dnfBB vs. XMB vs. JForum vs. Yazd vs. Vanilla

General dnfBB XMB JForum Yazd Vanilla
Version
2.0
1.9.11
2.1.8
3.0 Stable-Beta
2.6.4
Release Date
2007-03-26 (17 years ago)
Febuary 28, 2009
2008-10-31 (15 years ago)
2006-01-05 (18 years ago)
2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-03-29 (16 years ago)
2012-03-02 (12 years ago)
2008-01-02 (16 years ago)
2006-11-07 (17 years ago)
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
Author
dnfBB Team
The XMB Group
Rafael Steil
Group Effort
Vanilla Forums Inc
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
IDPL
General Public License
BSD
Apache
GPL
License cost
N/A
0.00
0
Free
0
Main View
Both, can be configured
Thread-Type
Threaded or Flat
Flat
Flat
Threaded or Flat
Flat
Setup dnfBB XMB JForum Yazd Vanilla
Installation method
wizard
wizard
wizard
wizard
Upgrade method
wizard
wizard
manual
manual
Hosting available
No
No
No
No
Yes
Technology dnfBB XMB JForum Yazd Vanilla
Programming Language
C#
php
Java
Java
PHP
UTF-8 Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Data Storage
2
Firebird Database, MySQL Database
1
MySQL Database
3
MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database
6
DB2 Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database
1
MySQL Database
Other Storage
HSQLDB
Source Code Repo
Issue Tracker
Posts dnfBB XMB JForum Yazd Vanilla
BBCode
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Emoticons
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Formatting Toolbar
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editor
No
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Quoting
Nested
Nested
Nested
Single
Single
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Attachments
No
Multiple files
Multiple files
Multiple files
Multiple files
Tags
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Mark as solved
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
Forums dnfBB XMB JForum Yazd Vanilla
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Subforums
No
one level
No
one level
unlimited
Last Post
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Redirect Forums
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Trashcan Forum
No
No
No
No
Yes
Anti-Spam and Security dnfBB XMB JForum Yazd Vanilla
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Groups
Multiple groups
Multiple groups
Multiple groups
Multiple groups
Multiple groups
Flood Control
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Warnings
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Suspension
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Bans
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
IP-Block
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Audit Logging
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
User Reports
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Other
Community Curation & SPAM removal
Notification dnfBB XMB JForum Yazd Vanilla
RSS/ATOM
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
E-Mail
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Instant Messaging
0
0
Bookmarks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Community dnfBB XMB JForum Yazd Vanilla
Avatars
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
User Ranks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Rating/Karma System
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Signatures
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Users Online List
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Private Messaging
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom profile fields
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Moderation dnfBB XMB JForum Yazd Vanilla
Moderators
global and forums
global and forums
global and forums
global and forums
global, forums and threads
Move Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Split Threads
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Close Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Shadow Topics
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Sticky Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Important Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Search dnfBB XMB JForum Yazd Vanilla
Full-text search
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Author search
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Advanced search
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unread Topics
Database tracked
Session tracked
Database tracked
Session tracked
Database tracked
Customization dnfBB XMB JForum Yazd Vanilla
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
Mobile View
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Templates
CSS only
global and forum specific
global
global and forum specific
global and forum specific
Custom BBCodes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Skin-Editor
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Smiley Packs
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features dnfBB XMB JForum Yazd Vanilla
Statistics
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Polls
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Calendar
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Friendly URLs
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Data Management dnfBB XMB JForum Yazd Vanilla
Available Importers
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
Pruning
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Archiving
No
No
No
No
Yes
Export Formats
none
Proprietary or MySQLDump
Export private messages
No
No
No
No
Yes
Lo-Fi View
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
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