| General | OvBB | TinyBB | Vanilla |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
0.16a
|
1.4
|
2.6.4
|
| Release Date |
2007-04-06 (19 years ago)
|
2011-02-01 (15 years ago)
|
2018-10-29 (8 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2008-01-21 (18 years ago)
|
2012-11-26 (13 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
|
| Author |
Jonathon Freeman & Brian Otto
|
Jake Steele
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
MIT
|
PHP license
|
GPL
|
| License cost |
0
|
$0
|
0
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
||
| Thread-Type |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Setup | OvBB | TinyBB | Vanilla |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
manual
|
wizard
|
| Upgrade method |
wizard
|
manual
|
manual
|
| Hosting available |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Technology | OvBB | TinyBB | Vanilla |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
| Other Storage | |||
| Source Code Repo | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Posts | OvBB | TinyBB | Vanilla |
| BBCode |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| HTML |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Nested
|
None
|
Single
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
No
|
Multiple files
|
| Tags |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
||
| Forums | OvBB | TinyBB | Vanilla |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
No
|
unlimited
|
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Trashcan Forum |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | OvBB | TinyBB | Vanilla |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Groups |
One group only
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Suspension |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
Plugins available
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
|
| Notification | OvBB | TinyBB | Vanilla |
| RSS/ATOM |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
No
|
Plugins available
|
|
| Bookmarks |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Community | OvBB | TinyBB | Vanilla |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Rating/Karma System |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Users Online List |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Moderation | OvBB | TinyBB | Vanilla |
| Moderators |
global
|
global, forums and threads
|
global, forums and threads
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Search | OvBB | TinyBB | Vanilla |
| Full-text search |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Session tracked
|
No
|
Database tracked
|
| Customization | OvBB | TinyBB | Vanilla |
| Languages |
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
|
Yes
|
| Templates |
global
|
None
|
global and forum specific
|
| Custom BBCodes |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Skin-Editor |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Smiley Packs |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | OvBB | TinyBB | Vanilla |
| Statistics |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Calendar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Friendly URLs |
No
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Data Management | OvBB | TinyBB | Vanilla |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
||
| Pruning |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Export Formats |
No
|
Plugins available
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
| Export private messages |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Lo-Fi View |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| remove OvBB | remove TinyBB | remove Vanilla |