General | bbPress | Invision Power Board | MyBB | OvBB | Phorum | phpBB | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla | vBulletin |
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Version |
0.9.0.4
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3.2.3
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1.6.3
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0.16a
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5.2.9a
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3.0.8
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2015-07-13
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2.6.4
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4.1.5
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Release Date |
2009-01-02 (15 years ago)
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2011-10-17 (12 years ago)
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2011-04-16 (13 years ago)
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2007-04-05 (17 years ago)
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2008-10-12 (15 years ago)
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2010-11-19 (13 years ago)
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2015-07-12 (8 years ago)
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2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
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2011-07-26 (12 years ago)
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Last Update here |
2009-03-11 (15 years ago)
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2012-02-07 (12 years ago)
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2011-06-22 (12 years ago)
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2008-01-21 (16 years ago)
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2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
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2011-06-22 (12 years ago)
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2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
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2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
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2011-08-25 (12 years ago)
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Author |
bbpress.org
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Invision Power Services
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MyBB Group
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Jonathon Freeman & Brian Otto
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Phorum Dev Team
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The phpBB Group
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Yves Goergen
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Vanilla Forums Inc
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vBulletin Solutions
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URL | |||||||||
Free and Open Source |
Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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License |
GPL2
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Commercial
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Custom
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MIT
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The Phorum License (BSD)
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General Public License
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GPL
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GPL
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commercial / visible source
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License cost |
0
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License from $175 / Hosted from $5 per month
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US$0
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0
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0
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0.00
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0
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0
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$285 Suite or $195 Forum
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Main View |
Classic forum list
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Both, can be configured
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Thread-Type |
Flat
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Flat
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Threaded or Flat
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Flat
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Threaded or Flat
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Flat
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Flat
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Flat
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Threaded or Flat
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Setup | bbPress | Invision Power Board | MyBB | OvBB | Phorum | phpBB | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla | vBulletin |
Installation method |
wizard
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wizard
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wizard
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wizard
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wizard
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wizard
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manual
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wizard
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wizard
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Upgrade method |
wizard
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wizard
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wizard
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wizard
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wizard
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wizard with manual interactions
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manual
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manual
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wizard with manual interactions
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Hosting available |
No
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Yes
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No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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Technology | bbPress | Invision Power Board | MyBB | OvBB | Phorum | phpBB | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla | vBulletin |
Programming Language |
PHP
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PHP 5.2+
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PHP
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PHP
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PHP
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PHP
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PHP 5
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PHP
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PHP
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UTF-8 Support |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Data Storage |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
3
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database |
2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database |
6
Firebird Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
Other Storage | |||||||||
Source Code Repo | |||||||||
Issue Tracker | |||||||||
Posts | bbPress | Invision Power Board | MyBB | OvBB | Phorum | phpBB | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla | vBulletin |
BBCode |
Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Optional
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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Yes
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HTML |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Optional
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No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Emoticons |
Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Optional
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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Yes
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Formatting Toolbar |
Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Optional
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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Yes
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WYSIWYG Editor |
No
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Yes
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Plugin
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No
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Plugin
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No
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No
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Plugin
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Yes
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Quoting |
Nested
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Nested
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Nested
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Nested
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Nested
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Nested
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Nested
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Single
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Nested
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Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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Yes
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Attachments |
Multiple files
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Multiple files
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Multiple files
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Multiple files
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Multiple files
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Multiple files
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One file
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Multiple files
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Multiple files
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Tags |
Unknown
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Unknown
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Unknown
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Unknown
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Unknown
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Unknown
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No
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Yes
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Unknown
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Mark as solved |
No
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A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
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Forums | bbPress | Invision Power Board | MyBB | OvBB | Phorum | phpBB | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla | vBulletin |
Categories |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Subforums |
unlimited
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unlimited
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unlimited
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No
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multiple levels
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unlimited
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unlimited
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unlimited
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unlimited
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Last Post |
Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Optional
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Yes
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Yes
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Redirect Forums |
Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Trashcan Forum |
Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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No
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No
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No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Anti-Spam and Security | bbPress | Invision Power Board | MyBB | OvBB | Phorum | phpBB | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla | vBulletin |
CAPTCHA |
Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Optional
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Yes
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Optional
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Yes
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Yes
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Groups |
One group only
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Multiple groups
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Multiple groups
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One group only
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Multiple groups
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Multiple groups
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Multiple groups
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Multiple groups
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Multiple groups
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Flood Control |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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ACLs |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Blacklist |
Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Warnings |
Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Plugin
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Yes
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No
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Plugin
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Yes
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Suspension |
Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Plugin
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Bans |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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IP-Block |
Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Optional
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Yes
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Yes
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Audit Logging |
Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Optional
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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User Reports |
Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Plugin
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Yes
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Other |
Spam Monitoring Service, Flag As Spammer, Question & Answer System
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Akismet plugin available.
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Aksimet Plugin
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Plugin-based CAPTCHA system, Newly Registered Users permissions
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Community Curation & SPAM removal
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Akismet
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Notification | bbPress | Invision Power Board | MyBB | OvBB | Phorum | phpBB | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla | vBulletin |
RSS/ATOM |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
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Instant Messaging |
Plugin
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No
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No
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0
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Jabber
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Jabber
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Bookmarks |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Community | bbPress | Invision Power Board | MyBB | OvBB | Phorum | phpBB | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla | vBulletin |
Avatars |
Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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User Ranks |
Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Rating/Karma System |
Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Plugin
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Patch
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Signatures |
Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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Yes
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Users Online List |
Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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Yes
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Private Messaging |
Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Custom profile fields |
Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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Yes
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Moderation | bbPress | Invision Power Board | MyBB | OvBB | Phorum | phpBB | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla | vBulletin |
Moderators |
global
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global and forums
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global and forums
|
global
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global and forums
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global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
Move Threads |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Split Threads |
Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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Yes
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Close Threads |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Shadow Topics |
Unknown
|
Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
|
Yes
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Sticky Threads |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Important Threads |
Plugin
|
Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Search | bbPress | Invision Power Board | MyBB | OvBB | Phorum | phpBB | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla | vBulletin |
Full-text search |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Author search |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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Advanced search |
Plugin
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
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Session tracked
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Database tracked
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Database tracked
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Database tracked
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Database tracked
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Database tracked
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Customization | bbPress | Invision Power Board | MyBB | OvBB | Phorum | phpBB | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla | vBulletin |
Languages |
0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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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 |
Unknown
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Unknown
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Unknown
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Unknown
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Unknown
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Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
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Templates |
global
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global
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global and forum specific
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global and forum specific
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global
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global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
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Custom BBCodes |
Plugin
|
Yes
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Yes
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No
|
Plugin
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Yes
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Patch
|
Plugin
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Yes
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Skin-Editor |
No
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Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
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Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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Smiley Packs |
Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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No
|
Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
|
Plugin
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Yes
|
Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Special Features | bbPress | Invision Power Board | MyBB | OvBB | Phorum | phpBB | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla | vBulletin |
Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Polls |
Plugin
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
|
Plugin
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Yes
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Calendar |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
|
No
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No
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Plugin
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Yes
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Friendly URLs |
Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Data Management | bbPress | Invision Power Board | MyBB | OvBB | Phorum | phpBB | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla | vBulletin |
Available Importers |
Invision Board 1.1.2, phpBB 2.0.x, Woltlab Burning Board 1.x
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All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
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Pruning |
Plugin
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Yes
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Plugin
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No
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Yes
|
Yes
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Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Archiving |
Plugin
|
Yes
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No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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Yes
|
Yes
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Export Formats |
BBXF
|
SQL
|
No
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SQL Dumps in .sql, sql.gz, and .sql.bz2
|
none
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
Single Table CSV, Single and Multi-Table SQL
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Export private messages |
Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Lo-Fi View |
Plugin
|
Yes
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Yes
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No
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Optional
|
Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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remove bbPress | remove Invision Power Board | remove MyBB | remove OvBB | remove Phorum | remove phpBB | remove Unclassified NewsBoard | remove Vanilla | remove vBulletin |