| General | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | GroupServer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.6.4
|
2015-07-13
|
1.0β
|
| Release Date |
2018-10-29 (7 years ago)
|
2015-07-13 (10 years ago)
|
2010 June 16
|
| Last Update here |
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
|
2010-06-21 (16 years ago)
|
| Author |
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
Yves Goergen
|
OnlineGroups.Net
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
| License cost |
0
|
0
|
$0
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
Classic forum list
|
|
| Thread-Type |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Setup | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | GroupServer |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
manual
|
manual
|
| Upgrade method |
manual
|
manual
|
manual
|
| Hosting available |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Technology | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | GroupServer |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP 5
|
Python & Zope
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
PostgreSQL Database |
| Other Storage |
Zope Object Database
|
||
| Source Code Repo | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Posts | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | GroupServer |
| BBCode |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| HTML |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticons |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Single
|
Nested
|
None
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
One file
|
Multiple files
|
| Tags |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
No
|
|
| Forums | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | GroupServer |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
No
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Trashcan Forum |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | GroupServer |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Audit Logging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Other |
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
Spam Assasin is used for email spam control.
|
|
| Notification | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | GroupServer |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
Jabber
|
Integrated Chat
|
|
| Bookmarks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Community | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | GroupServer |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Signatures |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Users Online List |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Moderation | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | GroupServer |
| Moderators |
global, forums and threads
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Split Threads |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Shadow Topics |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Search | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | GroupServer |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
|
| Customization | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | 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 |
13
Czech, German, English, French, Hungarian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Chinese |
0
|
| Mobile View |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
global and forum specific
|
global
|
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
| Skin-Editor |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Smiley Packs |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Special Features | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | GroupServer |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Data Management | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | GroupServer |
| 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
|
Unknown
|
| Archiving |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Export Formats |
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
none
|
XML, mbox
|
| Export private messages |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
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