| General | Beehive Forum | Phorum | MyBB | phpBB | Vanilla | SMF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.4.7
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5.2.9a
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1.6.3
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3.0.8
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2.6.4
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2.0.6
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| Release Date |
2015-06-03 (8 years ago)
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2008-10-12 (15 years ago)
|
2011-04-16 (13 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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2013-10-21 (10 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2016-02-08 (8 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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2011-06-22 (12 years ago)
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2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
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2013-10-25 (10 years ago)
|
| Author |
Matt Beale, Mark Rendle
|
Phorum Dev Team
|
MyBB Group
|
The phpBB Group
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
Simple Machines
|
| URL | ||||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
The Phorum License (BSD)
|
Custom
|
General Public License
|
GPL
|
BSD
|
| License cost |
0
|
0
|
US$0
|
0.00
|
0
|
0
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
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| Thread-Type |
Threaded or Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Setup | Beehive Forum | Phorum | MyBB | phpBB | Vanilla | SMF |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
| Upgrade method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard with manual interactions
|
manual
|
wizard
|
| Hosting available |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Technology | Beehive Forum | Phorum | MyBB | phpBB | Vanilla | SMF |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
1
MySQL Database |
2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database |
3
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
6
Firebird Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
1
MySQL Database |
3
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
| Other Storage | ||||||
| Source Code Repo | ||||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||||
| Posts | Beehive Forum | Phorum | MyBB | phpBB | Vanilla | SMF |
| BBCode |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| HTML |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Nested
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Single
|
Nested
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
| Tags |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
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| Forums | Beehive Forum | Phorum | MyBB | phpBB | Vanilla | SMF |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
multiple levels
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Trashcan Forum |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | Beehive Forum | Phorum | MyBB | phpBB | Vanilla | SMF |
| CAPTCHA |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| 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
|
| Warnings |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Other |
Worming, Pilllorying
|
Aksimet Plugin
|
Akismet plugin available.
|
Plugin-based CAPTCHA system, Newly Registered Users permissions
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
An Akismet mod is available
|
| Notification | Beehive Forum | Phorum | MyBB | phpBB | Vanilla | SMF |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
Yes
|
0
|
Jabber
|
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| Bookmarks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Community | Beehive Forum | Phorum | MyBB | phpBB | Vanilla | SMF |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Users Online List |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Moderation | Beehive Forum | Phorum | MyBB | phpBB | Vanilla | SMF |
| Moderators |
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
global, forums and threads
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Search | Beehive Forum | Phorum | MyBB | phpBB | Vanilla | SMF |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
| Customization | Beehive Forum | Phorum | MyBB | phpBB | Vanilla | SMF |
| Languages |
0
|
0
|
0
|
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
|
| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
CSS only
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
| Custom BBCodes |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Skin-Editor |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Smiley Packs |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Plugins |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Beehive Forum | Phorum | MyBB | phpBB | Vanilla | SMF |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Calendar |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Friendly URLs |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Data Management | Beehive Forum | Phorum | MyBB | phpBB | Vanilla | SMF |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
|||||
| Pruning |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Export Formats |
SQL Dumps in .sql, sql.gz, and .sql.bz2
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
WAP(2), IMode
|
|||
| Export private messages |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| remove Beehive Forum | remove Phorum | remove MyBB | remove phpBB | remove Vanilla | remove SMF |