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Administrators get truly powerful intuitive controls.

Community managers finally have a system that can be mastered without a PhD.

Inform your community with dismissable messages.

Managers can create optionally dismissable messages that appear anywhere throughout the site.

Inform your community with dismissable messages.
User management.

Quickly find and manage members and their abilities in the user management section of the dashboard.

User management.
Automatic spam & flood control.

Readymade flood control settings to prevent users from filling the community with garbage content. Spam control at every level from registration through posting with deep spam service integrations like StopForumSpam and Akismet. Users are automatically punished for negative contributions.

Automatic spam & flood control.
Roles & permissions.

Control fine-grained, role-based permissions that can be assigned on a per-discussion-category basis. Assign multiple roles to individual users.

Roles & permissions.
You say forum, we say category.

Optionally use discussion categories to help users find their areas of interest. You decide how categories and discussions are presented to the users and who gets to see what. Categories can be infinitely nested in a simple drag/drop interface.

You say forum, we say category.
Total privacy.

Make your entire community member-only, or just make specific categories available to specific groups of users. You choose how much of your community is visible to the world: all, some, or none.

Total privacy.
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