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Simple Machines Forum 297
Simple Machines Forum
Developer(s)
Stable release
Preview
release
Screenshot of a fresh SMF installation
Written in PHP
The SMF Team [1]
Type Forum software
License
1.1.11 [2] (December 1, 2009) [ +/− [2]
]
2.0 RC3 [3] (March 8, 2010) [ +/− [3]
]
Simple Machines License [4]
Website http:/ / www. simplemachines. org/
Simple Machines Forum (abbreviated as SMF) is a freeware Internet forum application. The software is written in
PHP and uses a MySQL database backend, although multi-database support is being developed for version 2.0. SMF
is developed by the Simple Machines development team. [5]
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 ancestor software YaBB. At the time, YaBB was attributed to causing resource
allocation problems on many systems. YaBB SE was written as a rough PHP port of YaBB, and had many of the
same resource and security problems of the older YaBB versions. [6] Joseph Fung and Jeff Lewis of Lewis Media Inc.
[7] , the owners of YaBB SE and the original owners of SMF, made the decision to convert to a new brand and name.
SMF started as a small project by username "[Unknown]" (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was superseded by this then competing project.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. [8] [9] . The first SMF release was SMF 1.0 Beta 1a, released on 30 September 2003 to Charter Members
only [10] .
On the 23rd of October 2006, Simple Machines LLC was registered in the state of Arizona, and the transfer of
copyrights from Lewis Media to Simple Machines LLC was completed on the 24th of November 2006 during a
three-day retreat in Tucson, AZ. This was done for the "[solidification of] the team’s commitment to continuously
providing free software, without the perceived risks of corporate influence" [11]