Q: Can I easily and painlessly administrate forums/messages/users rights/users/blah blah blah. Are these features available in the software?

Yes of course. Everything can be controlled in admin panel and beside the posts when you are either Admin or Moderator of the forum. You can have as many admins and moderators as you want, and have them monitor your forum usage for you. We support group based moderator assignment that can effectively shorten the time you need to set up moderators for all your forums.

In addition, ASPPlayground.NET gives you complete control over "who can do what" in your forum, as we support complete user group based policy for managing your users permissions on each forum. You can create unlimited groups (3 types- public/private/hidden), assign different permissions to different groups for each forum, and add unlimited users to a group.

Permissions you can set for each group in each forum:

• General Permission: Post & Reply/Post-only/Reply-Only/Read-only/List/No Access
• Can create polls?
• Can vote in polls?
• Can rate messages?
• Can upload attachments? Attachment Size and Extension restriction can also be configured for each user group.

Unlike other software, our forum allows you to add a member to multiple groups, and still frees you from possible permission conflicts. What's more about the user group based policy is that your members can easily apply to join any user group that is enabled for membership application. You can then assign a group manager to each group to take care of the approving process. An automatic welcome message can also be set up to notify members about their approvals, and certainly, disapproval reasons can also be sent.