| General | FUDforum | Vanilla | Monkey Boards |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
3.0.9
|
2.6.4
|
0.4
|
| Release Date |
2018-05-18 (8 years ago)
|
2018-10-29 (7 years ago)
|
2007-02-19 (19 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
|
2007-02-20 (19 years ago)
|
| Author |
The FUDForum development team and user community.
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
James Greenwood
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GNU General Public License
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
| License cost |
Free
|
0
|
0
|
| Main View |
Classic forum list
|
Both, can be configured
|
|
| Thread-Type |
Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Setup | FUDforum | Vanilla | Monkey Boards |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
|
| Upgrade method |
wizard
|
manual
|
|
| Hosting available |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Technology | FUDforum | Vanilla | Monkey Boards |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
7
DB2 Database, Firebird Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
SQLite File Database |
| Other Storage | |||
| Source Code Repo | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Posts | FUDforum | Vanilla | Monkey Boards |
| BBCode |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| HTML |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Nested
|
Single
|
None
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
No
|
| Tags |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Mark as solved |
No
|
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
|
| Forums | FUDforum | Vanilla | Monkey Boards |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
No
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Trashcan Forum |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | FUDforum | Vanilla | Monkey Boards |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
No
|
| Flood Control |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Warnings |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Audit Logging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| User Reports |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Other |
Several others like SpamBot detection, prevent new users from posting links, etc.
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
|
| Notification | FUDforum | Vanilla | Monkey Boards |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
Yes - via ICQ, AIM, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, Jabber, Google Chat or Skype.
|
0
|
|
| Bookmarks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Community | FUDforum | Vanilla | Monkey Boards |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| User Ranks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Users Online List |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Custom profile fields |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Moderation | FUDforum | Vanilla | Monkey Boards |
| Moderators |
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
global
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Search | FUDforum | Vanilla | Monkey Boards |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
No
|
| Customization | FUDforum | Vanilla | Monkey Boards |
| 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
|
| Mobile View |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
global
|
global and forum specific
|
global
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Skin-Editor |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Smiley Packs |
Patch
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | FUDforum | Vanilla | Monkey Boards |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Calendar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Data Management | FUDforum | Vanilla | Monkey Boards |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
||
| Pruning |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Archiving |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Export Formats |
PDF (Adobe), ATOM, RSS, RDF, HTML
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
None (cannot be exported)
|
| Export private messages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
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