| General | YaBB | vBulletin | Vanilla | Monkey Boards |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.5 AE
|
4.1.5
|
2.6.4
|
0.4
|
| Release Date |
2010-07-05 (15 years ago)
|
2011-07-27 (14 years ago)
|
2018-10-29 (7 years ago)
|
2007-02-19 (18 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2010-07-06 (15 years ago)
|
2011-08-26 (14 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
|
2007-02-20 (18 years ago)
|
| Author |
YaBB Development Team
|
vBulletin Solutions
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
James Greenwood
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
YPL (Modified GNU GPL)
|
commercial / visible source
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
| License cost |
Free
|
$285 Suite or $195 Forum
|
0
|
0
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
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| Thread-Type |
Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Setup | YaBB | vBulletin | Vanilla | Monkey Boards |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
|
| Upgrade method |
wizard with manual interactions
|
wizard with manual interactions
|
manual
|
|
| Hosting available |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Technology | YaBB | vBulletin | Vanilla | Monkey Boards |
| Programming Language |
Perl
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
0
|
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
SQLite File Database |
| Other Storage | ||||
| Source Code Repo | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Posts | YaBB | vBulletin | Vanilla | Monkey Boards |
| BBCode |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| HTML |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Nested
|
Nested
|
Single
|
None
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
No
|
| Tags |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
|||
| Forums | YaBB | vBulletin | Vanilla | Monkey Boards |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
one level
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
No
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Trashcan Forum |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | YaBB | vBulletin | Vanilla | Monkey Boards |
| CAPTCHA |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
No
|
| Flood Control |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Warnings |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Audit Logging |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| User Reports |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Other |
trademark "the Guardian" system
|
Akismet
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
|
| Notification | YaBB | vBulletin | Vanilla | Monkey Boards |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
Private message notifications and broadcast messages
|
0
|
||
| Bookmarks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Community | YaBB | vBulletin | Vanilla | Monkey Boards |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| User Ranks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Users Online List |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Custom profile fields |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Moderation | YaBB | vBulletin | Vanilla | Monkey Boards |
| Moderators |
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
global
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Search | YaBB | vBulletin | Vanilla | Monkey Boards |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
No
|
| Customization | YaBB | vBulletin | Vanilla | Monkey Boards |
| 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
|
| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
global
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Skin-Editor |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Smiley Packs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | YaBB | vBulletin | Vanilla | Monkey Boards |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Calendar |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Friendly URLs |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Data Management | YaBB | vBulletin | Vanilla | Monkey Boards |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
|||
| Pruning |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Archiving |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Export Formats |
print layout; storage folders
|
Single Table CSV, Single and Multi-Table SQL
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
None (cannot be exported)
|
| Export private messages |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
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