Features

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General

• Simple, responsive, user-friendly interface
• Easily customizable, built-in add-on manager
• Slim, modern look and extensible theme system
• Security, moderation, anti-spam functionality

Core Features (there are a bunch)

ElkArte is designed to provide you with all the features you need for a full featured community forum and website right out of the box. Just some of our features:

• @Mentioning users including notifications
• Likes for posts and topics
• Drafts, including auto save
• OpenID 2.0 (BC Math must be available)
• Two built in modern, responsive themes
• Integrated video embedding for youtube, vimeo and dailymotion
• Drag and drop ordering in the administration interface
• Drag and drop file attachments
• Improved Anti Spam measures
• Improved password hashing using industry standards
• Bad Behaviour built in
• Automatic combining and minifying of JavaScript and CSS
• Posting by Email
• Ajax previews and responses throughout the user interface
• Utilizes jQuery and Font Awesome
• ...and much more!

For developers and designers

• Easier to customize, through the addition of mechanisms meant for extensibility
• Theme system and default theme friendly as base for custom theming.

Open formats support

• ElkArte provides web feeds in RSS, RSS2, Atom, Webslices, and RDF formats.
• To subscribe to a feed, you can use your browser's built-in support. Alternatively, point your news reader or application to an URL of the form http://forum_url/index.php?action=.xml;type=rss.