| General | Invision Power Board | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
3.2.3
|
2015-07-13
|
2.6.4
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| Release Date |
2011-10-18 (14 years ago)
|
2015-07-13 (10 years ago)
|
2018-10-29 (7 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2012-02-07 (14 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
|
| Author |
Invision Power Services
|
Yves Goergen
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
Commercial
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
| License cost |
License from $175 / Hosted from $5 per month
|
0
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0
|
| Main View |
Classic forum list
|
Both, can be configured
|
|
| Thread-Type |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Setup | Invision Power Board | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
manual
|
wizard
|
| Upgrade method |
wizard
|
manual
|
manual
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| Hosting available |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Technology | Invision Power Board | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla |
| Programming Language |
PHP 5.2+
|
PHP 5
|
PHP
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Data Storage |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
| Other Storage | |||
| Source Code Repo | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Posts | Invision Power Board | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla |
| BBCode |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| HTML |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Nested
|
Nested
|
Single
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
One file
|
Multiple files
|
| Tags |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Mark as solved |
No
|
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
|
| Forums | Invision Power Board | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Subforums |
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
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| Last Post |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Trashcan Forum |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | Invision Power Board | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
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| Audit Logging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
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| Other |
Spam Monitoring Service, Flag As Spammer, Question & Answer System
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
|
| Notification | Invision Power Board | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
No
|
Jabber
|
|
| Bookmarks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Community | Invision Power Board | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Users Online List |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Moderation | Invision Power Board | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla |
| Moderators |
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
global, forums and threads
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Search | Invision Power Board | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
| Customization | Invision Power Board | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla |
| Languages |
0
|
13
Czech, German, English, French, Hungarian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Chinese |
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
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Templates |
global and forum specific
|
global
|
global and forum specific
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Skin-Editor |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Smiley Packs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Invision Power Board | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Calendar |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Management | Invision Power Board | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla |
| Available Importers |
Invision Board 1.1.2, phpBB 2.0.x, Woltlab Burning Board 1.x
|
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
|
| Pruning |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Export Formats |
SQL
|
none
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
| Export private messages |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
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