What is SMF?
Simple Machines Forum — SMF in short — is a free, professional grade software package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes.
Its powerful custom made template engine puts you in full control of the lay-out of your message board and with our unique SSI - or Server Side Includes - function you can let your forum and your website interact with each other.
SMF is written in the popular language PHP and uses a MySQL database. It is designed to provide you with all the features you need from a bulletin board while having an absolute minimal impact on the resources of the server. SMF is the next generation of forum software - and best of all it is and will always remain completely free!
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Latest news
- SMF 2.0 Release Candidate 2 Public is out!
- Simple Machines is proud to announce the release of SMF 2.0 RC2 Public. This is the long awaited second Release Candidate for 2.0 and is one of the last steps towards 2.0 going gold. Literally hund...
- Smiley Contest: THE WINNERS!!
- Two months ago we launched a competition to look for more smiley sets. We received many applications. However many used copyrighted images, which we cannot permit. After much work we shortlisted fo...
- SMF 2.0 Release Candidate 2 is out for Charter Members!
- Simple Machines is proud to announce the immediate release of SMF 2.0 RC2 to Charter Members. This is the long awaited Second Release Candidate for 2.0 and is one of the last steps towards 2.0 goin...
- Simple Machines Smiley Contest
- Simple Machines would like to announce the opening of our first Smiley Contest, to give our community members the challenge to create some new and exciting smileys.
We are looking to introd...