| General | EvilBoard | FluxBB | GroupServer | Phorum | phpBB | Vanilla | Viscacha |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
0.1a
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1.4.5
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1.0β
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5.2.9a
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3.0.8
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2.6.4
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0.8.1
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| Release Date |
2006-10-03 (19 years ago)
|
22/03/2011
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2010 June 16
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2008-10-13 (17 years ago)
|
2010-11-20 (15 years ago)
|
2018-10-29 (7 years ago)
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2010-12-04 (15 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2008-01-21 (18 years ago)
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2011-05-05 (14 years ago)
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2010-06-21 (15 years ago)
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2008-10-16 (17 years ago)
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2011-06-22 (14 years ago)
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2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
|
2010-12-04 (15 years ago)
|
| Author |
Arne-Christian Blystad
|
FluxBB development team
|
OnlineGroups.Net
|
Phorum Dev Team
|
The phpBB Group
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
The Viscacha Project
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| URL | |||||||
| Free and Open Source |
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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| License |
LGPL
|
GPL v2
|
GPL
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The Phorum License (BSD)
|
General Public License
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
| License cost |
0
|
$0
|
0
|
0.00
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0
|
0
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|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
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| Thread-Type |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Setup | EvilBoard | FluxBB | GroupServer | Phorum | phpBB | Vanilla | Viscacha |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
|
| Upgrade method |
wizard
|
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard with manual interactions
|
manual
|
wizard
|
|
| Hosting available |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Technology | EvilBoard | FluxBB | GroupServer | Phorum | phpBB | Vanilla | Viscacha |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
Python & Zope
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Data Storage |
1
MySQL Database |
3
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
1
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 |
| Other Storage |
Zope Object Database
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| Source Code Repo | |||||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||||
| Posts | EvilBoard | FluxBB | GroupServer | Phorum | phpBB | Vanilla | Viscacha |
| BBCode |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| HTML |
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
Patch
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Yes
|
Patch
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Quoting |
None
|
Nested
|
None
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Single
|
Nested
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Attachments |
No
|
No
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
| Tags |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
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| Forums | EvilBoard | FluxBB | GroupServer | Phorum | phpBB | Vanilla | Viscacha |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
No
|
No
|
No
|
multiple levels
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
| Last Post |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Trashcan Forum |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | EvilBoard | FluxBB | GroupServer | Phorum | phpBB | Vanilla | Viscacha |
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
One group only
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Suspension |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Other |
Spam Assasin is used for email spam control.
|
Aksimet Plugin
|
Plugin-based CAPTCHA system, Newly Registered Users permissions
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
E-Mail Protection
|
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| Notification | EvilBoard | FluxBB | GroupServer | Phorum | phpBB | Vanilla | Viscacha |
| RSS/ATOM |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
Integrated Chat
|
0
|
Jabber
|
No
|
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| Bookmarks |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Community | EvilBoard | FluxBB | GroupServer | Phorum | phpBB | Vanilla | Viscacha |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Rating/Karma System |
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Users Online List |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Moderation | EvilBoard | FluxBB | GroupServer | Phorum | phpBB | Vanilla | Viscacha |
| Moderators |
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
| Move Threads |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Close Threads |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Sticky Threads |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| Search | EvilBoard | FluxBB | GroupServer | Phorum | phpBB | Vanilla | Viscacha |
| Full-text search |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Session tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Session tracked
|
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| Customization | EvilBoard | FluxBB | GroupServer | Phorum | phpBB | Vanilla | Viscacha |
| Languages |
0
|
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 |
0
|
| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
None
|
CSS only
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global
|
|
| Custom BBCodes |
No
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Skin-Editor |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Smiley Packs |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | EvilBoard | FluxBB | GroupServer | Phorum | phpBB | Vanilla | Viscacha |
| Statistics |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
No
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Calendar |
No
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Friendly URLs |
No
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Data Management | EvilBoard | FluxBB | GroupServer | Phorum | phpBB | Vanilla | Viscacha |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
||||||
| Pruning |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Archiving |
No
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Export Formats |
XML, mbox
|
SQL Dumps in .sql, sql.gz, and .sql.bz2
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
HTML, SQL, PDF as Plugin
|
|||
| Export private messages |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Lo-Fi View |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| remove EvilBoard | remove FluxBB | remove GroupServer | remove Phorum | remove phpBB | remove Vanilla | remove Viscacha |