| General | dnfBB | idealBB | Phorum | Vanilla | XMB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.0
|
Ideal BB.Net Version 3.1.6
|
5.2.9a
|
2.6.4
|
1.9.11
|
| Release Date |
2007-03-27 (19 years ago)
|
2006-12-04 (19 years ago)
|
2008-10-13 (17 years ago)
|
2018-10-29 (7 years ago)
|
Febuary 28, 2009
|
| Last Update here |
2007-03-29 (19 years ago)
|
2006-12-04 (19 years ago)
|
2008-10-16 (17 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
|
2012-03-02 (14 years ago)
|
| Author |
dnfBB Team
|
Ideal Science, Inc.
|
Phorum Dev Team
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
The XMB Group
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
IDPL
|
The Phorum License (BSD)
|
GPL
|
General Public License
|
|
| License cost |
N/A
|
$299 - $24,999
|
0
|
0
|
0.00
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
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| Thread-Type |
Threaded or Flat
|
Threaded
|
Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Setup | dnfBB | idealBB | Phorum | Vanilla | XMB |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
|
| Upgrade method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
manual
|
wizard
|
|
| Hosting available |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Technology | dnfBB | idealBB | Phorum | Vanilla | XMB |
| Programming Language |
C#
|
ASP.Net, C #
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
php
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
2
Firebird Database, MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
| Other Storage | |||||
| Source Code Repo | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Posts | dnfBB | idealBB | Phorum | Vanilla | XMB |
| BBCode |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| HTML |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Nested
|
Single
|
Nested
|
Single
|
Nested
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Attachments |
No
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
| Tags |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
||||
| Forums | dnfBB | idealBB | Phorum | Vanilla | XMB |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
No
|
one level
|
multiple levels
|
unlimited
|
one level
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Trashcan Forum |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | dnfBB | idealBB | Phorum | Vanilla | XMB |
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Bans |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
No
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Other |
Aksimet Plugin
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
|||
| Notification | dnfBB | idealBB | Phorum | Vanilla | XMB |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
No
|
0
|
|||
| Bookmarks |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Community | dnfBB | idealBB | Phorum | Vanilla | XMB |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Rating/Karma System |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Users Online List |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Private Messaging |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Moderation | dnfBB | idealBB | Phorum | Vanilla | XMB |
| Moderators |
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Search | dnfBB | idealBB | Phorum | Vanilla | XMB |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Session tracked
|
|
| Customization | dnfBB | idealBB | Phorum | Vanilla | XMB |
| Languages |
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
|
| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
CSS only
|
global
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
| Custom BBCodes |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Skin-Editor |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Smiley Packs |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | dnfBB | idealBB | Phorum | Vanilla | XMB |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Calendar |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Friendly URLs |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Management | dnfBB | idealBB | Phorum | Vanilla | XMB |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
||||
| Pruning |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Export Formats |
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
||||
| Export private messages |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Lo-Fi View |
No
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| remove dnfBB | remove idealBB | remove Phorum | remove Vanilla | remove XMB |