Orca, The All Ajax Forum

With all the hype of Ajax, and its use on blogs and social news websites, it was only a matter of time before it was used on forums. Orca interactive forum script is an all Ajax forum. Navigating, posting, register, logging in are all done via Ajax. This however does make the load time considerably less than most websites. By now you’re probably asking how much it costs; well the answer is GPL. Yup it’s free and open source. They claim it can easily be integrated with most forum software, and will eliminate your need for forum moderators. Users of the forum moderate other people’s posts by themselves.

The software is not ready for use yet, and is in beta stage. In my opinion the software looks like it’s alpha. After taking a look at the demo, there are a few obvious bugs. When making long titles the text goes over the images. When not logged in, trying to moderate a comment does absolutely nothing. It should at least go to a login screen. Clicking new topic when not logged in has a different error than post reply, and reloads the page to do so. All and all the software has a lot of potential, and will be very usable when all the issues are worked out. Hope I start seeing it on some sites sometime soon.