Some terms in other Forum Softwares may be different in SMF. To prevent confusion, here is a list of some of the more common terms in other software and SMF.

The following is a list of terms that other software uses (left side) and what SMF calls those terms (right side).

Common

Forums -> Board Private Message -> Personal message Sub-Forum -> Child Board Super Moderator -> Global Moderator User CP -> Profile Thread -> Topic Boards -> forum

Invision Power Board

Ranks -> Post Membergroups User Groups -> Primary Membergroups Bad Word Filters -> Censored Words Skin -> Theme Emoticon -> Smiley Board Offline / Online -> Maintenance Mode Bulk Mail -> Newsletters Reply (Button) -> Quote (Button) Last Click -> Who's Online My Controls -> Profile Pinned Topic -> Sticky Topic Closed Topic -> Locked Topic Compared with IPB 2.1.7

vBulletin

Style -> Theme Mailing List -> Newsletter Access Masks -> Permissions Ranks -> Membergroups Reputation -> Karma User Titles -> Post Membergroups Plug in -> Package (Mod) Subscriptions -> Notifications Closed Thread -> Locked topic Compared with vBulletin 3.6.0

phpBB

Disable Board -> Maintenance Mode Style -> Theme Mass Email -> Newsletters Word Censors -> Censored Words Groups -> Membergroups Disallowed Names -> Reserved Names Ranks -> Membergroups Compared with phpBB 2.0.21

MyBB

Board Closed -> Maintenance Mode Custom User Title - Custom Title MyCode -> BBCode Reputation -> Karma Groups -> Membergroups User Titles -> Post Membergroups Mass Email -> Newsletters Bad Words -> Censored Words Closed Thread -> Locked Topic Compared with MyBB 1.2

Additional note: In many forum software you will find the term 'forum' used for each section (board) on the forum, on SMF these are called boards, and the term 'forum' is referred to the entire forum composed of all of the boards.