| General | Beehive Forum | Invision Power Board | FUDforum | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | XMB |
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| Version |
1.4.7
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3.2.3
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3.0.9
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2.6.4
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2015-07-13
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1.9.11
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| Release Date |
2015-06-04 (11 years ago)
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2011-10-18 (14 years ago)
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2018-05-18 (8 years ago)
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2018-10-29 (7 years ago)
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2015-07-13 (10 years ago)
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Febuary 28, 2009
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| Last Update here |
2016-02-08 (10 years ago)
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2012-02-07 (14 years ago)
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2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
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2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
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2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
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2012-03-02 (14 years ago)
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| Author |
Matt Beale, Mark Rendle
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Invision Power Services
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The FUDForum development team and user community.
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
Yves Goergen
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The XMB Group
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| URL | ||||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
GPL
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Commercial
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GNU General Public License
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GPL
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GPL
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General Public License
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| License cost |
0
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License from $175 / Hosted from $5 per month
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Free
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0
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0
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0.00
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| Main View |
Classic forum list
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Both, can be configured
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Classic forum list
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| Thread-Type |
Threaded or Flat
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Flat
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Threaded or Flat
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Flat
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Flat
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Flat
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| Setup | Beehive Forum | Invision Power Board | FUDforum | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | XMB |
| Installation method |
wizard
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wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
manual
|
wizard
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| Upgrade method |
wizard
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wizard
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wizard
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manual
|
manual
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wizard
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| Hosting available |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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| Technology | Beehive Forum | Invision Power Board | FUDforum | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | XMB |
| Programming Language |
PHP
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PHP 5.2+
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PHP
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PHP
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PHP 5
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php
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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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Yes
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Yes
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| Data Storage |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
7
DB2 Database, Firebird Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
| Other Storage | ||||||
| Source Code Repo | ||||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||||
| Posts | Beehive Forum | Invision Power Board | FUDforum | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | XMB |
| BBCode |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
|
Yes
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Yes
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| HTML |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Optional
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| Emoticons |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| WYSIWYG Editor |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
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| Quoting |
Nested
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Single
|
Nested
|
Nested
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| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
|
Yes
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No
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| Attachments |
Multiple files
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Multiple files
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Multiple files
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Multiple files
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One file
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Multiple files
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| Tags |
Unknown
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Unknown
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Unknown
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Yes
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No
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Unknown
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| Mark as solved |
No
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A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
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No
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| Forums | Beehive Forum | Invision Power Board | FUDforum | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | XMB |
| Categories |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Subforums |
unlimited
|
unlimited
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unlimited
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unlimited
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one level
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| Last Post |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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Optional
|
Yes
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| Redirect Forums |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Trashcan Forum |
Optional
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
|
No
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| Anti-Spam and Security | Beehive Forum | Invision Power Board | FUDforum | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | XMB |
| CAPTCHA |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
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| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
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| Flood Control |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Warnings |
Unknown
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
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| Suspension |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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No
|
Plugin
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| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| IP-Block |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Optional
|
Yes
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| Audit Logging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| User Reports |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
|
No
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Yes
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| Other |
Worming, Pilllorying
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Spam Monitoring Service, Flag As Spammer, Question & Answer System
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Several others like SpamBot detection, prevent new users from posting links, etc.
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Community Curation & SPAM removal
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| Notification | Beehive Forum | Invision Power Board | FUDforum | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | XMB |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Plugin
|
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
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| Instant Messaging |
Yes
|
No
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Yes - via ICQ, AIM, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, Jabber, Google Chat or Skype.
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Jabber
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| Bookmarks |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Community | Beehive Forum | Invision Power Board | FUDforum | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | XMB |
| Avatars |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| User Ranks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Rating/Karma System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Users Online List |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Custom profile fields |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| Moderation | Beehive Forum | Invision Power Board | FUDforum | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | XMB |
| Moderators |
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Split Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Close Threads |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Shadow Topics |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Important Threads |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Search | Beehive Forum | Invision Power Board | FUDforum | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | XMB |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Advanced search |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
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Database tracked
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Database tracked
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Session tracked
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| Customization | Beehive Forum | Invision Power Board | FUDforum | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | XMB |
| Languages |
0
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0
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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 |
13
Czech, German, English, French, Hungarian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Chinese |
0
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| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
CSS only
|
global and forum specific
|
global
|
global and forum specific
|
global
|
global and forum specific
|
| Custom BBCodes |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Skin-Editor |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Smiley Packs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Plugins |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Beehive Forum | Invision Power Board | FUDforum | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | XMB |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Calendar |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Friendly URLs |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Management | Beehive Forum | Invision Power Board | FUDforum | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | XMB |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
Invision Board 1.1.2, phpBB 2.0.x, Woltlab Burning Board 1.x
|
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| Pruning |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Export Formats |
SQL
|
PDF (Adobe), ATOM, RSS, RDF, HTML
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
none
|
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| Export private messages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| remove Beehive Forum | remove Invision Power Board | remove FUDforum | remove Vanilla | remove Unclassified NewsBoard | remove XMB |