GroupServer vs. Vanilla vs. XMB vs. OvBB vs. JForum vs. Yazd

General GroupServer Vanilla XMB OvBB JForum Yazd
Version
1.0β
2.6.4
1.9.11
0.16a
2.1.8
3.0 Stable-Beta
Release Date
2010 June 16
2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
Febuary 28, 2009
2007-04-05 (16 years ago)
2008-10-31 (15 years ago)
2006-01-05 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-06-21 (13 years ago)
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
2012-03-02 (12 years ago)
2008-01-21 (16 years ago)
2008-01-02 (16 years ago)
2006-11-07 (17 years ago)
Author
OnlineGroups.Net
Vanilla Forums Inc
The XMB Group
Jonathon Freeman & Brian Otto
Rafael Steil
Group Effort
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
General Public License
MIT
BSD
Apache
License cost
$0
0
0.00
0
0
Free
Main View
Both, can be configured
Thread-Type
Flat
Flat
Flat
Flat
Flat
Threaded or Flat
Setup GroupServer Vanilla XMB OvBB JForum Yazd
Installation method
manual
wizard
wizard
wizard
wizard
Upgrade method
manual
manual
wizard
wizard
manual
Hosting available
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
Technology GroupServer Vanilla XMB OvBB JForum Yazd
Programming Language
Python & Zope
PHP
php
PHP
Java
Java
UTF-8 Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Data Storage
1
PostgreSQL Database
1
MySQL Database
1
MySQL Database
2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database
3
MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database
6
DB2 Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database
Other Storage
Zope Object Database
HSQLDB
Source Code Repo
Issue Tracker
Posts GroupServer Vanilla XMB OvBB JForum Yazd
BBCode
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Emoticons
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Formatting Toolbar
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editor
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Optional
Quoting
None
Single
Nested
Nested
Nested
Single
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Attachments
Multiple files
Multiple files
Multiple files
Multiple files
Multiple files
Multiple files
Tags
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Mark as solved
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
Forums GroupServer Vanilla XMB OvBB JForum Yazd
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Subforums
No
unlimited
one level
No
No
one level
Last Post
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Redirect Forums
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
Trashcan Forum
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
Anti-Spam and Security GroupServer Vanilla XMB OvBB JForum Yazd
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Groups
Multiple groups
Multiple groups
Multiple groups
One group only
Multiple groups
Multiple groups
Flood Control
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Warnings
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Suspension
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Bans
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
IP-Block
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Audit Logging
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
User Reports
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Other
Spam Assasin is used for email spam control.
Community Curation & SPAM removal
Notification GroupServer Vanilla XMB OvBB JForum Yazd
RSS/ATOM
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
E-Mail
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Instant Messaging
Integrated Chat
No
0
0
Bookmarks
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Community GroupServer Vanilla XMB OvBB JForum Yazd
Avatars
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
User Ranks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Rating/Karma System
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
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
Plugin
No
No
No
Moderation GroupServer Vanilla XMB OvBB JForum Yazd
Moderators
global and forums
global, forums and threads
global and forums
global
global and forums
global and forums
Move Threads
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Split Threads
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Close Threads
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Shadow Topics
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Sticky Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Important Threads
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Search GroupServer Vanilla XMB OvBB JForum Yazd
Full-text search
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Author search
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Advanced search
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unread Topics
Database tracked
Session tracked
Session tracked
Database tracked
Session tracked
Customization GroupServer Vanilla XMB OvBB JForum Yazd
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
0
0
Mobile View
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Templates
global and forum specific
global and forum specific
global
global
global and forum specific
Custom BBCodes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Skin-Editor
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Smiley Packs
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features GroupServer Vanilla XMB OvBB JForum Yazd
Statistics
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Polls
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Friendly URLs
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Data Management GroupServer Vanilla XMB OvBB JForum Yazd
Available Importers
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
Pruning
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Archiving
Unknown
Yes
No
No
No
No
Export Formats
XML, mbox
Proprietary or MySQLDump
No
none
Export private messages
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
Lo-Fi View
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
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