| General | Beehive Forum | MyBB | Phorum | phpBB | Vanilla | FUDforum |
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| Version |
1.4.7
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1.6.3
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5.2.9a
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3.0.8
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2.6.4
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3.0.9
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| Release Date |
2015-06-03 (8 years ago)
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2011-04-16 (13 years ago)
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2008-10-12 (15 years ago)
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2010-11-19 (13 years ago)
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2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
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2018-05-17 (5 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2016-02-08 (8 years ago)
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2011-06-22 (12 years ago)
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2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
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2011-06-22 (12 years ago)
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2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
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2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
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| Author |
Matt Beale, Mark Rendle
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MyBB Group
|
Phorum Dev Team
|
The phpBB Group
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Vanilla Forums Inc
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The FUDForum development team and user community.
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| URL | ||||||
| Free and Open Source |
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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| License |
GPL
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Custom
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The Phorum License (BSD)
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General Public License
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GPL
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GNU General Public License
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| License cost |
0
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US$0
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0
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0.00
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0
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Free
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| Main View |
Both, can be configured
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Classic forum list
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| Thread-Type |
Threaded or Flat
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Threaded or Flat
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Threaded or Flat
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Flat
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Flat
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Threaded or Flat
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| Setup | Beehive Forum | MyBB | Phorum | phpBB | Vanilla | FUDforum |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
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wizard
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wizard
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| Upgrade method |
wizard
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wizard
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wizard
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wizard with manual interactions
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manual
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wizard
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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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Yes
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Yes
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| Technology | Beehive Forum | MyBB | Phorum | phpBB | Vanilla | FUDforum |
| Programming Language |
PHP
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PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
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 |
3
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database |
6
Firebird Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
1
MySQL Database |
7
DB2 Database, Firebird Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
| Other Storage | ||||||
| Source Code Repo | ||||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||||
| Posts | Beehive Forum | MyBB | Phorum | phpBB | Vanilla | FUDforum |
| BBCode |
No
|
Yes
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Optional
|
Yes
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Plugin
|
Yes
|
| HTML |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Emoticons |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Nested
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Single
|
Nested
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
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Multiple files
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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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Unknown
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Yes
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Unknown
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| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
No
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| Forums | Beehive Forum | MyBB | Phorum | phpBB | Vanilla | FUDforum |
| Categories |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Subforums |
unlimited
|
multiple levels
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Trashcan Forum |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Anti-Spam and Security | Beehive Forum | MyBB | Phorum | phpBB | Vanilla | FUDforum |
| CAPTCHA |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Warnings |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| IP-Block |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Audit Logging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| User Reports |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| Other |
Worming, Pilllorying
|
Akismet plugin available.
|
Aksimet Plugin
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Plugin-based CAPTCHA system, Newly Registered Users permissions
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
Several others like SpamBot detection, prevent new users from posting links, etc.
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| Notification | Beehive Forum | MyBB | Phorum | phpBB | Vanilla | FUDforum |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
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| Instant Messaging |
Yes
|
0
|
Jabber
|
Yes - via ICQ, AIM, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, Jabber, Google Chat or Skype.
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| Bookmarks |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Community | Beehive Forum | MyBB | Phorum | phpBB | Vanilla | FUDforum |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Rating/Karma System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Users Online List |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| Moderation | Beehive Forum | MyBB | Phorum | phpBB | Vanilla | FUDforum |
| Moderators |
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Shadow Topics |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Important Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Search | Beehive Forum | MyBB | Phorum | phpBB | Vanilla | FUDforum |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
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Database tracked
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Database tracked
|
Database tracked
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| Customization | Beehive Forum | MyBB | Phorum | phpBB | Vanilla | FUDforum |
| Languages |
0
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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 |
0
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| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Templates |
CSS only
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global
|
| Custom BBCodes |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Skin-Editor |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Smiley Packs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Plugins |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Beehive Forum | MyBB | Phorum | phpBB | Vanilla | FUDforum |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Calendar |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Friendly URLs |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Management | Beehive Forum | MyBB | Phorum | phpBB | Vanilla | FUDforum |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
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|||||
| Pruning |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Export Formats |
SQL Dumps in .sql, sql.gz, and .sql.bz2
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
PDF (Adobe), ATOM, RSS, RDF, HTML
|
|||
| Export private messages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| remove Beehive Forum | remove MyBB | remove Phorum | remove phpBB | remove Vanilla | remove FUDforum |