DjangoBB vs. Vanilla vs. GroupServer vs. FUDforum

General DjangoBB Vanilla GroupServer FUDforum
Version
development
2.6.4
1.0β
3.0.9
Release Date
2018-10-29 (7 years ago)
2010 June 16
2018-05-18 (8 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-12-15 (15 years ago)
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
2010-06-21 (15 years ago)
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
Author
Alexey Afinogenov, Sergey Maranchuk
Vanilla Forums Inc
OnlineGroups.Net
The FUDForum development team and user community.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
GPL
GNU General Public License
License cost
0
0
$0
Free
Main View
Both, can be configured
Classic forum list
Thread-Type
Flat
Flat
Flat
Threaded or Flat
Setup DjangoBB Vanilla GroupServer FUDforum
Installation method
manual
wizard
manual
wizard
Upgrade method
manual
manual
manual
wizard
Hosting available
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Technology DjangoBB Vanilla GroupServer FUDforum
Programming Language
Python
PHP
Python & Zope
PHP
UTF-8 Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Data Storage
4
MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database
1
MySQL Database
1
PostgreSQL Database
7
DB2 Database, Firebird Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database
Other Storage
Zope Object Database
Source Code Repo
Issue Tracker
Posts DjangoBB Vanilla GroupServer FUDforum
BBCode
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
HTML
No
Yes
No
Yes
Emoticons
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Formatting Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editor
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Quoting
Nested
Single
None
Nested
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Attachments
One file
Multiple files
Multiple files
Multiple files
Tags
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Mark as solved
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
No
Forums DjangoBB Vanilla GroupServer FUDforum
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Subforums
No
unlimited
No
unlimited
Last Post
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Redirect Forums
No
Yes
No
Yes
Trashcan Forum
No
Yes
No
Yes
Anti-Spam and Security DjangoBB Vanilla GroupServer FUDforum
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
Yes
Groups
Multiple groups
Multiple groups
Multiple groups
Multiple groups
Flood Control
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACLs
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Warnings
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Suspension
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Bans
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
IP-Block
No
Yes
No
Yes
Audit Logging
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
User Reports
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Other
Community Curation & SPAM removal
Spam Assasin is used for email spam control.
Several others like SpamBot detection, prevent new users from posting links, etc.
Notification DjangoBB Vanilla GroupServer FUDforum
RSS/ATOM
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
E-Mail
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Instant Messaging
Integrated Chat
Yes - via ICQ, AIM, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, Jabber, Google Chat or Skype.
Bookmarks
No
Yes
No
Yes
Community DjangoBB Vanilla GroupServer FUDforum
Avatars
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
User Ranks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Rating/Karma System
No
Yes
No
Yes
Signatures
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Users Online List
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Private Messaging
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom profile fields
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Moderation DjangoBB Vanilla GroupServer FUDforum
Moderators
global and forums
global, forums and threads
global and forums
global and forums
Move Threads
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Split Threads
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Close Threads
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Shadow Topics
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Sticky Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Important Threads
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Search DjangoBB Vanilla GroupServer FUDforum
Full-text search
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Author search
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Advanced search
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unread Topics
Database tracked
Database tracked
Database tracked
Customization DjangoBB Vanilla GroupServer FUDforum
Languages
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
0
0
Mobile View
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Templates
global and forum specific
global and forum specific
global
Custom BBCodes
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Skin-Editor
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Smiley Packs
No
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Plugins
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features DjangoBB Vanilla GroupServer FUDforum
Statistics
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Polls
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Calendar
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Friendly URLs
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Data Management DjangoBB Vanilla GroupServer FUDforum
Available Importers
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
Pruning
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Archiving
No
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Export Formats
Proprietary or MySQLDump
XML, mbox
PDF (Adobe), ATOM, RSS, RDF, HTML
Export private messages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Lo-Fi View
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Optional
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