| General | DjangoBB | Jive Forums | YaBB | XMB | Vanilla | phpBB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
development
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5.0.5
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2.5 AE
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1.9.11
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2.6.4
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3.0.8
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| Release Date |
2006-08-29 (17 years ago)
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2010-07-04 (13 years ago)
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Febuary 28, 2009
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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 |
2010-12-15 (13 years ago)
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2006-12-06 (17 years ago)
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2010-07-06 (13 years ago)
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2012-03-02 (12 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 |
Alexey Afinogenov, Sergey Maranchuk
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Jive Software
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YaBB Development Team
|
The XMB Group
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Vanilla Forums Inc
|
The phpBB Group
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| URL | ||||||
| Free and Open Source |
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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Yes
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| License |
BSD
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Per User
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YPL (Modified GNU GPL)
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General Public License
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GPL
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General Public License
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| License cost |
0
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$1,950 to $19,950
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Free
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0.00
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0
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0.00
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| Main View |
Both, can be configured
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| Thread-Type |
Flat
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Threaded or Flat
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Flat
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Flat
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Flat
|
Flat
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| Setup | DjangoBB | Jive Forums | YaBB | XMB | Vanilla | phpBB |
| Installation method |
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
|
| Upgrade method |
manual
|
wizard with manual interactions
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wizard
|
manual
|
wizard with manual interactions
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| Hosting available |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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| Technology | DjangoBB | Jive Forums | YaBB | XMB | Vanilla | phpBB |
| Programming Language |
Python
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Java, J2EE, JSP
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Perl
|
php
|
PHP
|
PHP
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| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
| Data Storage |
4
MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
5
DB2 Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database |
0
|
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
6
Firebird Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
| Other Storage | ||||||
| Source Code Repo | ||||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||||
| Posts | DjangoBB | Jive Forums | YaBB | XMB | Vanilla | phpBB |
| BBCode |
Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
|
Yes
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| HTML |
No
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Yes
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Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
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No
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| Emoticons |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Nested
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Single
|
Nested
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| Attachments |
One file
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
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| Tags |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
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Yes
|
Unknown
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| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
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| Forums | DjangoBB | Jive Forums | YaBB | XMB | Vanilla | phpBB |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
No
|
unlimited
|
one level
|
one level
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Trashcan Forum |
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | DjangoBB | Jive Forums | YaBB | XMB | Vanilla | phpBB |
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
No
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Other |
trademark "the Guardian" system
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
Plugin-based CAPTCHA system, Newly Registered Users permissions
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| Notification | DjangoBB | Jive Forums | YaBB | XMB | Vanilla | phpBB |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
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| Instant Messaging |
No
|
Private message notifications and broadcast messages
|
Jabber
|
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| Bookmarks |
No
|
No
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Community | DjangoBB | Jive Forums | YaBB | XMB | Vanilla | phpBB |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Rating/Karma System |
No
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Users Online List |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Private Messaging |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| Moderation | DjangoBB | Jive Forums | YaBB | XMB | Vanilla | phpBB |
| Moderators |
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Search | DjangoBB | Jive Forums | YaBB | XMB | Vanilla | phpBB |
| Full-text search |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Session tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
| Customization | DjangoBB | Jive Forums | YaBB | XMB | Vanilla | phpBB |
| 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
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| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Skin-Editor |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Smiley Packs |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | DjangoBB | Jive Forums | YaBB | XMB | Vanilla | phpBB |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Calendar |
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Friendly URLs |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Data Management | DjangoBB | Jive Forums | YaBB | XMB | Vanilla | phpBB |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
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|||||
| Pruning |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Export Formats |
XML
|
print layout; storage folders
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
SQL Dumps in .sql, sql.gz, and .sql.bz2
|
||
| Export private messages |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
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