| General | UltraBB | OvBB | Vanilla |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.15
|
0.16a
|
2.6.4
|
| Release Date |
2026-04-16 (2 months ago)
|
2007-04-06 (19 years ago)
|
2018-10-29 (7 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2008-07-01 (17 years ago)
|
2008-01-21 (18 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
|
| Author |
Jim Hale
|
Jonathon Freeman & Brian Otto
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
Lifetime
|
MIT
|
GPL
|
| License cost |
$99.00
|
0
|
0
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
||
| Thread-Type |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Setup | UltraBB | OvBB | Vanilla |
| Installation method |
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
| Upgrade method |
manual
|
wizard
|
manual
|
| Hosting available |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Technology | UltraBB | OvBB | Vanilla |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
1
MySQL Database |
2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
| Other Storage | |||
| Source Code Repo | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Posts | UltraBB | OvBB | Vanilla |
| BBCode |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| HTML |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Nested
|
Nested
|
Single
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Attachments |
One file
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
| Tags |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
||
| Forums | UltraBB | OvBB | Vanilla |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
one level
|
No
|
unlimited
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Trashcan Forum |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | UltraBB | OvBB | Vanilla |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
One group only
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
E-mail blocking
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
|
| Notification | UltraBB | OvBB | Vanilla |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
No
|
||
| Bookmarks |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Community | UltraBB | OvBB | Vanilla |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Users Online List |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Moderation | UltraBB | OvBB | Vanilla |
| Moderators |
global and forums
|
global
|
global, forums and threads
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Search | UltraBB | OvBB | Vanilla |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
No
|
Session tracked
|
Database tracked
|
| Customization | UltraBB | OvBB | 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
|
global
|
global and forum specific
|
| Custom BBCodes |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Skin-Editor |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Smiley Packs |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | UltraBB | OvBB | Vanilla |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Calendar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Data Management | UltraBB | OvBB | Vanilla |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
||
| Pruning |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Export Formats |
No
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
|
| Export private messages |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Lo-Fi View |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| remove UltraBB | remove OvBB | remove Vanilla |