Discussions - The forum extension for your Joomla! website

Discussions for Joomla!

General

Discussions is a Joomla 2.5 (and J1.7) and Joomla! 1.5 forum extension. It's a forum that offers a basic feature set + some cool stuff that you might have looked for.

Current version is 1.5. It's available for FREE. Just go to the download area and check it out :-)

Requirements: PHP 5.2 or higher

Features

Private Messages built-in (new in 1.5)
User profile with avatar, signature, city, country, Facebook, Twitter and more
Moderators, Moderator functions (delete, lock, move, sticky posts)
SEO settings. Overwrite standard settings for title, description and keywords
Image upload (show as browser popup, Slimbox, RokBox or YOOeffects)
AEC support. Configure which AEC plans are allowed to upload images
Flickr images embedded in posts(jump to flickr or view in Slimbox)
YouTube videos embedded in posts
Language files for frontend and backend. English and German included.
Configurable date and time format (new in 1.1)
Rookie mode. Configure how many posts of a new registered user will be moderated
Send email to Moderators if a moderated user or rookie writes a post
Boxes for social media code (e.g. Twitter, Facebook, Flattr, ...) below thread title
HTML boxes at the top and bottom of the pages e.g. for banner code
Places for forum specific banners (top and bottom)
Private forums. Only visible for moderators
Support for Primezilla Private Messaging.

and more...

Changelog Discussions 1.5

Joomla! 2.5 only!
Private Messages

and some minor bug fixes.

Changelog Discussions 1.4

Joomla! 1.7 version available. It's also been tested on Joomla! 2.5 beta! Download the right component and module zipfile for your system
Added basic ACL support (Configure/Access component) (J1.7)
Select to display username or name in the frontend
Solved a backend name conflict with other extensions
Replies now have a h4 tag
Login row ("Please login or register") now optional
Added Google+ field in user profile
Code for social media buttons and HTML boxes now have an own dashboard tab
Added index.html to all directories to make it JED compliant

and some minor bug fixes.

Changelog Discussions 1.3

Joomla! 1.6 version available! Download the right component and module zipfile for your system
RSS Feed for new threads in all forums
RSS Feed for new threads in a specific forum
SEO improvement for thread view. The Meta description is taken from the post (first 160 chars)
SEO improvement for thread view. The Meta keywords are taken from forum the thread belongs to
Backend improvement for user tab. Added signature field
Backend improvement for post tab. Added listbox for post type (discussion, question, important)

and some minor bug fixes.

Changelog Discussions 1.2

Language files for backend (english and german included)
YouTube tag. Now it's possible to embed YouTube videos in forum posts
YOOeffects support for image display
Forum specific banner places. Configurable in Discussions backend forum tab
SEO improvements for index page. Meta tags title, description and keywords configurable in language file
SEO improvements for forum page. Meta tags title, description and keywords configurable in Discussions backend forum tab
Bug fix: Search plugin now works with all languages and SEF and standard URLs

and some minor bug fixes.