General | Vanilla | vBulletin | MyBB | Jitbit AspNetForum |
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Version |
2.6.4
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4.1.5
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1.6.3
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6.6.0
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Release Date |
2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
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2011-07-26 (12 years ago)
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2011-04-16 (12 years ago)
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2010-05-04 (13 years ago)
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Last Update here |
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
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2011-08-25 (12 years ago)
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2011-06-22 (12 years ago)
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2010-05-06 (13 years ago)
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Author |
Vanilla Forums Inc
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vBulletin Solutions
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MyBB Group
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Jitbit Software
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URL | ||||
Free and Open Source |
Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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License |
GPL
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commercial / visible source
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Custom
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Proprietary
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License cost |
0
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$285 Suite or $195 Forum
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US$0
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$139
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Main View |
Both, can be configured
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Thread-Type |
Flat
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Threaded or Flat
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Threaded or Flat
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Flat
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Setup | Vanilla | vBulletin | MyBB | Jitbit AspNetForum |
Installation method |
wizard
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wizard
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wizard
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manual
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Upgrade method |
manual
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wizard with manual interactions
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wizard
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manual
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Hosting available |
Yes
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No
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No
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No
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Technology | Vanilla | vBulletin | MyBB | Jitbit AspNetForum |
Programming Language |
PHP
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PHP
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PHP
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C#
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UTF-8 Support |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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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
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Source Code Repo | ||||
Issue Tracker | ||||
Posts | Vanilla | vBulletin | MyBB | Jitbit AspNetForum |
BBCode |
Plugin
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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HTML |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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No
|
Emoticons |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Formatting Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
WYSIWYG Editor |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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Quoting |
Single
|
Nested
|
Nested
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Nested
|
Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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Attachments |
Multiple files
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Multiple files
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Multiple files
|
Multiple files
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Tags |
Yes
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Unknown
|
Unknown
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Unknown
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Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
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Forums | Vanilla | vBulletin | MyBB | Jitbit AspNetForum |
Categories |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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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
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Yes
|
Yes
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Groups |
Multiple groups
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Multiple groups
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Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
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Flood Control |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Warnings |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Suspension |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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IP-Block |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Audit Logging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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No
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User Reports |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Other |
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
Akismet
|
Akismet plugin available.
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Notification | Vanilla | vBulletin | MyBB | Jitbit AspNetForum |
RSS/ATOM |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
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Instant Messaging |
Private messaging with instant notifications
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Bookmarks |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
No
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Community | Vanilla | vBulletin | MyBB | Jitbit AspNetForum |
Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
User Ranks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Rating/Karma System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Signatures |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Users Online List |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Custom profile fields |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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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
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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
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Yes
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Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
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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
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0
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0
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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
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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
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Pruning |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Archiving |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Export Formats |
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
Single Table CSV, Single and Multi-Table SQL
|
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Export private messages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
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