Welcome to the Think Tank Forums Project
This is the official website for the Think Tank Forums Project, BSD licensed web forum software that uses PHP 4 and MySQL 4.1. To see our software in action, check out Think Tank Forums, our sister site. On this page, you'll find our project goals, milestones, source code, and further development information.
Project goals
The TTF Project aims to produce extremely fast and clean web forum software. The forum lacks most features offered by other software—a fact that we are extremely proud of.
Our primary aims include:
- Fast: minimize CPU time and XHTML with optimized queries.
- Clean: keep features, PHP, and XHTML unbloated.
- Data obsessive: maximize information retention.
Of course, we also care about security and an intuitive layout. Security is easy because best practices are easy to implement and track with clean code. An intuitive layout can flourish when unnecessary features are avoided and XHTML is valid.
The data obsession
TTF was designed around a tight-knit community from Billings, MT. In the past, blog software shared among this group experienced large losses in content when a user would opt to delete all of their entries. To prevent such substantial losses in information, TTF software does not offer edit and delete features. Instead, TTF offers a versioning system that allows content to be altered (with complete revision tracking) or archived (with content retrieval).
We realize that many users appreciate the option of permanently removing their contributions, and that people will be less willing to post without such options. However, the project holds that all information is valuable, and the costs of storage are minimal. Furthermore, user deletion of threads removes others' content without their permission, and user deletion of posts can make the resultant exchanges appear incoherent.
Milestones
The project is still approaching an official stable release. Development is sporadic, yet we expect a complete version 1 release in May 2008.
version 2 is still being planned. We hope to revolutionize the concept of the “web forum.”
Source code
Source is only available via Subversion, because the project hasn't yet made an official release. You can access our repository through our Google Code project page.
Contact us
You may reach us by:
- Posting in the TTF Development Forum.
- Sending a message to our Google Group.