New Features Forum Members Will Appreciate:

New search capabilities multiple filter and criteria options. 

Points and rewards system.

Improved forum navigation with AJAX Printer friendly option for topics.

Email topic to a friend.

Tag topics with keywords.

Who’s Online with up to the minute accuracy.

Improved upload capabilities for topic attachments.

Use Quick Reply to quote multiple replies from multiple pages.

Quickly jump to first unread post or the last post of a topic.

Option to hide avatars and signatures of other users.

Improved topic status capabilities.

Improved method for creating polls.

Improved support for mobile devices.

Email notifications are sent as plaintext and html.

CAPTCHA support to prevent spam from anonymous users.

Automatically detect URLs in posts and convert to links.

Automatically reduce the size of extra long links.

Numerous performance improvements.

New Features Moderators and Administrators Will Appreciate:

100% New AJAX based Control Panel.

Intuitive, compact and easy to navigate.

Dashboard with snapshot of all forum activity.

Tooltips for each setting and option.

New Options in Main Settings:

Flood interval to reduce duplicate posts or posts from bots. 

Edit interval to allow a user to edit their post within set period of time.

Mail Queue option for high volume sites.*

Delete behavior option to allow to control whether a post is deleted or moved to a recycle bin forum.

Community Settings

Profile Type - Specify a profile type as Disabled, Basic or Advanced The advanced option allows for easy integration with Active Profile.

Private Messaging – Add private messaging without modifying templates. Specify a page that contains either our Active Messaging or Private Messages from Ventrian.

Points System – Enable the points system and set point values to forum related activities.

New Options for Forum Management:

Folder tree style display for Groups and Forums with drag and drop capabilities.

Compact security grid which allows you to add security options for a specific role or user.

 Additional security options for moderator specific tasks.

Additional templates for topic creation form, reply creation form and profile display.

Feature Settings

Moderation

Specify a default trust setting (trusted or not trusted) for the moderated forum.

Specify an auto trust level so that a user is no longer moderated after a specified number of posts. 

Select email templates for moderator notification, approved, rejected, moved and delete Enable or Disable Tags

Mail Connector*

Choose a moderation level that will override the forum moderation setting. Allows you to moderate only topics from email.

Specify an End of Message (EOM) tag that users can enter to prevent other email content from appearing in reply.

Option to make sure all replies include the EOM tag.

Option to remove HTML from all email posts.

Auto Subscriptions*

Select roles which will automatically receive email notifications for all posts to forum.

Option to only send new topic notifications instead of topics and replies.

New Options for Templates

Ability to delete templates.

Ability to create HTML and Plain Text versions for email templates.

Tags: Create, edit and delete tags.

New features site designers will appreciate:

Template support for topic and reply creation form.

Additional token sections for greater control of content areas. 

All application generated HTML is XHTML compliant. All other HTML is managed in templates.

Additional tokens for more css options when displaying repeating content.

All application generated design elements formatted using css classes – no hard coded styles.

*Requires Active Forums Enterprise

Basic Features:
Unlimited Forum Groups
Unlimited Forums
Written specifically for DotNetNuke - Complete integration without extra overhead.
Expanded user profile - Allows your visitors to share information about themselves.
Built in email sending to protect email addresses - No need to worry about spam spiders picking up your users email addresses.
Manage look and feel with CSS - Customize the look and feel for the forums for each portal.
Easy to install Private Assembly - No web.config or DNN core changes
Create moderated or open forums
Users can subscribe to topics and forums - Users will be sent an email with details of the post.
Supports SQL Server - Optimized for SQL Server using Stored Procedures.
Security sensitive search capabilities -
Rank user based upon number of posts - Reward and encourage forum members for participation
Display user on-line status
Users can upload or link to Avatars - Avatars allow forum members to add their own sense of personalization to each post they make.
Three input options for posts - Plain Text, ActiveEditor, DNN HTML Editor Provider
Customizable forum statistics display
Option to display User's Online List.
Search Engine Optimized

User Interface Features:
Expand/Collapse Forum Groups
Expanded Last Post Column to offer more information
Read/Un-read tracking
Sort Topics and Replies by Subject, Replies, Views and Last Post
Custom displays for quick access to "Unanswered", "Not Read" and "My Forum" topics.
Integrated "Who's Online"
Forum Statistics are completely customizable using replacement Tokens.
Time Zone selection for proper Date/Time display

Flexibility:
Forum Settings can be managed at the group or forum level with the option for the forum to inherit the settings.
Individual settings for each forum - Customize each forum to meet your specific needs.
Enable or disable HTML formatted text. 
Enable or disable uploading attachments or images.
Close a forum temporarily.
Choose how to display a user name - User Name, First Name, Full Name
Option to customize information that appears next to each post using custom tags.
Option to disable user profiles
Templates to allow you to control how post information and emails are displayed
User level settings include: Enable/Disable Signature, Enable/Disable Avatar, Track User, Disable Attachments, Trusted User to autoapprove moderated posts.

Security:
Control individual forum access with DNN Roles
Flexible security settings allow you to control which roles can View, Read, Create,Reply, Edit, Delete, Pin, Lock, Attach and Subscribe
Select or Create a DNN role for moderators
Select an individual user as the moderator of a particular forum instead of creating a new role.

Attachments:
Ability to store attachments in database or file system.
Enable or Disable attachments per forum.
Control how many attachments are allowed per forum.
Control file types that are allowed per forum.
Specify max file size per attachment.
Images files are automatically displayed in-line.
Non-images are displayed as a link to download.
Images are automatically re-sized to your height and width parameters if specified.

ALSO INCLUDED: ActiveForums Latest Discussions Module
Easily display the  latest discussions on any page.  The Latest Discussion module lists the Subject and Author of the most recent posts.  The subject is displayed as a link directly to the topic.
Perfect for getting a visitors attention on your front page.