| General | idealBB | Phorum | Monkey Boards | BurningBoard | Vanilla |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
Ideal BB.Net Version 3.1.6
|
5.2.9a
|
0.4
|
4.1.11
|
2.6.4
|
| Release Date |
2006-12-04 (19 years ago)
|
2008-10-13 (17 years ago)
|
2007-02-19 (19 years ago)
|
2016-03-13 (10 years ago)
|
2018-10-29 (7 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2006-12-04 (19 years ago)
|
2008-10-16 (17 years ago)
|
2007-02-20 (19 years ago)
|
2016-05-30 (9 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
|
| Author |
Ideal Science, Inc.
|
Phorum Dev Team
|
James Greenwood
|
Woltlab GmbH
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| License |
The Phorum License (BSD)
|
GPL
|
commercial / visible source
|
GPL
|
|
| License cost |
$299 - $24,999
|
0
|
0
|
$89.99
|
0
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
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| Thread-Type |
Threaded
|
Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Setup | idealBB | Phorum | Monkey Boards | BurningBoard | Vanilla |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
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| Upgrade method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
manual
|
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| Hosting available |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Technology | idealBB | Phorum | Monkey Boards | BurningBoard | Vanilla |
| Programming Language |
ASP.Net, C #
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP5
|
PHP
|
| UTF-8 Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
1
MySQL Database |
2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database |
1
SQLite File Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
| Other Storage | |||||
| Source Code Repo | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Posts | idealBB | Phorum | Monkey Boards | BurningBoard | Vanilla |
| BBCode |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| HTML |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Single
|
Nested
|
None
|
Nested
|
Single
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
No
|
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 | idealBB | Phorum | Monkey Boards | BurningBoard | Vanilla |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
one level
|
multiple levels
|
No
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Trashcan Forum |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | idealBB | Phorum | Monkey Boards | BurningBoard | Vanilla |
| CAPTCHA |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
No
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
Aksimet Plugin
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
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| Notification | idealBB | Phorum | Monkey Boards | BurningBoard | Vanilla |
| RSS/ATOM |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
No
|
0
|
0
|
Plugin
|
|
| Bookmarks |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Community | idealBB | Phorum | Monkey Boards | BurningBoard | Vanilla |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Rating/Karma System |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Users Online List |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Moderation | idealBB | Phorum | Monkey Boards | BurningBoard | Vanilla |
| Moderators |
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Close Threads |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Search | idealBB | Phorum | Monkey Boards | BurningBoard | Vanilla |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
No
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
|
| Customization | idealBB | Phorum | Monkey Boards | BurningBoard | 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 |
global
|
global and forum specific
|
global
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Skin-Editor |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Smiley Packs |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Plugins |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | idealBB | Phorum | Monkey Boards | BurningBoard | Vanilla |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Calendar |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Friendly URLs |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Management | idealBB | Phorum | Monkey Boards | BurningBoard | Vanilla |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
||||
| Pruning |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Export Formats |
None (cannot be exported)
|
sql
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
||
| Export private messages |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| remove idealBB | remove Phorum | remove Monkey Boards | remove BurningBoard | remove Vanilla |