| General | Jive Forums | Vanilla | Monkey Boards | Viscacha |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
5.0.5
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2.6.4
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0.4
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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)
|
2007-02-19 (19 years ago)
|
2010-12-04 (15 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2006-12-06 (19 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
|
2007-02-20 (19 years ago)
|
2010-12-04 (15 years ago)
|
| Author |
Jive Software
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
James Greenwood
|
The Viscacha Project
|
| 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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| License |
Per User
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
GPL
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| License cost |
$1,950 to $19,950
|
0
|
0
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0
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| Main View |
Both, can be configured
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| Thread-Type |
Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
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Flat
|
Flat
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| Setup | Jive Forums | Vanilla | Monkey Boards | Viscacha |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
wizard
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| Upgrade method |
manual
|
wizard
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| Hosting available |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Technology | Jive Forums | Vanilla | Monkey Boards | Viscacha |
| Programming Language |
Java, J2EE, JSP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| 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
SQLite File Database |
1
MySQL Database |
| Other Storage | ||||
| Source Code Repo | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Posts | Jive Forums | Vanilla | Monkey Boards | Viscacha |
| BBCode |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| HTML |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Nested
|
Single
|
None
|
Nested
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
No
|
Multiple files
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| Tags |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
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| Forums | Jive Forums | Vanilla | Monkey Boards | Viscacha |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
No
|
unlimited
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Trashcan Forum |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | Jive Forums | Vanilla | Monkey Boards | Viscacha |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
No
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| IP-Block |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
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| Other |
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
E-Mail Protection
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| Notification | Jive Forums | Vanilla | Monkey Boards | Viscacha |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
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| Instant Messaging |
No
|
0
|
No
|
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| Bookmarks |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Community | Jive Forums | Vanilla | Monkey Boards | Viscacha |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Users Online List |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Moderation | Jive Forums | Vanilla | Monkey Boards | Viscacha |
| Moderators |
global, forums and threads
|
global, forums and threads
|
global
|
global and forums
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Search | Jive Forums | Vanilla | Monkey Boards | 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
|
No
|
Session tracked
|
| Customization | Jive Forums | Vanilla | Monkey Boards | 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
|
global
|
| Custom BBCodes |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Skin-Editor |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Smiley Packs |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Jive Forums | Vanilla | Monkey Boards | Viscacha |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Friendly URLs |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Data Management | Jive Forums | Vanilla | Monkey Boards | Viscacha |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
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| Pruning |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Archiving |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Export Formats |
XML
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
None (cannot be exported)
|
HTML, SQL, PDF as Plugin
|
| Export private messages |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Lo-Fi View |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
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