| General | Unclassified NewsBoard | XMB | Phorum | Invision Power Board | Vanilla |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2015-07-13
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1.9.11
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5.2.9a
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3.2.3
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2.6.4
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| Release Date |
2015-07-13 (10 years ago)
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Febuary 28, 2009
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2008-10-13 (17 years ago)
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2011-10-18 (14 years ago)
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2018-10-29 (7 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
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2012-03-02 (14 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)
|
| Author |
Yves Goergen
|
The XMB Group
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Phorum Dev Team
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Invision Power Services
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
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| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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| License |
GPL
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General Public License
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The Phorum License (BSD)
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Commercial
|
GPL
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| License cost |
0
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0.00
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0
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License from $175 / Hosted from $5 per month
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0
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| Main View |
Classic forum list
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Both, can be configured
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| Thread-Type |
Flat
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Flat
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Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
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Flat
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| Setup | Unclassified NewsBoard | XMB | Phorum | Invision Power Board | Vanilla |
| Installation method |
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
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| Upgrade method |
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
manual
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| Hosting available |
No
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No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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| Technology | Unclassified NewsBoard | XMB | Phorum | Invision Power Board | Vanilla |
| Programming Language |
PHP 5
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php
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PHP
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PHP 5.2+
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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 |
1
MySQL Database |
2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
| Other Storage | |||||
| Source Code Repo | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Posts | Unclassified NewsBoard | XMB | Phorum | Invision Power Board | Vanilla |
| BBCode |
Yes
|
Yes
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Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| HTML |
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| WYSIWYG Editor |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| Quoting |
Nested
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Single
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| Attachments |
One file
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
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Multiple files
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Multiple files
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| Tags |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
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Unknown
|
Yes
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| Mark as solved |
No
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A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
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| Forums | Unclassified NewsBoard | XMB | Phorum | Invision Power Board | Vanilla |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Subforums |
unlimited
|
one level
|
multiple levels
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
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| Last Post |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Redirect Forums |
Yes
|
No
|
No
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Trashcan Forum |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Anti-Spam and Security | Unclassified NewsBoard | XMB | Phorum | Invision Power Board | Vanilla |
| CAPTCHA |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Suspension |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| IP-Block |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
Aksimet Plugin
|
Spam Monitoring Service, Flag As Spammer, Question & Answer System
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
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| Notification | Unclassified NewsBoard | XMB | Phorum | Invision Power Board | Vanilla |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
Jabber
|
0
|
No
|
||
| Bookmarks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Community | Unclassified NewsBoard | XMB | Phorum | Invision Power Board | Vanilla |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Rating/Karma System |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Users Online List |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Private Messaging |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Moderation | Unclassified NewsBoard | XMB | Phorum | Invision Power Board | Vanilla |
| Moderators |
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Search | Unclassified NewsBoard | XMB | Phorum | Invision Power Board | Vanilla |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Session tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
| Customization | Unclassified NewsBoard | XMB | Phorum | Invision Power Board | Vanilla |
| Languages |
13
Czech, German, English, French, Hungarian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Chinese |
0
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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 |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Templates |
global
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Skin-Editor |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Smiley Packs |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Unclassified NewsBoard | XMB | Phorum | Invision Power Board | Vanilla |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Management | Unclassified NewsBoard | XMB | Phorum | Invision Power Board | 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
|
|||
| Pruning |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Export Formats |
none
|
SQL
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
||
| Export private messages |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Lo-Fi View |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
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