General | bttlxeForum | Unclassified NewsBoard | Phorum | Vanilla | phpBB |
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Version |
2.0
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2015-07-13
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5.2.9a
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2.6.4
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3.0.8
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Release Date |
2004-07-31 (19 years ago)
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2015-07-12 (8 years ago)
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2008-10-12 (15 years ago)
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2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
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2010-11-19 (13 years ago)
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Last Update here |
2008-01-21 (16 years ago)
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2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
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2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
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2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
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2011-06-22 (12 years ago)
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Author |
Battleaxe Software
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Yves Goergen
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Phorum Dev Team
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Vanilla Forums Inc
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The phpBB Group
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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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License |
Free
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GPL
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The Phorum License (BSD)
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GPL
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General Public License
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License cost |
Free
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0
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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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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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Setup | bttlxeForum | Unclassified NewsBoard | Phorum | Vanilla | phpBB |
Installation method |
manual
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wizard
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wizard
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wizard
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Upgrade method |
manual
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wizard
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manual
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wizard with manual interactions
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Hosting available |
No
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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Technology | bttlxeForum | Unclassified NewsBoard | Phorum | Vanilla | phpBB |
Programming Language |
ASP
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PHP 5
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PHP
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PHP
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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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Data Storage |
2
Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
6
Firebird Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
Other Storage |
MS Access
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Source Code Repo | |||||
Issue Tracker | |||||
Posts | bttlxeForum | Unclassified NewsBoard | Phorum | Vanilla | phpBB |
BBCode |
Yes
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Yes
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Optional
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Plugin
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Yes
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HTML |
Yes
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No
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Optional
|
Yes
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No
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Emoticons |
Yes
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Yes
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Optional
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Plugin
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Yes
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Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
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Yes
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Optional
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Plugin
|
Yes
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WYSIWYG Editor |
No
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No
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Plugin
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Plugin
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No
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Quoting |
Nested
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Nested
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Nested
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Single
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Nested
|
Syntax Highlighting |
No
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Yes
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Plugin
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Plugin
|
Yes
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Attachments |
No
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One file
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Multiple files
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Multiple files
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Multiple files
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Tags |
Unknown
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No
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Unknown
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Yes
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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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Forums | bttlxeForum | Unclassified NewsBoard | Phorum | Vanilla | phpBB |
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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Subforums |
No
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unlimited
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multiple levels
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unlimited
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unlimited
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Last Post |
Yes
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Optional
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Redirect Forums |
No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Trashcan Forum |
No
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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Anti-Spam and Security | bttlxeForum | Unclassified NewsBoard | Phorum | Vanilla | phpBB |
CAPTCHA |
No
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Optional
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Optional
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Yes
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Yes
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Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
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Multiple groups
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Multiple groups
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Multiple groups
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Flood Control |
Patch
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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ACLs |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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Blacklist |
No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Warnings |
No
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No
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Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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Suspension |
No
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No
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Plugin
|
Yes
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Yes
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Bans |
Patch
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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IP-Block |
Patch
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Optional
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Audit Logging |
Unknown
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Yes
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Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
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User Reports |
Unknown
|
No
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Yes
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Plugin
|
Yes
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Other |
Aksimet Plugin
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Community Curation & SPAM removal
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Plugin-based CAPTCHA system, Newly Registered Users permissions
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Notification | bttlxeForum | Unclassified NewsBoard | Phorum | Vanilla | phpBB |
RSS/ATOM |
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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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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Instant Messaging |
None
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Jabber
|
0
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Jabber
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Bookmarks |
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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Community | bttlxeForum | Unclassified NewsBoard | Phorum | Vanilla | phpBB |
Avatars |
Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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User Ranks |
Yes
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No
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Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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Rating/Karma System |
No
|
No
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Plugin
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Signatures |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Users Online List |
Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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Private Messaging |
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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Custom profile fields |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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Yes
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Moderation | bttlxeForum | Unclassified NewsBoard | Phorum | Vanilla | phpBB |
Moderators |
global and forums
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global, forums and threads
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global and forums
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global, forums and threads
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global and forums
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Move Threads |
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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Split Threads |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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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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Shadow Topics |
No
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Yes
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Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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Sticky Threads |
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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Important Threads |
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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Search | bttlxeForum | Unclassified NewsBoard | Phorum | Vanilla | phpBB |
Full-text 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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Author 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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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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Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
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Database tracked
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Database tracked
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Customization | bttlxeForum | Unclassified NewsBoard | Phorum | Vanilla | phpBB |
Languages |
0
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13
Czech, German, English, French, Hungarian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Chinese |
0
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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
|
No
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Unknown
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Yes
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Unknown
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Templates |
CSS only
|
global
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
Custom BBCodes |
No
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Skin-Editor |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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Smiley Packs |
No
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Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Special Features | bttlxeForum | Unclassified NewsBoard | Phorum | Vanilla | phpBB |
Statistics |
Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
|
Yes
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Yes
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Polls |
Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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Calendar |
No
|
No
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No
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Plugin
|
No
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Friendly URLs |
No
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Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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Data Management | bttlxeForum | Unclassified NewsBoard | Phorum | Vanilla | phpBB |
Available Importers |
Invision Board 1.1.2, phpBB 2.0.x, Woltlab Burning Board 1.x
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All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
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Pruning |
Yes
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Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Archiving |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Export Formats |
None
|
none
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
SQL Dumps in .sql, sql.gz, and .sql.bz2
|
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Export private messages |
No
|
No
|
No
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Lo-Fi View |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
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