JForum has a growing number of features, with a lot more being asked and developed each day. Here you will find a list of the most useful and common features currently available. Also, take a look at some screenshots.

• Easy installation through graphical web interface

• Unlimited forums, categories, and topics
• Support for several popular databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle and HSQLDB
• Karma - Rate messages and users
• Bookmarks - save your favourite threads and share with other users
• Easy migration from phpBB
• Friendly URLs (no more long and hard-to-remember links!)
• Listing of currently online users
• Listing of the Most Recent topics from the whole forum
• Fast and scalable, perfect for busy sites - unlike most message board systems, JForum caches frequently accessed data to avoid excessive querying of the database

• File Attachments, with fully customizable options
• HTML and BBCode support
• Automatic parsing of links in messages
• Integrated private message system
• Email notifications for topics on private messages
• Unlimited emoticons, easily administered via a configuration panel
• RSS syndication
• Sticky topics and announcements
• Post preview

• Easy to moderate
• Moderated Categories and Forums - Administrators may allow new messages be posted only after the approval of some moderator or administrator
• Topics can be locked/unlocked and moved between forums
• Topics can be moved between forums

• Read-only forums - Forums where is not possible to post new messages, just reading
• Reply-only forums - Forums where only reply to existing posts are allowed
• Robust security system
• Forum moderators can be granted varying levels of control
• Advanced HTML filter, for increased security

• Easy and fast development for any other data source
• Familiar and attractive layout
• Highly customized permission control, allowing fine control over access to any forum and category, by group and by user
• Easy to support new bbtags via a XML configuration file
• Uses the simple and powerful Freemarker templating system which allows unlimited control over layout and theming
• Supports individual themes/templates for users
• Support for different languages; easy to add new languages

• Member Listing
• User defined avatars
• User banning
• Unlimited users, groups, and groups per user
• User profile
• User ranks
• Language preferences may be set on a per user basis
• Remembers last read messages and tracks new posts