| General | XMB | Invision Power Board | FUDforum | Vanilla |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.9.11
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3.2.3
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3.0.9
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2.6.4
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| Release Date |
Febuary 28, 2009
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2011-10-18 (14 years ago)
|
2018-05-18 (8 years ago)
|
2018-10-29 (7 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2012-03-02 (14 years ago)
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2012-02-07 (14 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
|
| Author |
The XMB Group
|
Invision Power Services
|
The FUDForum development team and user community.
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
General Public License
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Commercial
|
GNU General Public License
|
GPL
|
| License cost |
0.00
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License from $175 / Hosted from $5 per month
|
Free
|
0
|
| Main View |
Classic forum list
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Both, can be configured
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| Thread-Type |
Flat
|
Flat
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Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
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| Setup | XMB | Invision Power Board | FUDforum | Vanilla |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
| Upgrade method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
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manual
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| Hosting available |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Technology | XMB | Invision Power Board | FUDforum | Vanilla |
| Programming Language |
php
|
PHP 5.2+
|
PHP
|
PHP
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| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
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 |
1
MySQL Database |
| Other Storage | ||||
| Source Code Repo | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Posts | XMB | Invision Power Board | FUDforum | Vanilla |
| BBCode |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| HTML |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Nested
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Single
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
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| Tags |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
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| Mark as solved |
No
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A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
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| Forums | XMB | Invision Power Board | FUDforum | Vanilla |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
one level
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Trashcan Forum |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | XMB | Invision Power Board | FUDforum | Vanilla |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Warnings |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Suspension |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Audit Logging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
Spam Monitoring Service, Flag As Spammer, Question & Answer System
|
Several others like SpamBot detection, prevent new users from posting links, etc.
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Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
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| Notification | XMB | Invision Power Board | FUDforum | Vanilla |
| RSS/ATOM |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
No
|
Yes - via ICQ, AIM, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, Jabber, Google Chat or Skype.
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| Bookmarks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Community | XMB | Invision Power Board | FUDforum | Vanilla |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Users Online List |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Moderation | XMB | Invision Power Board | FUDforum | Vanilla |
| Moderators |
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Search | XMB | Invision Power Board | FUDforum | Vanilla |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Session tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
| Customization | XMB | Invision Power Board | FUDforum | Vanilla |
| Languages |
0
|
0
|
0
|
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 |
| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Templates |
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global
|
global and forum specific
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Skin-Editor |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Smiley Packs |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | XMB | Invision Power Board | FUDforum | Vanilla |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Management | XMB | Invision Power Board | FUDforum | Vanilla |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
|||
| Pruning |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Export Formats |
SQL
|
PDF (Adobe), ATOM, RSS, RDF, HTML
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
|
| Export private messages |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| remove XMB | remove Invision Power Board | remove FUDforum | remove Vanilla |