| General | Vanilla | NoNonsense Forum | OvBB | FUDforum |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.6.4
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18
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0.16a
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3.0.9
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| Release Date |
2018-10-29 (7 years ago)
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2012-03-05 (14 years ago)
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2007-04-06 (19 years ago)
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2018-05-18 (7 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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2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
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| Author |
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
Kroc Camen
|
Jonathon Freeman & Brian Otto
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The FUDForum development team and user community.
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| 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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| License |
GPL
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CC-BY 3
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MIT
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GNU General Public License
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| License cost |
0
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0
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0
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Free
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| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
Classic forum list
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| Thread-Type |
Flat
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Flat
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Flat
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Threaded or Flat
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| Setup | Vanilla | NoNonsense Forum | OvBB | FUDforum |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
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| Upgrade method |
manual
|
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
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| Hosting available |
Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
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| Technology | Vanilla | NoNonsense Forum | OvBB | FUDforum |
| Programming Language |
PHP
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PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
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| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Data Storage |
1
MySQL Database |
0
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2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database |
7
DB2 Database, Firebird Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
| Other Storage | ||||
| Source Code Repo | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Posts | Vanilla | NoNonsense Forum | OvBB | FUDforum |
| BBCode |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Emoticons |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| WYSIWYG Editor |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
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| Quoting |
Single
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Nested
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| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
No
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
No
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Multiple files
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Multiple files
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| Tags |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
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Unknown
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| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
No
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| Forums | Vanilla | NoNonsense Forum | OvBB | FUDforum |
| Categories |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Subforums |
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
No
|
unlimited
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| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Redirect Forums |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Trashcan Forum |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | Vanilla | NoNonsense Forum | OvBB | FUDforum |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
No
|
One group only
|
Multiple groups
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| Flood Control |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Blacklist |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Warnings |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
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| Suspension |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
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| Bans |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
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| User Reports |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
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| Other |
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
Several others like SpamBot detection, prevent new users from posting links, etc.
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| Notification | Vanilla | NoNonsense Forum | OvBB | FUDforum |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
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Yes
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No
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
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No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
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| Instant Messaging |
No
|
Yes - via ICQ, AIM, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, Jabber, Google Chat or Skype.
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| Bookmarks |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
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| Community | Vanilla | NoNonsense Forum | OvBB | FUDforum |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
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| Signatures |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Users Online List |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Moderation | Vanilla | NoNonsense Forum | OvBB | FUDforum |
| Moderators |
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
global
|
global and forums
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Shadow Topics |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Important Threads |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
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| Search | Vanilla | NoNonsense Forum | OvBB | FUDforum |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Advanced search |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
No
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Session tracked
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Database tracked
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| Customization | Vanilla | NoNonsense Forum | OvBB | FUDforum |
| 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
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0
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| Mobile View |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Templates |
global and forum specific
|
global
|
global
|
global
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Skin-Editor |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Smiley Packs |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Vanilla | NoNonsense Forum | OvBB | FUDforum |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Plugin
|
No
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Calendar |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Data Management | Vanilla | NoNonsense Forum | OvBB | FUDforum |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
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|||
| Pruning |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Export Formats |
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
RSS
|
No
|
PDF (Adobe), ATOM, RSS, RDF, HTML
|
| Export private messages |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| remove Vanilla | remove NoNonsense Forum | remove OvBB | remove FUDforum |