| General | FluxBB | MyBB | SMF | vBulletin | Vanilla |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.4.5
|
1.6.3
|
2.0.6
|
4.1.5
|
2.6.4
|
| Release Date |
22/03/2011
|
2011-04-16 (13 years ago)
|
2013-10-21 (10 years ago)
|
2011-07-26 (12 years ago)
|
2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2011-05-05 (12 years ago)
|
2011-06-22 (12 years ago)
|
2013-10-25 (10 years ago)
|
2011-08-25 (12 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
|
| Author |
FluxBB development team
|
MyBB Group
|
Simple Machines
|
vBulletin Solutions
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL v2
|
Custom
|
BSD
|
commercial / visible source
|
GPL
|
| License cost |
0
|
US$0
|
0
|
$285 Suite or $195 Forum
|
0
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
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| Thread-Type |
Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
|
| Setup | FluxBB | MyBB | SMF | vBulletin | Vanilla |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
| Upgrade method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard with manual interactions
|
manual
|
| Hosting available |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Technology | FluxBB | MyBB | SMF | vBulletin | Vanilla |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
3
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
3
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
3
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
| Other Storage | |||||
| Source Code Repo | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Posts | FluxBB | MyBB | SMF | vBulletin | Vanilla |
| BBCode |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| HTML |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Nested
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Single
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
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 | FluxBB | MyBB | SMF | vBulletin | Vanilla |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
No
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Trashcan Forum |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | FluxBB | MyBB | SMF | vBulletin | Vanilla |
| CAPTCHA |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Groups |
One group only
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Suspension |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
Akismet plugin available.
|
An Akismet mod is available
|
Akismet
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
|
| Notification | FluxBB | MyBB | SMF | vBulletin | Vanilla |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging | |||||
| Bookmarks |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Community | FluxBB | MyBB | SMF | vBulletin | Vanilla |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Users Online List |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Private Messaging |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Moderation | FluxBB | MyBB | SMF | vBulletin | Vanilla |
| Moderators |
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Search | FluxBB | MyBB | SMF | vBulletin | Vanilla |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Session tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
| Customization | FluxBB | MyBB | SMF | vBulletin | 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 and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Skin-Editor |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Smiley Packs |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | FluxBB | MyBB | SMF | vBulletin | Vanilla |
| Statistics |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Calendar |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Friendly URLs |
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Management | FluxBB | MyBB | SMF | vBulletin | Vanilla |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
||||
| Pruning |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
Patch
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Export Formats |
WAP(2), IMode
|
Single Table CSV, Single and Multi-Table SQL
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
||
| Export private messages |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Lo-Fi View |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| remove FluxBB | remove MyBB | remove SMF | remove vBulletin | remove Vanilla |