| General | Jive Forums | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Viscacha |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
5.0.5
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2.6.4
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3.2.3
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0.8.1
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| Release Date |
2006-08-30 (19 years ago)
|
2018-10-29 (7 years ago)
|
2011-10-18 (14 years ago)
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2010-12-04 (15 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2006-12-06 (19 years ago)
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2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
|
2012-02-07 (14 years ago)
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2010-12-04 (15 years ago)
|
| Author |
Jive Software
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
Invision Power Services
|
The Viscacha Project
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
No
|
Yes
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No
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Yes
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| License |
Per User
|
GPL
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Commercial
|
GPL
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| License cost |
$1,950 to $19,950
|
0
|
License from $175 / Hosted from $5 per month
|
0
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| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
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| Thread-Type |
Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
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| Setup | Jive Forums | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Viscacha |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
|
| Upgrade method |
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
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| Hosting available |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Technology | Jive Forums | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Viscacha |
| Programming Language |
Java, J2EE, JSP
|
PHP
|
PHP 5.2+
|
PHP
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| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Data Storage |
5
DB2 Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
| Other Storage | ||||
| Source Code Repo | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Posts | Jive Forums | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Viscacha |
| BBCode |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Nested
|
Single
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
| Tags |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
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| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
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| Forums | Jive Forums | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Viscacha |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Trashcan Forum |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | Jive Forums | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Viscacha |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Other |
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
Spam Monitoring Service, Flag As Spammer, Question & Answer System
|
E-Mail Protection
|
|
| Notification | Jive Forums | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Viscacha |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
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| Instant Messaging |
No
|
No
|
No
|
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| Bookmarks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Community | Jive Forums | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Viscacha |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Users Online List |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Moderation | Jive Forums | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Viscacha |
| Moderators |
global, forums and threads
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| Search | Jive Forums | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Viscacha |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Session tracked
|
| Customization | Jive Forums | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Viscacha |
| 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
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0
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| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global
|
| Custom BBCodes |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Skin-Editor |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Smiley Packs |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Jive Forums | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Viscacha |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Friendly URLs |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Data Management | Jive Forums | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Viscacha |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
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| Pruning |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Archiving |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Export Formats |
XML
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
SQL
|
HTML, SQL, PDF as Plugin
|
| Export private messages |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Lo-Fi View |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
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