| General | UltraBB | NoNonsense Forum | Vanilla | JForum |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.15
|
18
|
2.6.4
|
2.1.8
|
| Release Date |
2026-04-16 (2 months ago)
|
2012-03-05 (14 years ago)
|
2018-10-29 (7 years ago)
|
2008-11-01 (17 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2008-07-01 (17 years ago)
|
2012-03-05 (14 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
|
2008-01-02 (18 years ago)
|
| Author |
Jim Hale
|
Kroc Camen
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
Rafael Steil
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
Lifetime
|
CC-BY 3
|
GPL
|
BSD
|
| License cost |
$99.00
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
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| Thread-Type |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Setup | UltraBB | NoNonsense Forum | Vanilla | JForum |
| Installation method |
manual
|
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
| Upgrade method |
manual
|
manual
|
manual
|
manual
|
| Hosting available |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Technology | UltraBB | NoNonsense Forum | Vanilla | JForum |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
Java
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
1
MySQL Database |
0
|
1
MySQL Database |
3
MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database |
| Other Storage |
HSQLDB
|
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| Source Code Repo | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Posts | UltraBB | NoNonsense Forum | Vanilla | JForum |
| BBCode |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| HTML |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Nested
|
Nested
|
Single
|
Nested
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Attachments |
One file
|
No
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
| Tags |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
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| Forums | UltraBB | NoNonsense Forum | Vanilla | JForum |
| Categories |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
one level
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
No
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Trashcan Forum |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | UltraBB | NoNonsense Forum | Vanilla | JForum |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
No
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Warnings |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| User Reports |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Other |
E-mail blocking
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
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| Notification | UltraBB | NoNonsense Forum | Vanilla | JForum |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
0
|
|||
| Bookmarks |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Community | UltraBB | NoNonsense Forum | Vanilla | JForum |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Users Online List |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Moderation | UltraBB | NoNonsense Forum | Vanilla | JForum |
| Moderators |
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Search | UltraBB | NoNonsense Forum | Vanilla | JForum |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
No
|
No
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
| Customization | UltraBB | NoNonsense Forum | Vanilla | JForum |
| 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 |
0
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| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
global
|
global
|
global and forum specific
|
global
|
| Custom BBCodes |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Skin-Editor |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Smiley Packs |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | UltraBB | NoNonsense Forum | Vanilla | JForum |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Calendar |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Management | UltraBB | NoNonsense Forum | Vanilla | JForum |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
|||
| Pruning |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Archiving |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Export Formats |
RSS
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
||
| Export private messages |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Lo-Fi View |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| remove UltraBB | remove NoNonsense Forum | remove Vanilla | remove JForum |