| General | Monkey Boards | GroupServer | OvBB | Phorum | Vanilla |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
0.4
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1.0β
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0.16a
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5.2.9a
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2.6.4
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| Release Date |
2007-02-19 (19 years ago)
|
2010 June 16
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2007-04-06 (19 years ago)
|
2008-10-13 (17 years ago)
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2018-10-29 (7 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2007-02-20 (19 years ago)
|
2010-06-21 (16 years ago)
|
2008-01-21 (18 years ago)
|
2008-10-16 (17 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
|
| Author |
James Greenwood
|
OnlineGroups.Net
|
Jonathon Freeman & Brian Otto
|
Phorum Dev Team
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| License |
GPL
|
GPL
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MIT
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The Phorum License (BSD)
|
GPL
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| License cost |
0
|
$0
|
0
|
0
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0
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
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| Thread-Type |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
|
| Setup | Monkey Boards | GroupServer | OvBB | Phorum | Vanilla |
| Installation method |
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
|
| Upgrade method |
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
manual
|
|
| Hosting available |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
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Yes
|
| Technology | Monkey Boards | GroupServer | OvBB | Phorum | Vanilla |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
Python & Zope
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
1
SQLite File Database |
1
PostgreSQL Database |
2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database |
2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
| Other Storage |
Zope Object Database
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| Source Code Repo | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Posts | Monkey Boards | GroupServer | OvBB | Phorum | Vanilla |
| BBCode |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| HTML |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
None
|
None
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Single
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Attachments |
No
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
| Tags |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
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| Forums | Monkey Boards | GroupServer | OvBB | Phorum | Vanilla |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
No
|
No
|
No
|
multiple levels
|
unlimited
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Trashcan Forum |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | Monkey Boards | GroupServer | OvBB | Phorum | Vanilla |
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Groups |
No
|
Multiple groups
|
One group only
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Suspension |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
Spam Assasin is used for email spam control.
|
Aksimet Plugin
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
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| Notification | Monkey Boards | GroupServer | OvBB | Phorum | Vanilla |
| RSS/ATOM |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
0
|
Integrated Chat
|
No
|
0
|
|
| Bookmarks |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Community | Monkey Boards | GroupServer | OvBB | Phorum | Vanilla |
| Avatars |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Rating/Karma System |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Signatures |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Users Online List |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Private Messaging |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Moderation | Monkey Boards | GroupServer | OvBB | Phorum | Vanilla |
| Moderators |
global
|
global and forums
|
global
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Search | Monkey Boards | GroupServer | OvBB | Phorum | Vanilla |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
No
|
Session tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
|
| Customization | Monkey Boards | GroupServer | OvBB | Phorum | Vanilla |
| Languages |
0
|
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 |
| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Templates |
global
|
global
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
|
| Custom BBCodes |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Skin-Editor |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Smiley Packs |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Monkey Boards | GroupServer | OvBB | Phorum | Vanilla |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Calendar |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Friendly URLs |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Data Management | Monkey Boards | GroupServer | OvBB | Phorum | Vanilla |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
||||
| Pruning |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Export Formats |
None (cannot be exported)
|
XML, mbox
|
No
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
|
| Export private messages |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| remove Monkey Boards | remove GroupServer | remove OvBB | remove Phorum | remove Vanilla |