| General | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Unclassified NewsBoard | GroupServer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.6.4
|
3.2.3
|
2015-07-13
|
1.0β
|
| Release Date |
2018-10-29 (7 years ago)
|
2011-10-18 (14 years ago)
|
2015-07-13 (10 years ago)
|
2010 June 16
|
| Last Update here |
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
|
2012-02-07 (14 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
|
2010-06-21 (16 years ago)
|
| Author |
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
Invision Power Services
|
Yves Goergen
|
OnlineGroups.Net
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
Commercial
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
| License cost |
0
|
License from $175 / Hosted from $5 per month
|
0
|
$0
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
Classic forum list
|
||
| Thread-Type |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Setup | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Unclassified NewsBoard | GroupServer |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
manual
|
manual
|
| Upgrade method |
manual
|
wizard
|
manual
|
manual
|
| Hosting available |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Technology | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Unclassified NewsBoard | GroupServer |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP 5.2+
|
PHP 5
|
Python & Zope
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
PostgreSQL Database |
| Other Storage |
Zope Object Database
|
|||
| Source Code Repo | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Posts | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Unclassified NewsBoard | GroupServer |
| BBCode |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| HTML |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticons |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Single
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
None
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
One file
|
Multiple files
|
| Tags |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
No
|
||
| Forums | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Unclassified NewsBoard | GroupServer |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
No
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Trashcan Forum |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Unclassified NewsBoard | GroupServer |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Audit Logging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
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 | Unclassified NewsBoard | GroupServer |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
No
|
Jabber
|
Integrated Chat
|
|
| Bookmarks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Community | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Unclassified NewsBoard | GroupServer |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Signatures |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Users Online List |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Moderation | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Unclassified NewsBoard | GroupServer |
| Moderators |
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Split Threads |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Shadow Topics |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Search | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Unclassified NewsBoard | 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
|
Database tracked
|
|
| Customization | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Unclassified NewsBoard | 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
|
13
Czech, German, English, French, Hungarian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Chinese |
0
|
| Mobile View |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global
|
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
| Skin-Editor |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Smiley Packs |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Special Features | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Unclassified NewsBoard | GroupServer |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Data Management | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Unclassified NewsBoard | GroupServer |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
Invision Board 1.1.2, phpBB 2.0.x, Woltlab Burning Board 1.x
|
||
| Pruning |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Archiving |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Export Formats |
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
SQL
|
none
|
XML, mbox
|
| Export private messages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
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