So I coded a forum...

I was bored today so I decided to whip up a basic forum system.

Features:

1. Register/Login
2. User Groups (Currently Admin, Mod and Member)
3. Administration Panel (Add/Manage Categories and Forums, Users. Deletion coming soon)

To do:

1. Password Recovery
2. Anti spam measures (probably going to use akismet or stopforumspam)
3. Stats (Not too keen on this)
4. User profiles/editing
5. Moderation tools

Screenshots! (Because I don't have a proper domain name. Yet.)
Backend:
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Frontend:
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Thoughts? Should I keep on working on it?

That looks pretty awesome for a days work @vortex you should certainly carry on

Any thoughts for a name?

Then I shall continue working on it. as for the name, I'm probably going to use the name joltboard. :] thanks for the kind words

Looks good for only been worked on for a day. Has great potential. Just need to slap some CSS into that bitch and make it look sexy

Looks great thus far.

Not easy task is it I know I literally built (coded) my community from just a idea.

You did this in one day? Impressive.

You should tell us how you did it

I really like this. There is obviously a long way to go with this to make it a good system for users. But with the hard work that you have put in within a one day time period, after years of development this could be a really big and good script. Good luck!

DarkGizmo: I worked on the ACP before the frontend, hence the lack of styling. Heh. I kinda like the style of the frontend though.
SD&D Auctions: You coded that whole site in your signature from scratch? I don't think I have the willpower (or motivation!) to do such a thing. You sir, have my respect.
Andrew: I just felt bored, opened up DW, and coded away. And somehow ended up with what you see. lol.
GAF: Thank you, I would probably need some help along the way though. Pretty sure the code could be made better.

Once again, thank you for the kind words. Now I have the motivation. The reason I take so long to reply is because I live in a different timezone from all of you (well, mostly. I think) So when you guys are active, I am asleep. lol.

Also, I cannot post links here. Haha.

The backend looks easy to navigate but the forum interface itself is kinda lacking.

I understand. I'm not much of a designer (as you can tell) I'm more of a programmer.

You should find a designer to hire

Maybe when I release the forum for usage, I'm currently setting it up as a support forum for my CMS which I am about to release.

Wow, awesome, keep working with it

Good to know that you're making your forum more strong by doing these changes here. Brilliant work and i am very inspire.

I don't have permission to view the screenshots?? Anyway I did start coding a forum system a few months ago and it's probably about 20% done, lol. I lost motivation and now I'm working on other projects.

That's impressive

You are skille programmer to do it this fast.

Very awesome keep working onit seems like its coming along very will.

Unfortunately, no. Its sitting on my hard drive. I might just pass it on to someone else if they want it. The code is not the cleanest though. Real life sucks. ):