| General | Vanilla | NoNonsense Forum | OvBB | dnfBB | Monkey Boards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.6.4
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18
|
0.16a
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2.0
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0.4
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| Release Date |
2018-10-29 (7 years ago)
|
2012-03-05 (14 years ago)
|
2007-04-06 (19 years ago)
|
2007-03-27 (19 years ago)
|
2007-02-19 (19 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
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2012-03-05 (14 years ago)
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2008-01-21 (18 years ago)
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2007-03-29 (19 years ago)
|
2007-02-20 (19 years ago)
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| Author |
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
Kroc Camen
|
Jonathon Freeman & Brian Otto
|
dnfBB Team
|
James Greenwood
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
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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| License |
GPL
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CC-BY 3
|
MIT
|
IDPL
|
GPL
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| License cost |
0
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0
|
0
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N/A
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0
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| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
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| Thread-Type |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
|
| Setup | Vanilla | NoNonsense Forum | OvBB | dnfBB | Monkey Boards |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
|
| Upgrade method |
manual
|
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
|
| Hosting available |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
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Yes
|
| Technology | Vanilla | NoNonsense Forum | OvBB | dnfBB | Monkey Boards |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
C#
|
PHP
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
1
MySQL Database |
0
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2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database |
2
Firebird Database, MySQL Database |
1
SQLite File Database |
| Other Storage | |||||
| Source Code Repo | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Posts | Vanilla | NoNonsense Forum | OvBB | dnfBB | Monkey Boards |
| BBCode |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| HTML |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Emoticons |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Single
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
None
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
No
|
Multiple files
|
No
|
No
|
| Tags |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
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| Forums | Vanilla | NoNonsense Forum | OvBB | dnfBB | Monkey Boards |
| Categories |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Trashcan Forum |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | Vanilla | NoNonsense Forum | OvBB | dnfBB | Monkey Boards |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
No
|
One group only
|
Multiple groups
|
No
|
| Flood Control |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Warnings |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Audit Logging |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| User Reports |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Other |
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
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| Notification | Vanilla | NoNonsense Forum | OvBB | dnfBB | Monkey Boards |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
No
|
0
|
|||
| Bookmarks |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Community | Vanilla | NoNonsense Forum | OvBB | dnfBB | Monkey Boards |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| User Ranks |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Signatures |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Users Online List |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Custom profile fields |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Moderation | Vanilla | NoNonsense Forum | OvBB | dnfBB | Monkey Boards |
| Moderators |
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
global
|
global and forums
|
global
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Search | Vanilla | NoNonsense Forum | OvBB | dnfBB | Monkey Boards |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
No
|
Session tracked
|
Database tracked
|
No
|
| Customization | Vanilla | NoNonsense Forum | OvBB | dnfBB | Monkey Boards |
| 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
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0
|
0
|
0
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| Mobile View |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
global and forum specific
|
global
|
global
|
CSS only
|
global
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Skin-Editor |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Smiley Packs |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Vanilla | NoNonsense Forum | OvBB | dnfBB | Monkey Boards |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Data Management | Vanilla | NoNonsense Forum | OvBB | dnfBB | Monkey Boards |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
||||
| Pruning |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Archiving |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Export Formats |
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
RSS
|
No
|
None (cannot be exported)
|
|
| Export private messages |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
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