SMF

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Simple Machines Forum (abbreviated as SMF) is a freeware Internet forum script developed by the Simple Machines development team. The script is written in PHP, uses a MySQL database backend and is comparable to other forum software.

1 History
2 Support
3 See also
4 External links

History

SMF was created to replace the forum software YaBB SE, which at the time was gaining a bad reputation because of problems with its Perl based equivalent and similarly named software YaBB.

YaBB was known to cause resource allocation problems and was resource heavy on many systems, in its earlier versions. YaBB SE was written as a rough PHP port of YaBB, but tended to have many of the same resource and even security problems.

SMF started as a small project of one of the YaBB SE developers, and its main intent was to add more advanced templating to YaBB SE. The project then slowly grew to address common feature requests, efficiency problems, and security concerns. A rehaul of YaBB SE had been in development for several years, but was superseded by this then competing project. Popular interest in the new YaBB SE fork sparked a complete rewrite of the code, with security and performance in mind. This eventually became today's Simple Machines Forum.

Support

The SMF support staff and users provide free support on the offical community forums. Their duties include helping forum owners with troubleshooting and optimization.