| General | Invision Power Board | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | FUDforum | EvilBoard |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
3.2.3
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2.6.4
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2015-07-13
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3.0.9
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0.1a
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| Release Date |
2011-10-18 (14 years ago)
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2018-10-29 (7 years ago)
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2015-07-13 (10 years ago)
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2018-05-18 (8 years ago)
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2006-10-03 (19 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2012-02-07 (14 years ago)
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2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
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2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
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2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
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2008-01-21 (18 years ago)
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| Author |
Invision Power Services
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Vanilla Forums Inc
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Yves Goergen
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The FUDForum development team and user community.
|
Arne-Christian Blystad
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| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
No
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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 |
Commercial
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GPL
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GPL
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GNU General Public License
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LGPL
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| License cost |
License from $175 / Hosted from $5 per month
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0
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0
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Free
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| Main View |
Both, can be configured
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Classic forum list
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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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Flat
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| Setup | Invision Power Board | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | FUDforum | EvilBoard |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
wizard
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manual
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wizard
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| Upgrade method |
wizard
|
manual
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manual
|
wizard
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| Hosting available |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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| Technology | Invision Power Board | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | FUDforum | EvilBoard |
| Programming Language |
PHP 5.2+
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PHP
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PHP 5
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PHP
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PHP
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| UTF-8 Support |
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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| Data Storage |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
7
DB2 Database, Firebird Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
1
MySQL Database |
| Other Storage | |||||
| Source Code Repo | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Posts | Invision Power Board | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | FUDforum | EvilBoard |
| BBCode |
Yes
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Plugin
|
Yes
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Yes
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No
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| HTML |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
|
No
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| Emoticons |
Yes
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Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| WYSIWYG Editor |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| Quoting |
Nested
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Single
|
Nested
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Nested
|
None
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| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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Yes
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No
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| Attachments |
Multiple files
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Multiple files
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One file
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Multiple files
|
No
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| Tags |
Unknown
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Yes
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No
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Unknown
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Unknown
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| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
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No
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No
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| Forums | Invision Power Board | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | FUDforum | EvilBoard |
| Categories |
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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| Subforums |
unlimited
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unlimited
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unlimited
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unlimited
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No
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| Last Post |
Yes
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Yes
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Optional
|
Yes
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No
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| Redirect Forums |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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| Trashcan Forum |
Yes
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Yes
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No
|
Yes
|
No
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| Anti-Spam and Security | Invision Power Board | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | FUDforum | EvilBoard |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
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Optional
|
Yes
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No
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| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
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Multiple groups
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Multiple groups
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Multiple groups
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| Flood Control |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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No
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| ACLs |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
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No
|
Yes
|
No
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| Warnings |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
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| Suspension |
Yes
|
Yes
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No
|
Yes
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No
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| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
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No
|
Yes
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Yes
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| IP-Block |
Yes
|
Yes
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Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Audit Logging |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Unknown
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| User Reports |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
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Yes
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Unknown
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| Other |
Spam Monitoring Service, Flag As Spammer, Question & Answer System
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Community Curation & SPAM removal
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Several others like SpamBot detection, prevent new users from posting links, etc.
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| Notification | Invision Power Board | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | FUDforum | EvilBoard |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
|
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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| Instant Messaging |
No
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Jabber
|
Yes - via ICQ, AIM, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, Jabber, Google Chat or Skype.
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| Bookmarks |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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| Community | Invision Power Board | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | FUDforum | EvilBoard |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| User Ranks |
Yes
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Yes
|
No
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Rating/Karma System |
Yes
|
Yes
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No
|
Yes
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No
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| Signatures |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Users Online List |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
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No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Custom profile fields |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
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No
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| Moderation | Invision Power Board | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | FUDforum | EvilBoard |
| Moderators |
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
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| Move Threads |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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| Split Threads |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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No
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| Shadow Topics |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Important Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Search | Invision Power Board | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | FUDforum | EvilBoard |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
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| Customization | Invision Power Board | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | FUDforum | EvilBoard |
| 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 |
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Czech, German, English, French, Hungarian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Chinese |
0
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0
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| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global
|
global
|
None
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Skin-Editor |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Smiley Packs |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Invision Power Board | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | FUDforum | EvilBoard |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Polls |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Calendar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
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| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Data Management | Invision Power Board | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | FUDforum | EvilBoard |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
Invision Board 1.1.2, phpBB 2.0.x, Woltlab Burning Board 1.x
|
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| Pruning |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Archiving |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Export Formats |
SQL
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
none
|
PDF (Adobe), ATOM, RSS, RDF, HTML
|
|
| Export private messages |
Yes
|
Yes
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No
|
Yes
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No
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| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
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| remove Invision Power Board | remove Vanilla | remove Unclassified NewsBoard | remove FUDforum | remove EvilBoard |