| General | GroupServer | Vanilla | XMB | JForum | Unclassified NewsBoard |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.0β
|
2.6.4
|
1.9.11
|
2.1.8
|
2015-07-13
|
| Release Date |
2010 June 16
|
2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
|
Febuary 28, 2009
|
2008-10-31 (15 years ago)
|
2015-07-12 (8 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2010-06-21 (13 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
|
2012-03-02 (12 years ago)
|
2008-01-02 (16 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
|
| Author |
OnlineGroups.Net
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
The XMB Group
|
Rafael Steil
|
Yves Goergen
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
GPL
|
General Public License
|
BSD
|
GPL
|
| License cost |
$0
|
0
|
0.00
|
0
|
0
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
Classic forum list
|
|||
| Thread-Type |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Setup | GroupServer | Vanilla | XMB | JForum | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Installation method |
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
manual
|
| Upgrade method |
manual
|
manual
|
wizard
|
manual
|
manual
|
| Hosting available |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Technology | GroupServer | Vanilla | XMB | JForum | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Programming Language |
Python & Zope
|
PHP
|
php
|
Java
|
PHP 5
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
1
PostgreSQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
3
MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
| Other Storage |
Zope Object Database
|
HSQLDB
|
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| Source Code Repo | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Posts | GroupServer | Vanilla | XMB | JForum | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| BBCode |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Emoticons |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Quoting |
None
|
Single
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
One file
|
| Tags |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
No
|
|||
| Forums | GroupServer | Vanilla | XMB | JForum | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
No
|
unlimited
|
one level
|
No
|
unlimited
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Redirect Forums |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Trashcan Forum |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | GroupServer | Vanilla | XMB | JForum | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
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
|
No
|
No
|
| Warnings |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| IP-Block |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Audit Logging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
Spam Assasin is used for email spam control.
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
|||
| Notification | GroupServer | Vanilla | XMB | JForum | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
Integrated Chat
|
0
|
Jabber
|
||
| Bookmarks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Community | GroupServer | Vanilla | XMB | JForum | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Rating/Karma System |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Signatures |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Users Online List |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Custom profile fields |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Moderation | GroupServer | Vanilla | XMB | JForum | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Moderators |
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
| Move Threads |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Close Threads |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Search | GroupServer | Vanilla | XMB | JForum | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Session tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
|
| Customization | GroupServer | Vanilla | XMB | JForum | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| 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
|
0
|
13
Czech, German, English, French, Hungarian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Chinese |
| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Templates |
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global
|
global
|
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| Skin-Editor |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Smiley Packs |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugins |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | GroupServer | Vanilla | XMB | JForum | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Friendly URLs |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Management | GroupServer | Vanilla | XMB | JForum | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
Invision Board 1.1.2, phpBB 2.0.x, Woltlab Burning Board 1.x
|
|||
| Pruning |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Archiving |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Export Formats |
XML, mbox
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
none
|
||
| Export private messages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
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