Simple Machines Forum
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| Developer(s) | Simple Machines |
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| Stable release | 2.0.14 (May 14, 2017) |
| Preview release | 2.1 Beta 3 (June 1, 2017) |
| Repository | github |
| Development status | Active |
| Written in | PHP |
| Type | Internet forum |
| License | Open Source
SMF 2: 3-clause BSD License SMF 1: Simple Machines License |
| Website | www |
Simple Machines Forum software, or SMF software, is an open source, Internet forum, message-board program developed by Simple Machines. The name reflects the communities' initial goal of providing a program that could be operated by novice programmers and require minimal server resources. Simple Machines won forum-software.org best free forum software award in 2009.
Simple Machines Forum (SMF) is an open-source discussion board software project, which consists of volunteers participating in various operating functions including development, customization, documentation, localization/translation, user support, and marketing. The project is owned by a non-profit organization, named "Simple Machines". Liroy van Hoewijk ("CoreISP") is President and CEO of the Simple Machines organization, "Illori" is the project manager of SMF. Colin Schoen is SMF's lead software developer.
Simple Machines is organized and operates as a not-for-profit membership corporation organized under Nevada law. To be eligible for membership, a person or entity must be nominated by a current member of the corporation and must complete a written or electronic membership application and approved by the Board of Directors. The organization has not elected to apply for a federal tax exemption pursuant to Section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code, however, its bylaws prohibit engaging directly or indirectly in any activity which would disqualify for a 501(c)3 status in the future.
The organization is funded by private donations, advertisements on their own website, and income from "charter memberships".
General user support User support is principally provided via the SMF Internet forum / message-board developers and users discuss troubleshooting, optimization and customization of SMF software. Most support is provided by SMF's support team. However, there is a special closed helpdesk for Charter Members.
Charter Members The Charter Membership was designed to reward users who donate to Simple Machines. The current reward includes access to a private board, access to a helpdesk for advanced support, new beta versions and early releases of SMF and a special badge on the community. As of January 1, 2015, the minimum donation to get this Charter Membership was $50 USD. The advanced support also includes help with installation and upgrades of SMF by the Simple Machines Forum team.
SMF is available in 39 languages in UTF-8 and non-UTF-8 encodings. There are more than 20 mega-forums, ranging in size from 1,000,000 to 80,000,000 posts, operating on this platform.
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