BurningBoard vs. YetAnotherForum.NET vs. Vanilla vs. vBulletin vs. phpBB vs. idealBB

General BurningBoard YetAnotherForum.NET Vanilla vBulletin phpBB idealBB
Version
4.1.11
v1.9.3
2.6.4
4.1.5
3.0.8
Ideal BB.Net Version 3.1.6
Release Date
2016-03-12 (8 years ago)
2009-04-21 (14 years ago)
2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
2011-07-26 (12 years ago)
2010-11-19 (13 years ago)
2006-12-03 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-05-30 (7 years ago)
2009-08-02 (14 years ago)
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
2011-08-25 (12 years ago)
2011-06-22 (12 years ago)
2006-12-04 (17 years ago)
Author
Woltlab GmbH
Tiny Gecko
Vanilla Forums Inc
vBulletin Solutions
The phpBB Group
Ideal Science, Inc.
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
License
commercial / visible source
GPL v2.0
GPL
commercial / visible source
General Public License
License cost
$89.99
Free
0
$285 Suite or $195 Forum
0.00
$299 - $24,999
Main View
Both, can be configured
Thread-Type
Flat
Threaded or Flat
Flat
Threaded or Flat
Flat
Threaded
Setup BurningBoard YetAnotherForum.NET Vanilla vBulletin phpBB idealBB
Installation method
wizard
wizard
wizard
wizard
wizard
Upgrade method
wizard
wizard with manual interactions
manual
wizard with manual interactions
wizard with manual interactions
Hosting available
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Technology BurningBoard YetAnotherForum.NET Vanilla vBulletin phpBB idealBB
Programming Language
PHP5
ASP.NET, C#
PHP
PHP
PHP
ASP.Net, C #
UTF-8 Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Data Storage
1
MySQL Database
1
Microsoft SQL Database
1
MySQL Database
1
MySQL Database
6
Firebird Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database
1
MySQL Database
Other Storage
Source Code Repo
Issue Tracker
Posts BurningBoard YetAnotherForum.NET Vanilla vBulletin phpBB idealBB
BBCode
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Emoticons
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Formatting Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Quoting
Nested
Nested
Single
Nested
Nested
Single
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Attachments
Multiple files
Multiple files
Multiple files
Multiple files
Multiple files
Multiple files
Tags
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Mark as solved
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
Forums BurningBoard YetAnotherForum.NET Vanilla vBulletin phpBB idealBB
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Subforums
unlimited
unlimited
unlimited
unlimited
unlimited
one level
Last Post
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Redirect Forums
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trashcan Forum
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
No
Anti-Spam and Security BurningBoard YetAnotherForum.NET Vanilla vBulletin phpBB idealBB
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Groups
Multiple groups
Multiple groups
Multiple groups
Multiple groups
Multiple groups
Multiple groups
Flood Control
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
ACLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Warnings
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Suspension
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Bans
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
IP-Block
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Audit Logging
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
User Reports
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Other
Community Curation & SPAM removal
Akismet
Plugin-based CAPTCHA system, Newly Registered Users permissions
Notification BurningBoard YetAnotherForum.NET Vanilla vBulletin phpBB idealBB
RSS/ATOM
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
E-Mail
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Instant Messaging
Plugin
Jabber
No
Bookmarks
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Community BurningBoard YetAnotherForum.NET Vanilla vBulletin phpBB idealBB
Avatars
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
User Ranks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Rating/Karma System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
No
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Moderation BurningBoard YetAnotherForum.NET Vanilla vBulletin phpBB idealBB
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Split Threads
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Close Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Shadow Topics
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Sticky Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Important Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Search BurningBoard YetAnotherForum.NET Vanilla vBulletin phpBB idealBB
Full-text search
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Author search
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Advanced search
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unread Topics
Database tracked
Session tracked
Database tracked
Database tracked
Database tracked
Customization BurningBoard YetAnotherForum.NET Vanilla vBulletin phpBB idealBB
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
global and forum specific
global and forum specific
global
Custom BBCodes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Skin-Editor
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Smiley Packs
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features BurningBoard YetAnotherForum.NET Vanilla vBulletin phpBB idealBB
Statistics
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Polls
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Calendar
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Data Management BurningBoard YetAnotherForum.NET Vanilla vBulletin phpBB idealBB
Available Importers
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
Pruning
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Archiving
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Export Formats
sql
Proprietary or MySQLDump
Single Table CSV, Single and Multi-Table SQL
SQL Dumps in .sql, sql.gz, and .sql.bz2
Export private messages
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Lo-Fi View
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
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