| General | DjangoBB | Vanilla | GroupServer | FUDforum | Phorum |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
development
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2.6.4
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1.0β
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3.0.9
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5.2.9a
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| Release Date |
2018-10-29 (7 years ago)
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2010 June 16
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2018-05-18 (8 years ago)
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2008-10-13 (17 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2010-12-15 (15 years ago)
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2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
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2010-06-21 (15 years ago)
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2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
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2008-10-16 (17 years ago)
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| Author |
Alexey Afinogenov, Sergey Maranchuk
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
OnlineGroups.Net
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The FUDForum development team and user community.
|
Phorum Dev Team
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| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| License |
BSD
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GPL
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GPL
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GNU General Public License
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The Phorum License (BSD)
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| License cost |
0
|
0
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$0
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Free
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0
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| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
Classic forum list
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|||
| Thread-Type |
Flat
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Flat
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Flat
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Threaded or Flat
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Threaded or Flat
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| Setup | DjangoBB | Vanilla | GroupServer | FUDforum | Phorum |
| Installation method |
manual
|
wizard
|
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
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| Upgrade method |
manual
|
manual
|
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
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| Hosting available |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Technology | DjangoBB | Vanilla | GroupServer | FUDforum | Phorum |
| Programming Language |
Python
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PHP
|
Python & Zope
|
PHP
|
PHP
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| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| 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 |
2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database |
| Other Storage |
Zope Object Database
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| Source Code Repo | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Posts | DjangoBB | Vanilla | GroupServer | FUDforum | Phorum |
| BBCode |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| HTML |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Nested
|
Single
|
None
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Attachments |
One file
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
| Tags |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
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| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
No
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| Forums | DjangoBB | Vanilla | GroupServer | FUDforum | Phorum |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
No
|
unlimited
|
No
|
unlimited
|
multiple levels
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Trashcan Forum |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | DjangoBB | Vanilla | GroupServer | FUDforum | Phorum |
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| User Reports |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
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.
|
Aksimet Plugin
|
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| Notification | DjangoBB | Vanilla | GroupServer | FUDforum | Phorum |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
Integrated Chat
|
Yes - via ICQ, AIM, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, Jabber, Google Chat or Skype.
|
0
|
||
| Bookmarks |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Community | DjangoBB | Vanilla | GroupServer | FUDforum | Phorum |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| User Ranks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Rating/Karma System |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Users Online List |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Private Messaging |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Moderation | DjangoBB | Vanilla | GroupServer | FUDforum | Phorum |
| Moderators |
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Search | DjangoBB | Vanilla | GroupServer | FUDforum | Phorum |
| Full-text search |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
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| Customization | DjangoBB | Vanilla | GroupServer | FUDforum | Phorum |
| 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
|
0
|
| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global
|
global and forum specific
|
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Skin-Editor |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Smiley Packs |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | DjangoBB | Vanilla | GroupServer | FUDforum | Phorum |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Polls |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Friendly URLs |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Data Management | DjangoBB | Vanilla | GroupServer | FUDforum | Phorum |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
||||
| Pruning |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Export Formats |
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
XML, mbox
|
PDF (Adobe), ATOM, RSS, RDF, HTML
|
||
| Export private messages |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| remove DjangoBB | remove Vanilla | remove GroupServer | remove FUDforum | remove Phorum |