November 29, 2006; 08:06 AM
BoonEx Community Software Experts releases a new, open source, AJAX
powered integratable forum software. Orca – Interactive Forum Script is
the first script that allows you to build a self-ruling forum,
moderated by the community.
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The increasing number and rapid
growth of communities requires products that are able to support large
communities, meet their needs and spare the webmasters loads of work
saving as much time as possible. BoonEx considered this trend while
developing the Orca – Interactive Forum Script.
“Orca 1.0 is
the first Interactive forum software for at least four reasons,” says
BoonEx Ltd. General director Andrey Sivtsov. “First, it empowers the
forum community to self moderation and taking an active part in forum
life. Second, it uses AJAX, which simplifies the interaction. Third, it
interacts with any other type of software and can be easily integrated,
and finally, being a GPL product, Orca encourages webmasters to
interact in terms of its development.”
The significant
breakthrough in the forum software market is a new Self-Ruling concept
developed in Orca. Orca relieves webmasters from everyday moderation
duties, laying most of these on the members of the forum community.
Members can now vote out abusive or spam containing posts with the
majority of votes, or fold an unwanted post moving it out of their
view. AJAX technologies make this procedure fast and simple that takes
only one click. Every member is given one vote only.
“Now
webmasters can utilize 1, 2, 15 or 150 thousand people, since they can
employ the entire forum community to do the least liked work - for
free. While webmasters spend more time on constant improvement, forum
members will enjoy the benefits of self-moderation. This is something
that only Orca can do right now,” comments Artur Zotov, BoonEx Ltd.
Marketing Director.
AJAX is a web development technique for
creating interactive Web applications. The intent is to make web pages
feel more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the
server behind the scenes, so that the entire web page does not have to
be reloaded each time the user makes a change. This is meant to
increase the web page's interactivity, speed, and usability.
Orca
1.0 is a forum with a 100% AJAX-based interface without the main AJAX
problems. It is search-engine friendly, has a working 'Back' button,
permalinks, and Bookmarkable pages.
Unlike Invision Board,
Orca is 100% AJAX powered script. Just like phpBB it is an Open Source
software, and with the newly offered self-moderation feature, Orca
presents itself as a smart alternative to VBulletin's complicated
moderation system.
About BoonEx Ltd.
BoonEx Ltd., community
software experts, was founded on the 15th of December 2004. Currently,
the BoonEx Ltd. runs several commercial websites and serves customers
from all over the world with a staff of 50 full-time employees who have
great professional backgrounds, education and experience.