| General | GroupServer | XMB | Yazd | Vanilla | bttlxeForum | Unclassified NewsBoard |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.0β
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1.9.11
|
3.0 Stable-Beta
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2.6.4
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2.0
|
2015-07-13
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| Release Date |
2010 June 16
|
Febuary 28, 2009
|
2006-01-05 (18 years ago)
|
2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
|
2004-07-31 (19 years ago)
|
2015-07-12 (8 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2010-06-21 (13 years ago)
|
2012-03-02 (12 years ago)
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2006-11-07 (17 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
|
2008-01-21 (16 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
|
| Author |
OnlineGroups.Net
|
The XMB Group
|
Group Effort
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
Battleaxe Software
|
Yves Goergen
|
| URL | ||||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| License |
GPL
|
General Public License
|
Apache
|
GPL
|
Free
|
GPL
|
| License cost |
$0
|
0.00
|
Free
|
0
|
Free
|
0
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
Classic forum list
|
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| Thread-Type |
Flat
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Flat
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Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
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| Setup | GroupServer | XMB | Yazd | Vanilla | bttlxeForum | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Installation method |
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
manual
|
||
| Upgrade method |
manual
|
wizard
|
manual
|
manual
|
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| Hosting available |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Technology | GroupServer | XMB | Yazd | Vanilla | bttlxeForum | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Programming Language |
Python & Zope
|
php
|
Java
|
PHP
|
ASP
|
PHP 5
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
1
PostgreSQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
6
DB2 Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
1
MySQL Database |
2
Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
| Other Storage |
Zope Object Database
|
MS Access
|
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| Source Code Repo | ||||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||||
| Posts | GroupServer | XMB | Yazd | Vanilla | bttlxeForum | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| BBCode |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Emoticons |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Quoting |
None
|
Nested
|
Single
|
Single
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
No
|
One file
|
| Tags |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
No
|
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| Forums | GroupServer | XMB | Yazd | Vanilla | bttlxeForum | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
No
|
one level
|
one level
|
unlimited
|
No
|
unlimited
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Redirect Forums |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Trashcan Forum |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | GroupServer | XMB | Yazd | Vanilla | bttlxeForum | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Warnings |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
No
|
| IP-Block |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Optional
|
| Audit Logging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Other |
Spam Assasin is used for email spam control.
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
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| Notification | GroupServer | XMB | Yazd | Vanilla | bttlxeForum | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
Integrated Chat
|
0
|
None
|
Jabber
|
||
| Bookmarks |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Community | GroupServer | XMB | Yazd | Vanilla | bttlxeForum | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Rating/Karma System |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Signatures |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Users Online List |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Custom profile fields |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Moderation | GroupServer | XMB | Yazd | Vanilla | bttlxeForum | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Moderators |
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
| Move Threads |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Close Threads |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Search | GroupServer | XMB | Yazd | Vanilla | bttlxeForum | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Session tracked
|
Session tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
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| Customization | GroupServer | XMB | Yazd | Vanilla | bttlxeForum | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Languages |
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 |
0
|
13
Czech, German, English, French, Hungarian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Chinese |
| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Templates |
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
CSS only
|
global
|
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Skin-Editor |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Smiley Packs |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Plugins |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | GroupServer | XMB | Yazd | Vanilla | bttlxeForum | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Friendly URLs |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Data Management | GroupServer | XMB | Yazd | Vanilla | bttlxeForum | 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
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Archiving |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Export Formats |
XML, mbox
|
none
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
None
|
none
|
|
| Export private messages |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
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