bbPress vs. Invision Power Board vs. phpBB

General bbPress Invision Power Board phpBB
Version
0.9.0.4
3.2.3
3.0.8
Release Date
2009-01-02 (15 years ago)
2011-10-17 (12 years ago)
2010-11-19 (13 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-03-11 (15 years ago)
2012-02-07 (12 years ago)
2011-06-22 (12 years ago)
Author
bbpress.org
Invision Power Services
The phpBB Group
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
No
Yes
License
GPL2
Commercial
General Public License
License cost
0
License from $175 / Hosted from $5 per month
0.00
Main View
Thread-Type
Flat
Flat
Flat
Setup bbPress Invision Power Board phpBB
Installation method
wizard
wizard
wizard
Upgrade method
wizard
wizard
wizard with manual interactions
Hosting available
No
Yes
No
Technology bbPress Invision Power Board phpBB
Programming Language
PHP
PHP 5.2+
PHP
UTF-8 Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Data Storage
1
MySQL Database
1
MySQL Database
6
Firebird Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database
Other Storage
Source Code Repo
Issue Tracker
Posts bbPress Invision Power Board phpBB
BBCode
Plugin
Yes
Yes
HTML
Yes
Yes
No
Emoticons
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Formatting Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editor
No
Yes
No
Quoting
Nested
Nested
Nested
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Attachments
Multiple files
Multiple files
Multiple files
Tags
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Mark as solved
Forums bbPress Invision Power Board phpBB
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Subforums
unlimited
unlimited
unlimited
Last Post
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Redirect Forums
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Trashcan Forum
Yes
Yes
No
Anti-Spam and Security bbPress Invision Power Board phpBB
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Groups
One group only
Multiple groups
Multiple groups
Flood Control
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACLs
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Warnings
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Suspension
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Bans
Yes
Yes
Yes
IP-Block
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Audit Logging
Plugin
Yes
Yes
User Reports
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Other
Spam Monitoring Service, Flag As Spammer, Question & Answer System
Plugin-based CAPTCHA system, Newly Registered Users permissions
Notification bbPress Invision Power Board phpBB
RSS/ATOM
Yes
Yes
Yes
E-Mail
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Instant Messaging
Plugin
No
Jabber
Bookmarks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Community bbPress Invision Power Board phpBB
Avatars
Plugin
Yes
Yes
User Ranks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Rating/Karma System
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Signatures
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Users Online List
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Private Messaging
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom profile fields
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Moderation bbPress Invision Power Board phpBB
Moderators
global
global and forums
global and forums
Move Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Split Threads
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Close Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Shadow Topics
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Sticky Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Important Threads
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Search bbPress Invision Power Board phpBB
Full-text search
Yes
Yes
Yes
Author search
Yes
Yes
Yes
Advanced search
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unread Topics
Database tracked
Database tracked
Customization bbPress Invision Power Board phpBB
Languages
0
0
0
Mobile View
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Templates
global
global and forum specific
global and forum specific
Custom BBCodes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Skin-Editor
No
Yes
Yes
Smiley Packs
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features bbPress Invision Power Board phpBB
Statistics
Yes
Yes
Yes
Polls
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Calendar
No
Yes
No
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Data Management bbPress Invision Power Board phpBB
Available Importers
Pruning
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Archiving
Plugin
Yes
No
Export Formats
BBXF
SQL
SQL Dumps in .sql, sql.gz, and .sql.bz2
Export private messages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Lo-Fi View
Plugin
Yes
Yes
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