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