| General | Vanilla | Jive Forums |
|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.6.4
|
5.0.5
|
| Release Date |
2018-10-29 (7 years ago)
|
2006-08-30 (19 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
|
2006-12-06 (19 years ago)
|
| Author |
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
Jive Software
|
| URL | ||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
No
|
| License |
GPL
|
Per User
|
| License cost |
0
|
$1,950 to $19,950
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
|
| Thread-Type |
Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
| Setup | Vanilla | Jive Forums |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
|
| Upgrade method |
manual
|
|
| Hosting available |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Technology | Vanilla | Jive Forums |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
Java, J2EE, JSP
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
1
MySQL Database |
5
DB2 Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database |
| Other Storage | ||
| Source Code Repo | ||
| Issue Tracker | ||
| Posts | Vanilla | Jive Forums |
| BBCode |
Plugin
|
No
|
| HTML |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Emoticons |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Single
|
Nested
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
| Tags |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
|
| Forums | Vanilla | Jive Forums |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
Yes
|
No
|
| Trashcan Forum |
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | Vanilla | Jive Forums |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| User Reports |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Other |
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
|
| Notification | Vanilla | Jive Forums |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
No
|
|
| Bookmarks |
Yes
|
No
|
| Community | Vanilla | Jive Forums |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Signatures |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Users Online List |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Moderation | Vanilla | Jive Forums |
| Moderators |
global, forums and threads
|
global, forums and threads
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
No
|
| Search | Vanilla | Jive Forums |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
| Customization | Vanilla | Jive Forums |
| 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
|
| Mobile View |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Skin-Editor |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Smiley Packs |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Vanilla | Jive Forums |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
No
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
No
|
| Data Management | Vanilla | Jive Forums |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
|
| Pruning |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Export Formats |
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
XML
|
| Export private messages |
Yes
|
No
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
No
|
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