| General | Jitbit AspNetForum | GroupServer | Phorum | Vanilla | OvBB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
6.6.0
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1.0β
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5.2.9a
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2.6.4
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0.16a
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| Release Date |
2010-05-05 (16 years ago)
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2010 June 16
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2008-10-13 (17 years ago)
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2018-10-29 (7 years ago)
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2007-04-06 (19 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2010-05-06 (16 years ago)
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2010-06-21 (16 years ago)
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2008-10-16 (17 years ago)
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2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
|
2008-01-21 (18 years ago)
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| Author |
Jitbit Software
|
OnlineGroups.Net
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Phorum Dev Team
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
Jonathon Freeman & Brian Otto
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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 |
Proprietary
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GPL
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The Phorum License (BSD)
|
GPL
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MIT
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| License cost |
$139
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$0
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0
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0
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0
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
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| Thread-Type |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Setup | Jitbit AspNetForum | GroupServer | Phorum | Vanilla | OvBB |
| Installation method |
manual
|
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
| Upgrade method |
manual
|
manual
|
wizard
|
manual
|
wizard
|
| Hosting available |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
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| Technology | Jitbit AspNetForum | GroupServer | Phorum | Vanilla | OvBB |
| Programming Language |
C#
|
Python & Zope
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
3
Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database |
1
PostgreSQL Database |
2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database |
| Other Storage |
MS Access
|
Zope Object Database
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| Source Code Repo | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Posts | Jitbit AspNetForum | GroupServer | Phorum | Vanilla | OvBB |
| BBCode |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| HTML |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Nested
|
None
|
Nested
|
Single
|
Nested
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
| Tags |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
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| Forums | Jitbit AspNetForum | GroupServer | Phorum | Vanilla | OvBB |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
unlimited
|
No
|
multiple levels
|
unlimited
|
No
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Trashcan Forum |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | Jitbit AspNetForum | GroupServer | Phorum | Vanilla | OvBB |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
One group only
|
| Flood Control |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Audit Logging |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| User Reports |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Other |
Spam Assasin is used for email spam control.
|
Aksimet Plugin
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
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| Notification | Jitbit AspNetForum | GroupServer | Phorum | Vanilla | OvBB |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
Private messaging with instant notifications
|
Integrated Chat
|
0
|
No
|
|
| Bookmarks |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Community | Jitbit AspNetForum | GroupServer | Phorum | Vanilla | OvBB |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Users Online List |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Moderation | Jitbit AspNetForum | GroupServer | Phorum | Vanilla | OvBB |
| Moderators |
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
global
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Search | Jitbit AspNetForum | GroupServer | Phorum | Vanilla | OvBB |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Session tracked
|
|
| Customization | Jitbit AspNetForum | GroupServer | Phorum | Vanilla | OvBB |
| Languages |
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
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| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
CSS only
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global
|
|
| Custom BBCodes |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Skin-Editor |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Smiley Packs |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Jitbit AspNetForum | GroupServer | Phorum | Vanilla | OvBB |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Polls |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Calendar |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Data Management | Jitbit AspNetForum | GroupServer | Phorum | Vanilla | OvBB |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
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| Pruning |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Archiving |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Export Formats |
XML, mbox
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
No
|
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| Export private messages |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
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