| General | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2015-07-13
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2.6.4
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10.1, 9.4 LTS and 6.10 LTS
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| Release Date |
2015-07-13 (10 years ago)
|
2018-10-29 (7 years ago)
|
2013-02-09 (13 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
|
2013-02-19 (13 years ago)
|
| Author |
Yves Goergen
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
Tiki Software Community Association
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
GPL
|
LGPL
|
| License cost |
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Main View |
Classic forum list
|
Both, can be configured
|
|
| Thread-Type |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
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| Setup | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| Installation method |
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
| Upgrade method |
manual
|
manual
|
wizard
|
| Hosting available |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Technology | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| Programming Language |
PHP 5
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
| Other Storage | |||
| Source Code Repo | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Posts | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| BBCode |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| HTML |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Quoting |
Nested
|
Single
|
Nested
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Attachments |
One file
|
Multiple files
|
One file
|
| Tags |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Mark as solved |
No
|
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
|
| Forums | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
one level
|
| Last Post |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Trashcan Forum |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| CAPTCHA |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Warnings |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Suspension |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| User Reports |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Other |
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
||
| Notification | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
Jabber
|
||
| Bookmarks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Community | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Rating/Karma System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Users Online List |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
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| Private Messaging |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Moderation | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| Moderators |
global, forums and threads
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Shadow Topics |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Search | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
|
| Customization | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| Languages |
13
Czech, German, English, French, Hungarian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Chinese |
141
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Javanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu |
0
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| Mobile View |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
global
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Patch
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Skin-Editor |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Smiley Packs |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Management | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| Available Importers |
Invision Board 1.1.2, phpBB 2.0.x, Woltlab Burning Board 1.x
|
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
|
| Pruning |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Export Formats |
none
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
|
| Export private messages |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Lo-Fi View |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
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