GroupServer vs. Vanilla vs. XMB vs. JForum vs. Unclassified NewsBoard vs. Viscacha

General GroupServer Vanilla XMB JForum Unclassified NewsBoard Viscacha
Version
1.0β
2.6.4
1.9.11
2.1.8
2015-07-13
0.8.1
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)
2010-12-03 (13 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)
2010-12-04 (13 years ago)
Author
OnlineGroups.Net
Vanilla Forums Inc
The XMB Group
Rafael Steil
Yves Goergen
The Viscacha Project
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
General Public License
BSD
GPL
GPL
License cost
$0
0
0.00
0
0
0
Main View
Both, can be configured
Classic forum list
Thread-Type
Flat
Flat
Flat
Flat
Flat
Flat
Setup GroupServer Vanilla XMB JForum Unclassified NewsBoard Viscacha
Installation method
manual
wizard
wizard
wizard
manual
wizard
Upgrade method
manual
manual
wizard
manual
manual
wizard
Hosting available
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
Technology GroupServer Vanilla XMB JForum Unclassified NewsBoard Viscacha
Programming Language
Python & Zope
PHP
php
Java
PHP 5
PHP
UTF-8 Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Data Storage
1
PostgreSQL Database
1
MySQL Database
1
MySQL Database
3
MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database
1
MySQL Database
1
MySQL Database
Other Storage
Zope Object Database
HSQLDB
Source Code Repo
Issue Tracker
Posts GroupServer Vanilla XMB JForum Unclassified NewsBoard Viscacha
BBCode
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
No
Emoticons
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Formatting Toolbar
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editor
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Quoting
None
Single
Nested
Nested
Nested
Nested
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
Attachments
Multiple files
Multiple files
Multiple files
Multiple files
One file
Multiple files
Tags
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Mark as solved
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
No
Forums GroupServer Vanilla XMB JForum Unclassified NewsBoard Viscacha
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Subforums
No
unlimited
one level
No
unlimited
unlimited
Last Post
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Redirect Forums
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Trashcan Forum
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
Anti-Spam and Security GroupServer Vanilla XMB JForum Unclassified NewsBoard Viscacha
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
No
No
Yes
Warnings
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Suspension
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Bans
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
IP-Block
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Audit Logging
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
User Reports
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Other
Spam Assasin is used for email spam control.
Community Curation & SPAM removal
E-Mail Protection
Notification GroupServer Vanilla XMB JForum Unclassified NewsBoard Viscacha
RSS/ATOM
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
E-Mail
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Instant Messaging
Integrated Chat
0
Jabber
No
Bookmarks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Community GroupServer Vanilla XMB JForum Unclassified NewsBoard Viscacha
Avatars
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
User Ranks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Rating/Karma System
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Signatures
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Users Online List
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Private Messaging
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom profile fields
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Moderation GroupServer Vanilla XMB JForum Unclassified NewsBoard Viscacha
Moderators
global and forums
global, forums and threads
global and forums
global and forums
global, forums and threads
global and forums
Move Threads
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Split Threads
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Close Threads
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Shadow Topics
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Sticky Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Important Threads
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Search GroupServer Vanilla XMB JForum Unclassified NewsBoard Viscacha
Full-text search
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Author search
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Advanced search
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unread Topics
Database tracked
Session tracked
Database tracked
Database tracked
Session tracked
Customization GroupServer Vanilla XMB JForum Unclassified NewsBoard Viscacha
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
0
Mobile View
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Templates
global and forum specific
global and forum specific
global
global
global
Custom BBCodes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Skin-Editor
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Smiley Packs
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features GroupServer Vanilla XMB JForum Unclassified NewsBoard Viscacha
Statistics
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Polls
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Friendly URLs
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Data Management GroupServer Vanilla XMB JForum Unclassified NewsBoard Viscacha
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
No
Archiving
Unknown
Yes
No
No
No
No
Export Formats
XML, mbox
Proprietary or MySQLDump
none
HTML, SQL, PDF as Plugin
Export private messages
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
Lo-Fi View
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
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