BurningBoard vs. dnfBB vs. Invision Power Board vs. Monkey Boards vs. Unclassified NewsBoard vs. Yazd

General	BurningBoard	dnfBB	Invision Power Board	Monkey Boards	Unclassified NewsBoard	Yazd
Version	4.1.11	2.0	3.2.3	0.4	2015-07-13	3.0 Stable-Beta
Release Date	2016-03-13 (10 years ago)	2007-03-27 (19 years ago)	2011-10-18 (14 years ago)	2007-02-19 (19 years ago)	2015-07-13 (10 years ago)	2006-01-06 (20 years ago)
Last Update here	2016-05-30 (9 years ago)	2007-03-29 (19 years ago)	2012-02-07 (14 years ago)	2007-02-20 (19 years ago)	2018-11-01 (7 years ago)	2006-11-07 (19 years ago)
Author	Woltlab GmbH	dnfBB Team	Invision Power Services	James Greenwood	Yves Goergen	Group Effort
URL	woltlab.com/wbb/	sourceforge.net/projects/dnfbb	invisionpower.com/products/board/	monkeyboards.sf.net	newsboard.unclassified.de	forumsoftware.ca
Free and Open Source	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
License	commercial / visible source	IDPL	Commercial	GPL	GPL	Apache
License cost	$89.99	N/A	License from $175 / Hosted from $5 per month	0	0	Free
Main View					Classic forum list
Thread-Type	Flat	Threaded or Flat	Flat	Flat	Flat	Threaded or Flat
Setup	BurningBoard	dnfBB	Invision Power Board	Monkey Boards	Unclassified NewsBoard	Yazd
Installation method	wizard	wizard	wizard		manual
Upgrade method	wizard	wizard	wizard		manual
Hosting available	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
Technology	BurningBoard	dnfBB	Invision Power Board	Monkey Boards	Unclassified NewsBoard	Yazd
Programming Language	PHP5	C#	PHP 5.2+	PHP	PHP 5	Java
UTF-8 Support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Data Storage	1 MySQL Database	2 Firebird Database, MySQL Database	1 MySQL Database	1 SQLite File Database	1 MySQL Database	6 DB2 Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database
Other Storage
Source Code Repo
Issue Tracker
Posts	BurningBoard	dnfBB	Invision Power Board	Monkey Boards	Unclassified NewsBoard	Yazd
BBCode	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
HTML	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Emoticons	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Formatting Toolbar	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
WYSIWYG Editor	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Optional
Quoting	Nested	Nested	Nested	None	Nested	Single
Syntax Highlighting	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Attachments	Multiple files	No	Multiple files	No	One file	Multiple files
Tags	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	No	Unknown
Mark as solved					No
Forums	BurningBoard	dnfBB	Invision Power Board	Monkey Boards	Unclassified NewsBoard	Yazd
Categories	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Subforums	unlimited	No	unlimited	No	unlimited	one level
Last Post	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Optional	Yes
Redirect Forums	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
Trashcan Forum	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No
Anti-Spam and Security	BurningBoard	dnfBB	Invision Power Board	Monkey Boards	Unclassified NewsBoard	Yazd
CAPTCHA	Yes	No	Yes	No	Optional	No
Groups	Multiple groups	Multiple groups	Multiple groups	No	Multiple groups	Multiple groups
Flood Control	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
ACLs	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
Blacklist	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes
Warnings	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes
Suspension	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Bans	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
IP-Block	Yes	No	Yes	No	Optional	Yes
Audit Logging	Yes	No	Yes	Unknown	Yes	Unknown
User Reports	Yes	No	Yes	Unknown	No	Unknown
Other			Spam Monitoring Service, Flag As Spammer, Question & Answer System
Notification	BurningBoard	dnfBB	Invision Power Board	Monkey Boards	Unclassified NewsBoard	Yazd
RSS/ATOM	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
E-Mail	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Instant Messaging	Plugin		No	0	Jabber	0
Bookmarks	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
Community	BurningBoard	dnfBB	Invision Power Board	Monkey Boards	Unclassified NewsBoard	Yazd
Avatars	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
User Ranks	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
Rating/Karma System	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes
Signatures	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Users Online List	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Private Messaging	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes
Custom profile fields	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No
Moderation	BurningBoard	dnfBB	Invision Power Board	Monkey Boards	Unclassified NewsBoard	Yazd
Moderators	global and forums	global and forums	global and forums	global	global, forums and threads	global and forums
Move Threads	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Split Threads	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No
Close Threads	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Shadow Topics	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No
Sticky Threads	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Important Threads	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
Search	BurningBoard	dnfBB	Invision Power Board	Monkey Boards	Unclassified NewsBoard	Yazd
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	No	Database tracked	Session tracked
Customization	BurningBoard	dnfBB	Invision Power Board	Monkey Boards	Unclassified NewsBoard	Yazd
Languages	0	0	0	0	13 Czech, German, English, French, Hungarian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Chinese	0
Mobile View	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	No	Unknown
Templates	global and forum specific	CSS only	global and forum specific	global	global	global and forum specific
Custom BBCodes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Patch	Yes
Skin-Editor	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes
Smiley Packs	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Plugin
Plugins	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Special Features	BurningBoard	dnfBB	Invision Power Board	Monkey Boards	Unclassified NewsBoard	Yazd
Statistics	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Polls	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
Calendar	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No
Friendly URLs	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Data Management	BurningBoard	dnfBB	Invision Power Board	Monkey Boards	Unclassified NewsBoard	Yazd
Available Importers					Invision Board 1.1.2, phpBB 2.0.x, Woltlab Burning Board 1.x
Pruning	Yes	No	Yes	No	Optional	No
Archiving	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No
Export Formats	sql		SQL	None (cannot be exported)	none	none
Export private messages	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No
Lo-Fi View	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
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