| General | Beehive Forum | GroupServer | OvBB | Phorum | Vanilla |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.4.7
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1.0β
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0.16a
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5.2.9a
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2.6.4
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| Release Date |
2015-06-04 (11 years ago)
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2010 June 16
|
2007-04-06 (19 years ago)
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2008-10-13 (17 years ago)
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2018-10-29 (7 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2016-02-08 (10 years ago)
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2010-06-21 (16 years ago)
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2008-01-21 (18 years ago)
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2008-10-16 (17 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
|
| Author |
Matt Beale, Mark Rendle
|
OnlineGroups.Net
|
Jonathon Freeman & Brian Otto
|
Phorum Dev Team
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
GPL
|
MIT
|
The Phorum License (BSD)
|
GPL
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| License cost |
0
|
$0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
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| Thread-Type |
Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
|
| Setup | Beehive Forum | GroupServer | OvBB | Phorum | Vanilla |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
| Upgrade method |
wizard
|
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
manual
|
| Hosting available |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
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| Technology | Beehive Forum | GroupServer | OvBB | Phorum | Vanilla |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
Python & Zope
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
1
MySQL Database |
1
PostgreSQL Database |
2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database |
2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
| Other Storage |
Zope Object Database
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| Source Code Repo | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Posts | Beehive Forum | GroupServer | OvBB | Phorum | Vanilla |
| BBCode |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| HTML |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Nested
|
None
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Single
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
| Tags |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
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| Forums | Beehive Forum | GroupServer | OvBB | Phorum | Vanilla |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
No
|
No
|
multiple levels
|
unlimited
|
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Trashcan Forum |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | Beehive Forum | GroupServer | OvBB | Phorum | Vanilla |
| CAPTCHA |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
One group only
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
Worming, Pilllorying
|
Spam Assasin is used for email spam control.
|
Aksimet Plugin
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
|
| Notification | Beehive Forum | GroupServer | OvBB | Phorum | Vanilla |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
Yes
|
Integrated Chat
|
No
|
0
|
|
| Bookmarks |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Community | Beehive Forum | GroupServer | OvBB | Phorum | Vanilla |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Users Online List |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Moderation | Beehive Forum | GroupServer | OvBB | Phorum | Vanilla |
| Moderators |
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
global
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Search | Beehive Forum | GroupServer | OvBB | Phorum | Vanilla |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Session tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
|
| Customization | Beehive Forum | GroupServer | OvBB | Phorum | Vanilla |
| Languages |
0
|
0
|
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 |
| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Templates |
CSS only
|
global
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
|
| Custom BBCodes |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Skin-Editor |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Smiley Packs |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Plugins |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Beehive Forum | GroupServer | OvBB | Phorum | Vanilla |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Calendar |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Friendly URLs |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Data Management | Beehive Forum | GroupServer | OvBB | Phorum | Vanilla |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
||||
| Pruning |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Export Formats |
XML, mbox
|
No
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
||
| Export private messages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| remove Beehive Forum | remove GroupServer | remove OvBB | remove Phorum | remove Vanilla |