The NewBB module is a forum or bulletin board module. Depending on permissions set by the site administrators, moderators, registered users and anonymous guests can exchange posts and discuss topics. Forum management is done from within the Admin Control Panel, but assigned moderators can do from basic forum moderation within the forum itself.
Four blocks are available for display, usually in the front page: Most viewed topics, Most active topics, Recent topics, and Recent private topics.
Some of the features of the module are:
You can set private forums, available only to members
Each message shows the user's avatar
You can preview your message before actually posting it
Moderators can be defined per category
Users can be notified about most events in the forums
You can optionally allow the use XoopsCode and HTML in posts
It's possible to link to images
It's possible to add clickable URLs and email addresses