| General | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Monkey Boards | GroupServer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.6.4
|
3.2.3
|
0.4
|
1.0β
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| Release Date |
2018-10-29 (7 years ago)
|
2011-10-18 (14 years ago)
|
2007-02-19 (19 years ago)
|
2010 June 16
|
| Last Update here |
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
|
2012-02-07 (14 years ago)
|
2007-02-20 (19 years ago)
|
2010-06-21 (15 years ago)
|
| Author |
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
Invision Power Services
|
James Greenwood
|
OnlineGroups.Net
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| License |
GPL
|
Commercial
|
GPL
|
GPL
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| License cost |
0
|
License from $175 / Hosted from $5 per month
|
0
|
$0
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
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| Thread-Type |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
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| Setup | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Monkey Boards | GroupServer |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
manual
|
|
| Upgrade method |
manual
|
wizard
|
manual
|
|
| Hosting available |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Technology | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Monkey Boards | GroupServer |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP 5.2+
|
PHP
|
Python & Zope
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
SQLite File Database |
1
PostgreSQL Database |
| Other Storage |
Zope Object Database
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| Source Code Repo | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Posts | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Monkey Boards | GroupServer |
| BBCode |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| HTML |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Emoticons |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Single
|
Nested
|
None
|
None
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
No
|
Multiple files
|
| Tags |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
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| Forums | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Monkey Boards | GroupServer |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
No
|
No
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Trashcan Forum |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Monkey Boards | GroupServer |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
No
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Audit Logging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Other |
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
Spam Monitoring Service, Flag As Spammer, Question & Answer System
|
Spam Assasin is used for email spam control.
|
|
| Notification | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Monkey Boards | GroupServer |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
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| Instant Messaging |
No
|
0
|
Integrated Chat
|
|
| Bookmarks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Community | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Monkey Boards | GroupServer |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Signatures |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Users Online List |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Moderation | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Monkey Boards | GroupServer |
| Moderators |
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
global
|
global and forums
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Split Threads |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Shadow Topics |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Monkey Boards | GroupServer |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
No
|
|
| Customization | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Monkey Boards | GroupServer |
| Languages |
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
|
0
|
0
|
| Mobile View |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global
|
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Skin-Editor |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Smiley Packs |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Special Features | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Monkey Boards | GroupServer |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Data Management | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Monkey Boards | GroupServer |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
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| Pruning |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Archiving |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Export Formats |
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
SQL
|
None (cannot be exported)
|
XML, mbox
|
| Export private messages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
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