| General | BurningBoard | vBulletin | Vanilla | bttlxeForum | XMB | YaBB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
4.1.11
|
4.1.5
|
2.6.4
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2.0
|
1.9.11
|
2.5 AE
|
| Release Date |
2016-03-12 (8 years ago)
|
2011-07-26 (12 years ago)
|
2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
|
2004-07-31 (19 years ago)
|
Febuary 28, 2009
|
2010-07-04 (13 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2016-05-30 (7 years ago)
|
2011-08-25 (12 years ago)
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2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
|
2008-01-21 (16 years ago)
|
2012-03-02 (12 years ago)
|
2010-07-06 (13 years ago)
|
| Author |
Woltlab GmbH
|
vBulletin Solutions
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
Battleaxe Software
|
The XMB Group
|
YaBB Development Team
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| URL | ||||||
| Free and Open Source |
No
|
No
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
| License |
commercial / visible source
|
commercial / visible source
|
GPL
|
Free
|
General Public License
|
YPL (Modified GNU GPL)
|
| License cost |
$89.99
|
$285 Suite or $195 Forum
|
0
|
Free
|
0.00
|
Free
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
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| Thread-Type |
Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Setup | BurningBoard | vBulletin | Vanilla | bttlxeForum | XMB | YaBB |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
|
| Upgrade method |
wizard
|
wizard with manual interactions
|
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard with manual interactions
|
|
| Hosting available |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Technology | BurningBoard | vBulletin | Vanilla | bttlxeForum | XMB | YaBB |
| Programming Language |
PHP5
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
ASP
|
php
|
Perl
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
2
Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
0
|
| Other Storage |
MS Access
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| Source Code Repo | ||||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||||
| Posts | BurningBoard | vBulletin | Vanilla | bttlxeForum | XMB | YaBB |
| BBCode |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Nested
|
Nested
|
Single
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
No
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
| Tags |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
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| Forums | BurningBoard | vBulletin | Vanilla | bttlxeForum | XMB | YaBB |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
No
|
one level
|
one level
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Trashcan Forum |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | BurningBoard | vBulletin | Vanilla | bttlxeForum | XMB | YaBB |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| User Reports |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Other |
Akismet
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
trademark "the Guardian" system
|
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| Notification | BurningBoard | vBulletin | Vanilla | bttlxeForum | XMB | YaBB |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
Plugin
|
None
|
Private message notifications and broadcast messages
|
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| Bookmarks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Community | BurningBoard | vBulletin | Vanilla | bttlxeForum | XMB | YaBB |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Users Online List |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Moderation | BurningBoard | vBulletin | Vanilla | bttlxeForum | XMB | YaBB |
| Moderators |
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Search | BurningBoard | vBulletin | Vanilla | bttlxeForum | XMB | YaBB |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Session tracked
|
Database tracked
|
|
| Customization | BurningBoard | vBulletin | Vanilla | bttlxeForum | XMB | YaBB |
| Languages |
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
|
0
|
0
|
| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
CSS only
|
global and forum specific
|
global
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Skin-Editor |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Smiley Packs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | BurningBoard | vBulletin | Vanilla | bttlxeForum | XMB | YaBB |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Calendar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Data Management | BurningBoard | vBulletin | Vanilla | bttlxeForum | XMB | YaBB |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
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| Pruning |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Export Formats |
sql
|
Single Table CSV, Single and Multi-Table SQL
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
None
|
print layout; storage folders
|
|
| Export private messages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| remove BurningBoard | remove vBulletin | remove Vanilla | remove bttlxeForum | remove XMB | remove YaBB |