ProBB is a polished, production-ready PHP platform that blends Hacker News link-centric flow with Reddit/Forum engagement features: voting, threaded comments, karma & ranks, polls, media embeds, followers & notifications, social login, live global search, bad-words filtering, multilingual support (English, Spanish, French), and both light & dark themes. Built for fast communities, niche news hubs, product forums, and private communities alike.

Live demo, docs & website

• Official product website
• Full documentation & installation guide
• Changelog
• DEMO

Why ProBB?

• Engagement-first design: Voting, followers, karma and badges encourage contributions and quality discussion.
• Feature-rich out of the box: Everything a modern community needs — from social login to polls and live notifications.
• Extensible & modular: Clean code structure makes it easy to customize and adapt to your specific requirements.
• Ship fast: Launch a moderated news hub, product forum or social community in minutes — not weeks.

Key features

• Hacker News-style post & link submissions with modern UX
• Upvote system for posts and comments
• Threaded (nested) comments with @mentions and mention notifications
• Karma points, user ranks and badges
• Followers and real-time notifications
• Poll system (single & multi-option polls inside posts)
• Direct media embeds (links, images, YouTube, Vimeo, other media)
• Global live search across posts, comments and users
• Social login (HybridAuth) + local auth support
• Configurable bad-words filter & moderation tools
• Light and Dark themes; responsive UI (Tailwind CSS)
• Multilingual ready — English, Spanish, French (translation files included)
• SEO friendly URLs, structured content and discoverability in mind

Technical snapshot

• Backend: PHP (modern, modular code) — No frameworks and external dependencies
• Frontend: Tailwind CSS (responsive, mobile-first)
• Database: MySQL / MariaDB
• Auth: Social (HybridAuth) + local auth
• i18n: English / Spanish / French (language files included)

• PHP 8.1 - 8.4
• MySQL 8.0+ or MariaDB 10.3+
• Apache, LiteSpeed, or Nginx with mod_rewrite / pretty URLs enabled
• Typical PHP extensions: PDO, mbstring, OpenSSL, cURL, json, MySQLi

1. Create a database & user.
2. Upload the product files to your webhost document root (example: public_html/ or a subdomain root). Keep folder structure intact.
3. Run the installer. In your browser go to: https://your-domain.com/install and follow the guided steps (database, admin account, site settings).
4. After installation, remove install.php for security.