The main difference between Beehive and most other forum software is its frame-based interface which lists discussion titles on the left and displays their contents on the right.

Other features which differentiate Beehive from most forums include: Beehive is used by the popular UK technology website The Inquirer on the Hermits Cave Message Board.

[3] On 28 November 2007, Nick Bennet and Robert Brown of Symantec Corporation discovered a security flaw related to Beehive's database input handling.

The vulnerability could "allow a remote user to execute SQL injection attacks".

The Beehive Forum team responded very rapidly with a fix released, in the form of version 0.8 of the software, later that day.