Welcome to the Think Tank Forums Project
This is the official website for the Think Tank Forums (TTF) Project, BSD licensed web forum software that uses PHP and MySQL. 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 of which we are extremely proud.
Our primary aims include:
- Fast: use optimized MySQL queries and proper PHP.
- Clean: keep the feature set and the source 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 source. An intuitive layout can flourish when unnecessary features are avoided and XHTML is valid.
The data obsession
To prevent losses of information, TTF software does not offer traditional edit and delete features. Instead, TTF offers a versioning system that allows content to be revised or archived, both with full 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.
Source code
Source is only available via Subversion, because the project hasn't yet made an official release. You may access our repository here.
More information
You may learn more by visiting our Google Code project page.