| General | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | FUDforum |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.6.4
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2015-07-13
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3.0.9
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| Release Date |
2018-10-29 (7 years ago)
|
2015-07-13 (10 years ago)
|
2018-05-18 (8 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
|
| Author |
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
Yves Goergen
|
The FUDForum development team and user community.
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| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
GPL
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GNU General Public License
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| License cost |
0
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0
|
Free
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
Classic forum list
|
Classic forum list
|
| Thread-Type |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
| Setup | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | FUDforum |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
manual
|
wizard
|
| Upgrade method |
manual
|
manual
|
wizard
|
| Hosting available |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Technology | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | FUDforum |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP 5
|
PHP
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL 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 | Unclassified NewsBoard | FUDforum |
| BBCode |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Emoticons |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Single
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
One file
|
Multiple files
|
| Tags |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
No
|
No
|
| Forums | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | FUDforum |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Trashcan Forum |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | FUDforum |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Other |
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
Several others like SpamBot detection, prevent new users from posting links, etc.
|
|
| Notification | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | FUDforum |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
Jabber
|
Yes - via ICQ, AIM, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, Jabber, Google Chat or Skype.
|
|
| Bookmarks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Community | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | FUDforum |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Signatures |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Users Online List |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Moderation | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | FUDforum |
| Moderators |
global, forums and threads
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Search | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | FUDforum |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
| Customization | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | 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 |
13
Czech, German, English, French, Hungarian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Chinese |
0
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| Mobile View |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Templates |
global and forum specific
|
global
|
global
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Skin-Editor |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Smiley Packs |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | FUDforum |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Management | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | FUDforum |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
Invision Board 1.1.2, phpBB 2.0.x, Woltlab Burning Board 1.x
|
|
| Pruning |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Export Formats |
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
none
|
PDF (Adobe), ATOM, RSS, RDF, HTML
|
| Export private messages |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| remove Vanilla | remove Unclassified NewsBoard | remove FUDforum |