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Welcome to Tetra-WebBBS and TetraBB PRO

Tetra-WebBBS is a follow-up of WebBBS, a web-based bulletin board (or forum) system originally programmed by Darryl Burgdorf. Darryl's development of WebBBS stopped at version 5.12 back in 2002. In 2006, a team of people, unrelated to Darryl, started working on their own updated version, named Tetra-WebBBS.
Tetra-WebBBS is released as freeware and allows for a very flexible, customizable setup and offers a wide variety of options to both the administrator and the users. Learn more »

TetraBB PRO is starting as work-in-progress in 2008 to become an extension to Tetra-WebBBS.
TetraBB PRO will offer a variety of advanced features and will be released as shareware once it's finished. - Meanwhile preliminary releases of TetraBB PRO will be available on special request. Learn more »

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Tetra Webbbs 5.20 Beta now available for download
Tetra Webbbs 5.20 Beta now available for download The Webbbs 5.20 Beta version is now available for download as a Zip File. You will see it here: Tetra Team Download List listed as webbbs 5.20 beta zip . Why do we call it beta? Although it's been used by the team for its forum for quite a ...
Version 5.2 released
After 7 months of development, 5.20 is finished and available in the download section. Some things to say about the concept in general and 5.20 in particular: The concept is to deal with one or two major topics in each release. Try covering these topics completely to catch up with modern ...
Version 5.21 released *LINK*
Why upgrade to 5.2x.. Less opened back doors to spammers. 'Return-to-Index' now takes one back to the index page that s/he was viewing before s/he left for viewing a message. A more informative Stats page. Demo.. The code runs faster and should use less memory. The speed difference is ...
Change in release policy. *LINK* *PIC*
For the future the team has decided to offer two releases for download: (1) the latest stable release As the name implies this is considered a stable release and is meant to be used for production boards. Obviously the stable release is the one users should pick to run their websites with. At the ...
Server move
Hi folks, the team is moving to a new server. Unfortunately there was a couple of days downtime and not everything is ready on the new server. We take the opportunity to rearrange the domains setup. Download area will be up as soon as possible. At least we do our best. Please note that we're ...
Showroom *LINK*
Newly opened is our Showroom. It's our attempt to bring to light the potential of Tetra-WebBBS. Many options are available to the admin and the users to tailor the index and the message pages. Some examples are provided to help you understand the different viewing styles. Tetra-WebBBS provides ...
Version 5.22 released *LINK*
Why upgrade to 5.22.. Admins can now individualize their forums by changing the query strings for form requests and post requests. Form requests and post attempts using the default query strings will be rejected (as most likely they are made by spambots.) Improved restrictions for search engines ...
Clickable Smiley and Format Button plugin released
This plugin adds clickable smileys and/or format buttons to your message post-form. More info: http://tetrabb.com/portal.pl?bid=3&read=7 Download: http://tetrabb.com/dl_gueststats.pl
Bulkdelete Moderated Posts plugin released
This plugin is designed to help board admins maintain their moderated bin. Install this plugin. Then go to the approval screen showing the messages in the moderated bin. At the top of the approval screen are the bulkdelete options. Bulkdeleting messages from the moderated bin becomes quick and ...
Profilehelp plugin released
This plugin is designed to help users to recover their profile if they have forgotten their password. The profile was sponsored by John Caldwell, aka beachguy. Thanks John. More info: http://tetrabb.com/portal.pl?bid=3&read=11 Download: http://tetrabb.com/dl_gueststats.pl
Email-captcha plugin released
Posters may safely post their email address on your forum. Email-captcha plugin hides an address and displays a "Show E-Mail" link. In order to reveal the address, a user must click on the "Show E-Mail" link and solve a CAPTCHA. Bots won't be able to find the email address and ...
BulkDelete/Archive tool released
BulkDelete/Archive is a standalone tool that allows you to delete threads or move them to an archive. You can set the tool script to delete/move threads when they reach a certain age or when the number of messages exceeds a defined maximum count. The tool can be set to run a number of such ...
Tetra WebBBS and Joomla! *LINK*
You've been running WebBBS as your forum software ever since and want to relaunch your site using a content management system such as Joomla! but would like to stay with WebBBS? - Well, you're not the only one thinking of such a relaunch You're running a website using a content management system ...
Tetra WebBBS 5.30 Beta 1 released
Why a Beta? The version being released is supposed to be almost the final code. Almost, because we have yet to fix any bugs to be revealed by those running the Beta. We don't have any documentation yet, other than a very brief setup guide . Writing the docs will take another 1-2 months. ...
Tetra WebBBS 5.30 final released
2008-02-26 Now that the Beta has been used by several testers on various boards and only some minor bugs have been revealed and fixed, the final get's pushed out: Tetra-WebBBS 5.30 now is the latest stable version. Unfortunately still there are no docs yet. Thus I've written a brief list of ...
Folks, upgrade your old WebBBS forums!
2008-03-11 The latest version, Tetra-WebBBS 5.30, is running on various sites for several months now. Even on high-traffic sites it's running flawlessly since the beginning. 5.30 finally is the foundation on which future development will build. Esp. the new default folder structure allows for ...
MailDigest 1.01 released
2008-03-26 MailDigest is a tool for sending out notification emails to subscribers to your forum. Though MailDigest can be run via browser or commandline it's basically intended to be invoked as a cronjob. The new version is a replacement for the old *digest.pl* by Darryl Burgdorf. Besides ...
SmileyFormat plugin 1.12 released
2008-04-01 This minor release now works with post editforms as well. Download is here: http://tetrabb.com/dl_gueststats.pl
Project news
2008-4-7 Well folks, it's time to keep you posted about this project. Some of you may have noticed the term "Tetra-Team" has been removed from the header of the site. The reason is simple, there is no such thing as Tetra-Team any more. Two years ago 4 people interested in WebBBS started to pick ...
Docs for Tetra WebBBS 5.3x online
2008-4-17 Documentation for the current stable release finally is online now. Docs have been extended. Most of Tetra-WebBBS' treasures are waiting for your visit. Only a few items will be completed soon because upcoming 5.31 release and a new tool will have major influence on those left-over ...
Viewcount_BR 1.00 released
2008-4-27 Viewcount_BR is a tool for Backup/Restore the viewcount's DBM database file. It's optimized for Tetra-WebBBS 5.30 and later versions. It does work with prior Tetra-WebBBS versions and even older WebBBS 5.0x/5.1x versions, though using it with older versions is less convenient. Moving ...
Tetra WebBBS 5.31 released
2008-5-17 Time for an update Learn about new features, changes and fixes of Tetra-WebBBS 5.31: http://tetrabb.com/docs53x.pl?bid=8&read=42 Download page: http://tetrabb.com/dl_gueststats.pl Those installing from scratch or upgrading from versions prior to 5.30 please follow this guide: ...
German language module for Tetra WebBBS 5.31 released
2008-6-8 The first foreign language module for Tetra WebBBS 5.31 is available for download. Guess nobody will be surprised it's a German language module Download is here: http://tetrabb.com/dl_gueststats.pl For the record: This module is supposed to be used with version 5.31 of Tetra WebBBS. ...
Dutch language module for Tetra WebBBS 5.31 released
2008-06-18 Thanks to Benny Belmans from ArtMania.net Internet Solutions the first Dutch language module is available for Tetra WebBBS 5.31. The translated version is running live at www.hafrabra.net . Thanks for your effort, Benny! Download available here: http://tetrabb.com/dl_gueststats.pl
Tetra WebBBS 5.32 released
2008-07-28 Tetra WebBBS 5.32 is a bugfix release for version 5.31. Only minor changes, no new features. Nevertheless everybody should update his/her Tetra WebBBS forums to the current version. Download page: http://tetrabb.com/dl_gueststats.pl Complete docs for 5.3x: ...
Milestone ahead
2008-08-25 It's time again to keep all interested folks posted about the current status of development. Months ago I said this year will become interesting, and ...... indeed it is Steve suggested a new feature in May (no, I won't tell you what it is ). Planning details for this new feature ...
Version 6 is up to schedule
2008-10-09 Who expected that statement except Steve and me? Last week we started to prepare upgrades for a couple of sites. Installing the current snapshot and tweaking for going live soon. Currently it's a late pre-beta. As soon as I've installed on all those sites having booked for ongoing ...