PYBB

PYBB is a python forum engine writed with django framework. PYBB is acronym from PYthon Bulletin Board.

There is no much documentation now. So if you are in trouble you can:

Basic development points

  • PYBB is single django application that should be easely integreateable to existing django project
  • PYBB does not support threaded topics (may be in future...)

Features

  • Category --> Forum --> Topic --> Post
  • bbcode and markdown support
  • Code blocks are highlighted with highlightjs
  • Moderators
  • Email subscription on topic
  • Topic could be sticked or closed
  • Plain text urls are converted to active links
  • Each user has profile with individual settings: IM accounts, signature, avatar etc
  • Unread topics are marked
  • Search (the query simply redirects to google)

How to get pybb sources

Pybb sources are available from mercurial repository. You can fetch them with the command: 

    hg clone http://hg.pydev.ru/pybb pybb

Also last revisions are available in zip and gz archives.

Dependencies

  • BeautifulSoup
  • PIL
  • python-markdown
  • pytils
  • SQLAlchemy (optional) - required for punbb importer

Import from database of other forum engine

Only punbb import is supported yet. Run ./manage.py import_punbb to see the list of options.

Actual tickets

#6
Show first post on each page of topic
#9
Make crossbrowser HTML design
#10
Improve the new topic form
#17
File attachments to post
#19
private messages
#23
Language selector in profile form does not affect anything
#24
Make double pagination
#30
css bug: no space between UL and P
#31
Редактирование профиля не работает - нет auth_email_change
#32
gravatar support
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Sites that uses PYBB

If you are using pybb in your project, notify me please and I'll add you to this list.