| General | Beehive Forum | FUDforum | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.4.7
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3.0.9
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2.6.4
|
2015-07-13
|
| Release Date |
2015-06-04 (11 years ago)
|
2018-05-18 (8 years ago)
|
2018-10-29 (7 years ago)
|
2015-07-13 (10 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2016-02-08 (10 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
|
| Author |
Matt Beale, Mark Rendle
|
The FUDForum development team and user community.
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
Yves Goergen
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
GNU General Public License
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
| License cost |
0
|
Free
|
0
|
0
|
| Main View |
Classic forum list
|
Both, can be configured
|
Classic forum list
|
|
| Thread-Type |
Threaded or Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Setup | Beehive Forum | FUDforum | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
manual
|
| Upgrade method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
manual
|
manual
|
| Hosting available |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Technology | Beehive Forum | FUDforum | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP 5
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
1
MySQL Database |
7
DB2 Database, Firebird Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
| Other Storage | ||||
| Source Code Repo | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Posts | Beehive Forum | FUDforum | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| BBCode |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| HTML |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Nested
|
Nested
|
Single
|
Nested
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
One file
|
| Tags |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Mark as solved |
No
|
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
No
|
|
| Forums | Beehive Forum | FUDforum | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Redirect Forums |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Trashcan Forum |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | Beehive Forum | FUDforum | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| CAPTCHA |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Warnings |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Audit Logging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Other |
Worming, Pilllorying
|
Several others like SpamBot detection, prevent new users from posting links, etc.
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
|
| Notification | Beehive Forum | FUDforum | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes - via ICQ, AIM, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, Jabber, Google Chat or Skype.
|
Jabber
|
|
| Bookmarks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Community | Beehive Forum | FUDforum | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Users Online List |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Custom profile fields |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Moderation | Beehive Forum | FUDforum | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Moderators |
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
global, forums and threads
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Search | Beehive Forum | FUDforum | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
| Customization | Beehive Forum | FUDforum | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Languages |
0
|
0
|
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 |
13
Czech, German, English, French, Hungarian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Chinese |
| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Templates |
CSS only
|
global
|
global and forum specific
|
global
|
| Custom BBCodes |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Skin-Editor |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Smiley Packs |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Plugins |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Beehive Forum | FUDforum | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Calendar |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Friendly URLs |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Management | Beehive Forum | FUDforum | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
Invision Board 1.1.2, phpBB 2.0.x, Woltlab Burning Board 1.x
|
||
| Pruning |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Archiving |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Export Formats |
PDF (Adobe), ATOM, RSS, RDF, HTML
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
none
|
|
| Export private messages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| remove Beehive Forum | remove FUDforum | remove Vanilla | remove Unclassified NewsBoard |