We managed to get a hands on experience with the WashiForums Alpha. WashiForums is made by the same team which brought you White Crane.

For those who are familiar to White Crane, upon installation you will be greeted with the same simple design which was made famous by White Crane, gone is the deep blue colour scheme but now a lush green is dipped across this theme.

There are lots of bugs in the system which while its a great step in the right direction, it may be some time before we see it working across older versions of PHP rather then 5 which it was developed for. As well as a few design choices which so far limit what can be done.

The simple feature list is edit and delete of users posts. No-one can join unless the admin ads them so far and like White Crane the Admistrative panels are simple and easy to use.

From my knowledge the forum software uses the same theme set up as White Crane, so it would be easy to create themes for the forum software.

Like White Crane the forum posting system works like the Wiki URL system of White Crane- as well as typing in the header of the page you want created on the main page.

While there isn’t much to show and see, the system so far works in some degrees and in others no so. The sour taste after testing the forum software reminds the user that it is indeed an Alpha. With bugs appearing more and more as testing progressed.

It’s a step in the right direction and we look forward to seeing the final product or the next betas We have though concerns over security and the strengths of the system. Like White Crane – WashiForums doesn’t use mySQL.

Extra Links

- White Crane

- AmotoSystems

- WashiBoard Main Page