| General | Unclassified NewsBoard | Phorum | Invision Power Board | FUDforum | Vanilla |
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| Version |
2015-07-13
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5.2.9a
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3.2.3
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3.0.9
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2.6.4
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| Release Date |
2015-07-13 (10 years ago)
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2008-10-13 (17 years ago)
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2011-10-18 (14 years ago)
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2018-05-18 (8 years ago)
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2018-10-29 (7 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
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2008-10-16 (17 years ago)
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2012-02-07 (14 years ago)
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2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
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2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
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| Author |
Yves Goergen
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Phorum Dev Team
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Invision Power Services
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The FUDForum development team and user community.
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Vanilla Forums Inc
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| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
GPL
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The Phorum License (BSD)
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Commercial
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GNU General Public License
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GPL
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| License cost |
0
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0
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License from $175 / Hosted from $5 per month
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Free
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0
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| Main View |
Classic forum list
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Classic forum list
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Both, can be configured
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| Thread-Type |
Flat
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Threaded or Flat
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Flat
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Threaded or Flat
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Flat
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| Setup | Unclassified NewsBoard | Phorum | Invision Power Board | FUDforum | Vanilla |
| Installation method |
manual
|
wizard
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wizard
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wizard
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wizard
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| Upgrade method |
manual
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wizard
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wizard
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wizard
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manual
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| Hosting available |
No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Technology | Unclassified NewsBoard | Phorum | Invision Power Board | FUDforum | Vanilla |
| Programming Language |
PHP 5
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PHP
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PHP 5.2+
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PHP
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PHP
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| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Data Storage |
1
MySQL Database |
2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
7
DB2 Database, Firebird Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
1
MySQL Database |
| Other Storage | |||||
| Source Code Repo | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Posts | Unclassified NewsBoard | Phorum | Invision Power Board | FUDforum | Vanilla |
| BBCode |
Yes
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Optional
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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| HTML |
No
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Optional
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Emoticons |
Yes
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Optional
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
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Optional
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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| WYSIWYG Editor |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
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| Quoting |
Nested
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Nested
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Nested
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Nested
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Single
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| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
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Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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| Attachments |
One file
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Multiple files
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Multiple files
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Multiple files
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Multiple files
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| Tags |
No
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Unknown
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Unknown
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Unknown
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Yes
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| Mark as solved |
No
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No
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A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
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| Forums | Unclassified NewsBoard | Phorum | Invision Power Board | FUDforum | Vanilla |
| Categories |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Subforums |
unlimited
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multiple levels
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unlimited
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unlimited
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unlimited
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| Last Post |
Optional
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Redirect Forums |
Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Trashcan Forum |
No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Anti-Spam and Security | Unclassified NewsBoard | Phorum | Invision Power Board | FUDforum | Vanilla |
| CAPTCHA |
Optional
|
Optional
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Groups |
Multiple groups
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Multiple groups
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Multiple groups
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Multiple groups
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Multiple groups
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| Flood Control |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| ACLs |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Blacklist |
No
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Warnings |
No
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Plugin
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Plugin
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| Suspension |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Bans |
No
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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| IP-Block |
Optional
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Audit Logging |
Yes
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Optional
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| User Reports |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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| Other |
Aksimet Plugin
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Spam Monitoring Service, Flag As Spammer, Question & Answer System
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Several others like SpamBot detection, prevent new users from posting links, etc.
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Community Curation & SPAM removal
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| Notification | Unclassified NewsBoard | Phorum | Invision Power Board | FUDforum | Vanilla |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Instant Messaging |
Jabber
|
0
|
No
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Yes - via ICQ, AIM, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, Jabber, Google Chat or Skype.
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| Bookmarks |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Community | Unclassified NewsBoard | Phorum | Invision Power Board | FUDforum | Vanilla |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| User Ranks |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Rating/Karma System |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Signatures |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| Users Online List |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Plugin
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| Private Messaging |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Custom profile fields |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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| Moderation | Unclassified NewsBoard | Phorum | Invision Power Board | FUDforum | Vanilla |
| Moderators |
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Split Threads |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| Close Threads |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Shadow Topics |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Important Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Search | Unclassified NewsBoard | Phorum | Invision Power Board | FUDforum | Vanilla |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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| Author search |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
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| Customization | Unclassified NewsBoard | Phorum | Invision Power Board | FUDforum | Vanilla |
| Languages |
13
Czech, German, English, French, Hungarian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Chinese |
0
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0
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0
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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 |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Templates |
global
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global
|
global and forum specific
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Skin-Editor |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Smiley Packs |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Special Features | Unclassified NewsBoard | Phorum | Invision Power Board | FUDforum | Vanilla |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Calendar |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Data Management | Unclassified NewsBoard | Phorum | Invision Power Board | FUDforum | Vanilla |
| Available Importers |
Invision Board 1.1.2, phpBB 2.0.x, Woltlab Burning Board 1.x
|
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
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| Pruning |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Archiving |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Export Formats |
none
|
SQL
|
PDF (Adobe), ATOM, RSS, RDF, HTML
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
|
| Export private messages |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Lo-Fi View |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| remove Unclassified NewsBoard | remove Phorum | remove Invision Power Board | remove FUDforum | remove Vanilla |