What is SMF?
Simple Machines Forum — SMF in short — is a free, professional grade software package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes.
Its powerful custom made template engine puts you in full control of the lay-out of your message board and with our unique SSI - or Server Side Includes - function you can let your forum and your website interact with each other.
SMF is written in the popular language PHP and uses a MySQL database. It is designed to provide you with all the features you need from a bulletin board while having an absolute minimal impact on the resources of the server. SMF is the next generation of forum software - and best of all it is and will always remain completely free!
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Latest news
- Server Maintenance 12/31/09
- Just wanted to give everyone a heads up that I will
be at the datacenter tomorrow, 12/31/09 around 2PM EST to do a little server maintenance. The site will probably be down for 45 minutes or so.
- SMF 1.1.11 released
- Simple Machines announces the release of SMF 1.1.11, addressing multiple vulnerabilities found in SMF 1.1.10. Also for those still using the SMF 1.0.x branch, an upgrade to 1.0.19 was released. We ...
- SMF 2.0 Release Candidate 2 Public is out!
- Simple Machines is proud to announce the release of SMF 2.0 RC2 Public. This is the long awaited second Release Candidate for 2.0 and is one of the last steps towards 2.0 going gold. Literally hund...
- Smiley Contest: THE WINNERS!!
- Two months ago we launched a competition to look for more smiley sets. We received many applications. However many used copyrighted images, which we cannot permit. After much work we shortlisted fo...