| General | Vanilla | OvBB | NoNonsense Forum | YaBB | miniBB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.6.4
|
0.16a
|
18
|
2.5 AE
|
2.4
|
| Release Date |
2018-10-29 (7 years ago)
|
2007-04-06 (18 years ago)
|
2012-03-05 (13 years ago)
|
2010-07-05 (15 years ago)
|
2008-08-18 (17 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
|
2008-01-21 (18 years ago)
|
2012-03-05 (13 years ago)
|
2010-07-06 (15 years ago)
|
2009-09-02 (16 years ago)
|
| Author |
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
Jonathon Freeman & Brian Otto
|
Kroc Camen
|
YaBB Development Team
|
miniBB Team
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
MIT
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CC-BY 3
|
YPL (Modified GNU GPL)
|
GPL
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| License cost |
0
|
0
|
0
|
Free
|
Free
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
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| Thread-Type |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Setup | Vanilla | OvBB | NoNonsense Forum | YaBB | miniBB |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
| Upgrade method |
manual
|
wizard
|
manual
|
wizard with manual interactions
|
manual
|
| Hosting available |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Technology | Vanilla | OvBB | NoNonsense Forum | YaBB | miniBB |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
Perl
|
PHP
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
1
MySQL Database |
2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database |
0
|
0
|
1
MySQL Database |
| Other Storage | |||||
| Source Code Repo | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Posts | Vanilla | OvBB | NoNonsense Forum | YaBB | miniBB |
| BBCode |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Emoticons |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Single
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Single
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
No
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
| Tags |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
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| Forums | Vanilla | OvBB | NoNonsense Forum | YaBB | miniBB |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
unlimited
|
No
|
unlimited
|
one level
|
one level
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Trashcan Forum |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | Vanilla | OvBB | NoNonsense Forum | YaBB | miniBB |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
One group only
|
No
|
Multiple groups
|
No
|
| Flood Control |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Warnings |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| User Reports |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Other |
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
trademark "the Guardian" system
|
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| Notification | Vanilla | OvBB | NoNonsense Forum | YaBB | miniBB |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
No
|
Private message notifications and broadcast messages
|
0
|
||
| Bookmarks |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Community | Vanilla | OvBB | NoNonsense Forum | YaBB | miniBB |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| User Ranks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Signatures |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Users Online List |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Custom profile fields |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Moderation | Vanilla | OvBB | NoNonsense Forum | YaBB | miniBB |
| Moderators |
global, forums and threads
|
global
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Search | Vanilla | OvBB | NoNonsense Forum | YaBB | miniBB |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Session tracked
|
No
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
| Customization | Vanilla | OvBB | NoNonsense Forum | YaBB | miniBB |
| 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
|
0
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| Mobile View |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
global and forum specific
|
global
|
global
|
global
|
global
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Skin-Editor |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Smiley Packs |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Vanilla | OvBB | NoNonsense Forum | YaBB | miniBB |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Data Management | Vanilla | OvBB | NoNonsense Forum | YaBB | miniBB |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
||||
| Pruning |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Archiving |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Export Formats |
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
No
|
RSS
|
print layout; storage folders
|
Users' logins/emails can be exported in CSV or TXT
|
| Export private messages |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
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