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  • Server downtime July 2nd
    July 2nd, between 11 am and 2 pm EST we've experienced server problems causing simplemachines.org to be unreachable. We are still looking into what happened, but suspect a power failure might have caused this issue.

    The site has been checked for errors...

  • Simple Machines adds team dedicated to internationalization
    From the start, Simple Machines Forum has been made by many people around the globe and has been translated and supported in many languages. The software has always been developed with localization in mind.  Our translators provide a large number of tr...

  • SMF 1.1.9 and 2.0 RC1-1 released
    Simple Machines announces the release of SMF 1.1.9 and 2.0 RC1-1, addressing a few vulnerabilities found in SMF 1.1.8 and 2.0 RC1. We strongly recommend that all users upgrade as soon as possible.

    It should be noted that SMF 2.0 RC1-1 is not the...

  • Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
    Hey guys, just a heads up about some upcoming server maintenance.

    Tomorrow, 05/15/09, beginning around 10:00AM EDT, we will be migrating our servers to a new rack in a different building a few miles away. During the same window, I will be bringing onli...

  • New SQL Server
    Hey guys, just wanted to give everyone an update on the site status.

    We have just completed migrating our SQL databases to a brand new box. The new machine is a 2.5GHz 8 core machine with 12GB of RAM and 6 146GB 10,000 RPM SAS drives in RAID 10. This s...

  • simplemachines.org Mail Issues
    Update: As the mail server has been stable for a while now, this can be considered fixed.


    We are currently having some issues in receiving mail sent to addresses at simplemachines.org. Our team is working on finding the cause and getting it corrected.

    ...

  • Announcing a new look for SMF 2.0: Curve
    Simple Machines is extremely proud to announce the addition of a new default theme for SMF 2.0.  Codenamed "Curve", the new default theme is the culmination of our efforts to offer a more semantically correct default theme.  In addition, with a heavier...

  • SMF 2.0 Release Candidate 1 is out!
    Simple Machines is proud to announce the release of SMF 2.0 RC1. This first Release Candidate for 2.0 concludes the period of beta testing and is one of last steps towards 2.0 going gold. Numerous bugs that were reported after the release of Beta 4 hav...

  • SMF Big Boards
    SMF has an exclusive board for forum owners who have over 500,000 posts where owners can talk and share tips about how they manage such large boards from both a technical and administrative angle.

    Currently we've been searching for sites that meet the ...

  • SMF is searching for translators!
    Thanks to a very active community, Simple Machines Forum is currently available in over 40 languages. Even though we're proud of that fact, we continue to search for ways to improve the quali...

  • SMF to attend O' Reilly's OSCON
    SMF to attend O' Reilly's OSCON.

    UPDATE: READ MORE ABOUT SMF @ OSCON

    Simplemachines.org has some exciting ne...

  • Function DB Version 2.0...
    Sometime last year (or possibly even in 2006), I started thinking about improvements to the function DB, and noticed one major issue: due to the way the data was stored, we had to add an entire new function entry if a function was moved or changed in s...

  • Theme Contest Winners!
    The voting for theme contest has now closed, and the results have been calculated.

    First, we would like to thank all participants who entered the theme contest, we saw some good themes and hope to see more themes from everyone in the future.

    The top ...

  • Theme Contest Voting
    Well folks the Theme Contest is now closed. For the last 9 days the team have been busting their brains to narrow the voting down to the final 8. Now it's up to you guys and gals to bring the 8 down to three.

    In case you all have forgotten what's at st...

  • A reminder to keep your emails up to date
    Dear members, recently a large number of bounced emails have been generated from personal message notifications, release announcements, and topic notifications because many members here have either deleted their email account or have an invalid email a...

  • Simple Machines Theme Contest
    Simple Machines would like to announce today the opening of our second Theme Contest, to give our community members the challenge to create some new and exiting themes to show how nice and perhaps, exotic SMF can be.

    To enter the contest, all you have ...

  • Download Mirrors
    Thanks to Network Redux and Ubiquity Hosting Solutions, Simple Machines now has two offsite servers available.  These servers are being used, in part, as download mirror...

  • Looking back- an interview with Joseph Fung, Jeff Lewis and [Unknown]
    As Simple Machines readies itself for a new year, I thought I'd take a look back at just how far we've come.  In doing so, I immediately contacted a few of SMF's founders, Joseph Fung, Jeff Lewis, and [Unknown]. For most SMF'ers, this group needs not i...

  • New private beta download policy for new Charter Members.
    Dear Charter Members,

    Due to some recent issues that we have had with certain new members, we have added a restriction on our private beta downloads.  Now you you must be a Charter Member for a week before you can download private beta releases....

  • SMF's ban policy and how to "appeal" it.
    Heya, folks!  We've had a few people banned recently, and there's really no single place for cohesive ban guidelines, so we thought we'd share some guidelines and suggestions with y'all.

    First off, getting banned here takes quite a bit of effort.  The ...


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