| General | YaBB | GroupServer | Vanilla | Yazd | Phorum |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.5 AE
|
1.0β
|
2.6.4
|
3.0 Stable-Beta
|
5.2.9a
|
| Release Date |
2010-07-05 (15 years ago)
|
2010 June 16
|
2018-10-29 (7 years ago)
|
2006-01-06 (20 years ago)
|
2008-10-13 (17 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2010-07-06 (15 years ago)
|
2010-06-21 (16 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
|
2006-11-07 (19 years ago)
|
2008-10-16 (17 years ago)
|
| Author |
YaBB Development Team
|
OnlineGroups.Net
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
Group Effort
|
Phorum Dev Team
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
YPL (Modified GNU GPL)
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
Apache
|
The Phorum License (BSD)
|
| License cost |
Free
|
$0
|
0
|
Free
|
0
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
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| Thread-Type |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
| Setup | YaBB | GroupServer | Vanilla | Yazd | Phorum |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
|
| Upgrade method |
wizard with manual interactions
|
manual
|
manual
|
wizard
|
|
| Hosting available |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Technology | YaBB | GroupServer | Vanilla | Yazd | Phorum |
| Programming Language |
Perl
|
Python & Zope
|
PHP
|
Java
|
PHP
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
0
|
1
PostgreSQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
6
DB2 Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database |
| Other Storage |
Zope Object Database
|
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| Source Code Repo | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Posts | YaBB | GroupServer | Vanilla | Yazd | Phorum |
| BBCode |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| HTML |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Nested
|
None
|
Single
|
Single
|
Nested
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
| Tags |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
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| Forums | YaBB | GroupServer | Vanilla | Yazd | Phorum |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
one level
|
No
|
unlimited
|
one level
|
multiple levels
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
Patch
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Trashcan Forum |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | YaBB | GroupServer | Vanilla | Yazd | Phorum |
| CAPTCHA |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| User Reports |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Other |
trademark "the Guardian" system
|
Spam Assasin is used for email spam control.
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
Aksimet Plugin
|
|
| Notification | YaBB | GroupServer | Vanilla | Yazd | Phorum |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
Private message notifications and broadcast messages
|
Integrated Chat
|
0
|
0
|
|
| Bookmarks |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Community | YaBB | GroupServer | Vanilla | Yazd | Phorum |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| User Ranks |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Patch
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Users Online List |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Moderation | YaBB | GroupServer | Vanilla | Yazd | Phorum |
| Moderators |
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Search | YaBB | GroupServer | Vanilla | Yazd | Phorum |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Session tracked
|
Database tracked
|
|
| Customization | YaBB | GroupServer | Vanilla | Yazd | Phorum |
| Languages |
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 |
0
|
0
|
| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
global
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Skin-Editor |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Smiley Packs |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | YaBB | GroupServer | Vanilla | Yazd | Phorum |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Polls |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Calendar |
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Friendly URLs |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Data Management | YaBB | GroupServer | Vanilla | Yazd | Phorum |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
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| Pruning |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Export Formats |
print layout; storage folders
|
XML, mbox
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
none
|
|
| Export private messages |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| remove YaBB | remove GroupServer | remove Vanilla | remove Yazd | remove Phorum |