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A forum is a great way to build your own community. We highlight a few best practices on how to bind users and boosting engagement in your forum.

In the forums for reporting bugs as well as in the suggestions section we use labels, in this article we explain their meaning.

Starting off with the presentation of Burning Board 4.0, we decided to focus on videos describing any upcoming changes and improvements.
The first video contains a quick preview of the major changes in Burning Board 4.0, future videos will grant a further insight into each feature.

The success story of forums and online communities has been ongoing for over 20 years. From niche topics to a broad discussion platform, forums increase your website traffic or help you organize a project better.

WoltLab Suite 3 enters the release candidate phase next and we will no longer add features, but instead focus on stability only. This allows us to finally deliver you the definite list of improvements and new features that ship with the upcoming WoltLab Suite 3.

In this article you will find a list of all new features and improvements in WoltLab Suite 3.1.

In this article you will find a list of all new features and improvements in WoltLab Suite 5.2.

While spammers are always looking for new ways to bypass existing protection measures, implementing these suggestions will help prevent spam on your forum.

Since May 2018, the EU regulation on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been in force. The GDPR lays down rules for the handling of personal data (such as e-mail or IP addresses) throughout the EU and therefore also applies when operating a forum. We explain what there is to consider.

We explain which requirements have to be met and what to consider when selling plugins in the WoltLab plugin-store.

It's been about half a year since we shared our plans and ideas with you, and we've achieved a whole lot during this period.

The fifth and final part of our spotlight series for WoltLab Suite 5.2 highlights two new major updates for developers, form builder and improvements and new features for our integrated developer tools.

We would like to interrupt this series to present changes that are significant for developers of plugins and apps. This part is exclusively for developers, we will cover further innovations for administrators and users in the upcoming part 4.

Quick preview of Burning Board 4.0's conversations.

Quick preview of the new user profile of Burning Board 4.0.

Most owners run their forums with passion and pay for everything that is required to keep it up, but as a community grows one may have to spend a lot of money to maintain it. Burning Board 4.1 offers you a built-in tool to manage ads from third parties (e.g. Google AdSense), enabling you to monetize your community and to earn the money you need to keep it running.

We have shown a lot of new features in our upcoming version Burning Board 4.1 in the previous threads and we feel that it is time to take a look at the smaller improvements.

Following our principle that there is always room for improvements, we have taken a lot of effort to improve the general usability and better interaction with content. Since the release of Burning Board 4.0 we have received a lot of great suggestions and it's time to show them in action.

We have received a lot of feedback regarding the anti-spam measures, moderation system and access to the comment system for guests. We want to introduce some handy changes with Burning Board 4.1 which aim to improve the current experience and to properly handling guests and abusive members.

User Groups provide forum administrators the ability to manage permissions for users even in large communities and to ease management we already provide an official plugin to set up moderated user groups.

During development of a new release we usually take a look at every tiny piece of the software and evaluate it's current state. We're overall fine with the conversation system, it serves it purpose and provides a great usability, yet there is always room for small improvements.