source message board and instant messaging system written in Perl. YaBB is the world's first and most popular open source perl forum software. YaBB doesn't use a 3rd party database, but its own flat file storage system. Modifications (Boardmod) can be used to add new features to the forum.
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At first he decided to make a threaded board, but that style was losing popularity; so he rewrote it into a non-threaded board, as it is now. He also wanted to make it a commercial script, but then realized this wouldn't be a solution for the poor webmaster community, including himself. "OK," he thought, "We'll make it open source then." Soon Zef found Andy Tomaka, an experienced UBB hacker, and Matt Mecham, the creator of iB (Ikonboard) and now the lead of the Invision Power Board. Zef added YaBB to the CGI-Resource Index and some other major CGI indexes, where it remains today as the #1 Perl program.
The popularity slowly grew and grew, and some high traffic sites started to use YaBB. This is when the developers discovered the first release was by far not ready to be used on high traffic sites. Together, with a new developer, Peter Crouch, the entire script was rewritten. Some others joined the crew, including Jeff Lewis, now a developer of Simple Machines Forum (formerly YaBB SE), who began as the *finance man*. It took a few weeks before the new version was released. A little after Jeff joined Zef's side, Christian Land joined the development team to improve YaBB's stability and features. Soon after, Corey Chapman volunteered his "modded" code as the base for YaBB 1 Final. After this release, he took on his own project, known as YaBB 1 Gold (with the help of the great NewsPro hacker, Darya Misse) to fix the buggy YaBB 1 Final.
By this time, Zef had moved onto other projects. But his legacy would live on forever. Jeff Lewis was named the new Project Leader of YaBB. He helped YaBB grow throughout the YaBB 1 Gold phases, which became an official release of YaBB. But Jeff too had decided to move onto bigger things and helped another developer, Joseph Fung, start a php-clone of YaBB named YaBB SE ("Splinter Edition"). Corey was named the next successor of the YaBB Project Leader position.
While UBB.classic has grown into a $300 product, and several other fancy Perl and PHP boards have sprung up (like Ikonboard, vBulletin, UBB.threads, BlazeBoard, Invision Power Board, and phpBB), YaBB has continued to develop as completely open source, increasing its popularity and stability. Today it is sponsored by Xnull Internet Media, Inc. in both web design, web hosting, and development. Although you may see Zef online at the YaBB Community here from time to time, he has since left the YaBB project as a developer to work on another BBS system. YaBB has grown into one of the favorite forum systems for people to "hack" (change the code) and create ports to their own liking!Releases
Stable: 1 Gold - SP 1.3.2
Development: SP 2 Beta 6
Development: YaBB2 (no public release yet)Features
The following is a summary of some of YaBB 1 Gold - SP 1.1's features. Note that this is not a complete list.
Forum Index
Topic Index
Topic Display
Post Page
Other Pages
Other Features
History
In July of 2000, Zef Hemel needed a bulletin board script. And so he started searching; the best were UBB (Ultimate Bulletin Board) at $199 and UB (UltraBoard) which was free. He chose to use the now discontinued UB. However, Zef soon needed more features, and he wanted to add his own features too. As an experienced webmaster, Zef knew there was only one solution: to write his own BBS script!