Vanilla vs. vBulletin vs. MyBB vs. Jitbit AspNetForum

General Vanilla vBulletin MyBB Jitbit AspNetForum
Version
2.6.4
4.1.5
1.6.3
6.6.0
Release Date
2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
2011-07-26 (12 years ago)
2011-04-16 (12 years ago)
2010-05-04 (13 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
2011-08-25 (12 years ago)
2011-06-22 (12 years ago)
2010-05-06 (13 years ago)
Author
Vanilla Forums Inc
vBulletin Solutions
MyBB Group
Jitbit Software
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
No
Yes
No
License
GPL
commercial / visible source
Custom
Proprietary
License cost
0
$285 Suite or $195 Forum
US$0
$139
Main View
Both, can be configured
Thread-Type
Flat
Threaded or Flat
Threaded or Flat
Flat
Setup Vanilla vBulletin MyBB Jitbit AspNetForum
Installation method
wizard
wizard
wizard
manual
Upgrade method
manual
wizard with manual interactions
wizard
manual
Hosting available
Yes
No
No
No
Technology Vanilla vBulletin MyBB Jitbit AspNetForum
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
C#
UTF-8 Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Data Storage
1
MySQL Database
1
MySQL Database
3
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database
3
Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database
Other Storage
MS Access
Source Code Repo
Issue Tracker
Posts Vanilla vBulletin MyBB Jitbit AspNetForum
BBCode
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Emoticons
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Formatting Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editor
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Single
Nested
Nested
Nested
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Attachments
Multiple files
Multiple files
Multiple files
Multiple files
Tags
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Mark as solved
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
Forums Vanilla vBulletin MyBB Jitbit AspNetForum
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Subforums
unlimited
unlimited
unlimited
unlimited
Last Post
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Redirect Forums
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Trashcan Forum
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Anti-Spam and Security Vanilla vBulletin MyBB Jitbit AspNetForum
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Groups
Multiple groups
Multiple groups
Multiple groups
Multiple groups
Flood Control
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Warnings
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Suspension
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Bans
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
IP-Block
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Audit Logging
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
User Reports
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Other
Community Curation & SPAM removal
Akismet
Akismet plugin available.
Notification Vanilla vBulletin MyBB Jitbit AspNetForum
RSS/ATOM
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
E-Mail
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Instant Messaging
Private messaging with instant notifications
Bookmarks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Community Vanilla vBulletin MyBB Jitbit AspNetForum
Avatars
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
User Ranks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Rating/Karma System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Signatures
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Users Online List
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Private Messaging
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom profile fields
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Moderation Vanilla vBulletin MyBB Jitbit AspNetForum
Moderators
global, forums and threads
global and forums
global and forums
global and forums
Move Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Split Threads
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Close Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Shadow Topics
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Sticky Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Important Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Search Vanilla vBulletin MyBB Jitbit AspNetForum
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
Database tracked
Customization Vanilla vBulletin MyBB Jitbit AspNetForum
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
0
0
0
Mobile View
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Templates
global and forum specific
global and forum specific
global and forum specific
CSS only
Custom BBCodes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Skin-Editor
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Smiley Packs
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Vanilla vBulletin MyBB Jitbit AspNetForum
Statistics
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Polls
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Data Management Vanilla vBulletin MyBB Jitbit AspNetForum
Available Importers
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
Pruning
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Archiving
Yes
Yes
No
No
Export Formats
Proprietary or MySQLDump
Single Table CSV, Single and Multi-Table SQL
Export private messages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Lo-Fi View
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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