Successful communities have discussion at their core, which is why our IP.Board forum software is the foundation of our community suite. Whatever kind of community you run, IP.Board can help you achieve your business goals by fostering vibrant discussion.

Demo: http://www.invisionpower.com/suite/demo.php
Forum Handling
Unlimited forums/subforums
Forums with unread content appear highlighted
Password-protected forums
Redirect forums that link to external URLs
Fine-grained forum permissions, including viewing, posting, replying, uploading and downloading
Drag and drop forum ordering in AdminCP
One-click 'mark forum as read'

Topic Handling
Pinned topics
Poll topics, with private or public voting
Inline topic preview, showing first and latest post snippets
Various topic sorting options, including Recently Updated, alphabetical etc. at a forum level, and as a user preference
Topic ratings

Posts & Posting
Rich post formatting with our fully-featured text editor
Automatic embedding of videos from various video services
MultiQuote for one-click quoting of posts, even from different forums
Suite Feature Shared Media pane, allowing easy reuse of previously-posted content, like photos
Suite Feature Our iconic emoticons, with the ability to easily import other emoticon packs
Advanced attachment uploader allows multiple files to be attached at once, with progress indicator
Suite Feature Tag topics, with option for open (user-defined tags) or closed (admin-defined tags) system
Tag cloud can be configured to show on the Board index
Topic prefixes (shows a specified tag as part of the topic title, e.g. "For sale")
Bad Word filter to help prevent obscenities, with per-group on/off
HTML posting support, with per-group on/off
URL filtering for posted links, on a whitelist or blacklist basis
Draft posts saved automatically in the editor
New posts made while replying appear automatically on the page

Moderation Tools
Support for super moderators (with site-wide powers), individual forum moderators and group-based moderators
New topics/posts can be queued, pending moderator approval (per-group and per-user basis)
Ability to prune topics from forums that match certain criteria, such as age
Multi-Moderation, allowing multiple moderation actions to be chained for one click access
Deleted content can be reviewed and restored in the ModeratorCP
Search by IP address to find all posts/members that match
Report Center, allowing users to report topics/posts, and moderators to review them
Members' display name history logged
Moderating Team page shows super moderators and individual forum moderators
Flag As Spammer tool, enabling instant ban of a member and deletion of all their content
Topics can be managed: merged, renamed, moved, edited, deleted, split, unapproved and pinned
Posts can be managed: edited, moved, merged, deleted and unapproved

Content Consumption & Sharing
Suite Feature Full content search, with quick search available on every screen
Suite Feature View New Content area, showing visitors topics & posts they haven't seen before
'Follow' forums and topics, and get notified when they're updated
Import RSS feeds as new topics in specified forums
Syndicate topics via RSS feeds, with customization options
Share content to social networks like Facebook & Twitter in one click
Extensive notification events & methods, including inline popup, email & mobile push.
Recent topics shown on Board index

Members
Anonymous sign in (hides the member's name and online status on the Active User list)
Custom profile fields (variety of types; can be required at registration; with access permissions)
Single sign-on support built in for Twitter, Facebook, OpenID, Live & OpenID. Other providers can be supported via a custom plugin
Status updates can be shown on the Board index
Profile customization via background images
Integrated photo cropper for perfect profile photos
User ratings
Reputation points shown on profile, with admin-defined badges at certain thresholds
Automatic member group promotion after defined post increments
Auto-profile photo syncing with Gravatar, Twitter and Facebook support
COPPA support, requiring parental permission for under-13s

Customization & Languages
Support for a different skin per forum
Suite Feature Visual Skin Editor for point-and-click color customization
Suite Feature Advanced skin editor for manual customization of templates & CSS
Suite Feature WebDAV skinning allows local editing of templates & CSS
Suite Feature Support for multiple skins, each with individual access permissions
Suite Feature Fully translatable interface & AdminCP
Suite Feature Language packs can be easily imported and exported
Suite Feature Extensive hook system allowing functionality to be extended

Promote, Optimize & Monetize
Simple ad placement system, with user group permissions
Suite Feature Friendly URL structure for humans and search engines
Suite Feature Semantic HTML markup
Support for microformats, including hCalendar, hCard, hAtom and Breadcrumbs
Suite Feature Auto-generated meta tags, including description, canonical and noindex
Search engine spiders are recognized and displayed in the Active Users list
Suite Feature Bulk mailer tool for communicating with membership via email
nofollow added to posted links
Search engine spider activity is logged and compiled for viewing

Technologies
Suite Feature Support for IPv6
Suite Feature Sphinx searching supported when available
Suite Feature Caching support: Eaccelerator, Memcache, Xcache, Wincache & APC
Suite Feature CDN support for static resources
Suite Feature Minify built in
Suite Feature Option to serve javascript libraries from Google

Download IP Board v3.3.3