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This is the right place to compare the features of all those forum tools (aka. bulletin board systems) you heard of. ForumMatrix is here to help you decide which forum is the best for your needs.

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Beehive Forum  Beehive is a Free and Open Source forum system. The key feature which sets Beehive apart is its user-friendly split-pane view, showing the thread list on the left and messages on the right.

Beehive also supports many other unique user-centric features: targetted posts to users and/or other posts; HTML posting; a user relationship system; powerful forum wide and per-user word filter (supports regex); flexible polling allowing public & private polls, grouped answers, and different result formats; plus much more.