Ruboard is easy to use, simple, configurable web board - a place where people can discuss things interactively usign their browsers.

Although initially based on Matthew Wright's WWWBoard, Ruboard has been completely rewritten to improve stability, configurability and ease of use.

The author of Ruboard is Andrew Maltsev, <am@amsoft.ru>; copyright © 1998-1999.

Most significant features of Ruboard are:

• Stability -- file locking to prevent article and index destruction.
• Compatibility with WWWBoard. Ruboard may be used to control WWWBoard forums without any conversion (I had not tried this, but no changes were done to file formats).
• Ruboard is simple to install and use.
• User registration and password protection options.
• Ability to post messages, images and url's is controllable through passwords. Users may apply for registration and there are administration mechanisms to maintain registered users base.
• IP addresses may be blocked if desired.
• Multiple languages are supported (Russian and English for now).
• The size of board (number of entries on main page) is controllable.
• Support for multible boards from one program.
• A lot of visual enhancements and configuration options (all colors, fonts, background images and so on may be set individually for each forum).
• Separate posting page/mode made so posters do not have to scroll to bottom of long page
• Can add advertisement on every generated page

Ruboard is tested in FreeBSD and Linux, with Perl 4 and 5 (text formatter and banned words may not work correctly in non-english languages with perl4). It does not depend on anything valuable form the system, so I think it will run on most of Unix-like systems with no changes at all.

If you have any suggestions, enhancements (especially if you have added another language) please send me the patch or patched version.