| General | GroupServer | Vanilla | Viscacha | Beehive Forum | phpBB | XMB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.0β
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2.6.4
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0.8.1
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1.4.7
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3.0.8
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1.9.11
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| Release Date |
2010 June 16
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2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
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2010-12-03 (13 years ago)
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2015-06-03 (8 years ago)
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2010-11-19 (13 years ago)
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Febuary 28, 2009
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| Last Update here |
2010-06-21 (13 years ago)
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2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
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2010-12-04 (13 years ago)
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2016-02-08 (8 years ago)
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2011-06-22 (12 years ago)
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2012-03-02 (12 years ago)
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| Author |
OnlineGroups.Net
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
The Viscacha Project
|
Matt Beale, Mark Rendle
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The phpBB Group
|
The XMB Group
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| URL | ||||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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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 |
GPL
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GPL
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GPL
|
GPL
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General Public License
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General Public License
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| License cost |
$0
|
0
|
0
|
0
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0.00
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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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Flat
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Flat
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Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
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| Setup | GroupServer | Vanilla | Viscacha | Beehive Forum | phpBB | XMB |
| Installation method |
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
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| Upgrade method |
manual
|
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard with manual interactions
|
wizard
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| Hosting available |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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Yes
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No
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No
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| Technology | GroupServer | Vanilla | Viscacha | Beehive Forum | phpBB | XMB |
| Programming Language |
Python & Zope
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
php
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
1
PostgreSQL Database |
1
MySQL 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 |
Zope Object Database
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| Source Code Repo | ||||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||||
| Posts | GroupServer | Vanilla | Viscacha | Beehive Forum | phpBB | XMB |
| BBCode |
No
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Plugin
|
Yes
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No
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Yes
|
Yes
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| HTML |
No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
|
No
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Optional
|
| Emoticons |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| WYSIWYG Editor |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Quoting |
None
|
Single
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
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| Tags |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
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Unknown
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Unknown
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Unknown
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| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
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| Forums | GroupServer | Vanilla | Viscacha | Beehive Forum | phpBB | XMB |
| Categories |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
No
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
one level
|
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Trashcan Forum |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | GroupServer | Vanilla | Viscacha | Beehive Forum | phpBB | XMB |
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Other |
Spam Assasin is used for email spam control.
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
E-Mail Protection
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Worming, Pilllorying
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Plugin-based CAPTCHA system, Newly Registered Users permissions
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| Notification | GroupServer | Vanilla | Viscacha | Beehive Forum | phpBB | XMB |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
Integrated Chat
|
No
|
Yes
|
Jabber
|
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| Bookmarks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Community | GroupServer | Vanilla | Viscacha | Beehive Forum | phpBB | XMB |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Rating/Karma System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Signatures |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Users Online List |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Moderation | GroupServer | Vanilla | Viscacha | Beehive Forum | phpBB | XMB |
| Moderators |
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
| Move Threads |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Close Threads |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Search | GroupServer | Vanilla | Viscacha | Beehive Forum | phpBB | XMB |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Session tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Session tracked
|
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| Customization | GroupServer | Vanilla | Viscacha | Beehive Forum | phpBB | XMB |
| Languages |
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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0
|
0
|
0
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| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
global and forum specific
|
global
|
CSS only
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Skin-Editor |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Smiley Packs |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Plugins |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | GroupServer | Vanilla | Viscacha | Beehive Forum | phpBB | XMB |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Friendly URLs |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Data Management | GroupServer | Vanilla | Viscacha | Beehive Forum | phpBB | XMB |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
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| Pruning |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Export Formats |
XML, mbox
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
HTML, SQL, PDF as Plugin
|
SQL Dumps in .sql, sql.gz, and .sql.bz2
|
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| Export private messages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
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