PunBB

PunBB (PunBulletinBoard) is a lightweight PHP-based internet discussion board system. It is released under the GNU General Public License. The project's primary goal is to be a faster, smaller and less graphic alternative to discussion boards such as phpBB, Invision Power Board or vBulletin. Many open-source and commercial projects' discussion boards use PunBB. Until September 2011, Facebook's Developers were using Facebook Developer's Forum for discussions and bug reports, which was powered by PunBB.

PunBB was originally designed to output standard XHTML, and with speed and simplicity in mind. Features such as private messaging, polls and file attachments were not originally implemented. However, they have since been released as third-party modifications. PunBB supports extensions since version 1.3.

History

PunBB was founded by Rickard Andersson as a personal project to create an alternative to either over-featured or too graphic discussion boards. In August 2003, version 1.0 was released under the GNU General Public License. The developer released version 1.2 in January 2005 and immediately began work on version 1.3.