| General | TinyBB | GroupServer | Phorum | OvBB | Vanilla |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.4
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1.0β
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5.2.9a
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0.16a
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2.6.4
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| Release Date |
2011-02-01 (15 years ago)
|
2010 June 16
|
2008-10-13 (17 years ago)
|
2007-04-06 (19 years ago)
|
2018-10-29 (7 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2012-11-26 (13 years ago)
|
2010-06-21 (16 years ago)
|
2008-10-16 (17 years ago)
|
2008-01-21 (18 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
|
| Author |
Jake Steele
|
OnlineGroups.Net
|
Phorum Dev Team
|
Jonathon Freeman & Brian Otto
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
PHP license
|
GPL
|
The Phorum License (BSD)
|
MIT
|
GPL
|
| License cost |
$0
|
$0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
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| Thread-Type |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Setup | TinyBB | GroupServer | Phorum | OvBB | Vanilla |
| Installation method |
manual
|
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
| Upgrade method |
manual
|
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
manual
|
| Hosting available |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Technology | TinyBB | GroupServer | Phorum | OvBB | Vanilla |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
Python & Zope
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
1
MySQL 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 | TinyBB | GroupServer | Phorum | OvBB | Vanilla |
| BBCode |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| HTML |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
None
|
None
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Single
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
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
|
||||
| Forums | TinyBB | GroupServer | Phorum | OvBB | Vanilla |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
No
|
multiple levels
|
No
|
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 | TinyBB | GroupServer | Phorum | OvBB | Vanilla |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
One group only
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Suspension |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
Plugins available
|
Spam Assasin is used for email spam control.
|
Aksimet Plugin
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
|
| Notification | TinyBB | GroupServer | Phorum | OvBB | Vanilla |
| RSS/ATOM |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
Plugins available
|
Integrated Chat
|
0
|
No
|
|
| Bookmarks |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Community | TinyBB | GroupServer | Phorum | OvBB | Vanilla |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Signatures |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Users Online List |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Private Messaging |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Moderation | TinyBB | GroupServer | Phorum | OvBB | Vanilla |
| Moderators |
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global
|
global, forums and threads
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Sticky Threads |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Search | TinyBB | GroupServer | Phorum | OvBB | Vanilla |
| Full-text search |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
No
|
Database tracked
|
Session tracked
|
Database tracked
|
|
| Customization | TinyBB | GroupServer | Phorum | OvBB | 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 |
None
|
global and forum specific
|
global
|
global and forum specific
|
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Skin-Editor |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Smiley Packs |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | TinyBB | GroupServer | Phorum | OvBB | Vanilla |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Friendly URLs |
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Data Management | TinyBB | GroupServer | Phorum | OvBB | Vanilla |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
||||
| Pruning |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Export Formats |
Plugins available
|
XML, mbox
|
No
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
|
| Export private messages |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Lo-Fi View |
No
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| remove TinyBB | remove GroupServer | remove Phorum | remove OvBB | remove Vanilla |