| General | idealBB | BurningBoard | phpBB | Vanilla | EvilBoard | miniBB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
Ideal BB.Net Version 3.1.6
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4.1.11
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3.0.8
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2.6.4
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0.1a
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2.4
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| Release Date |
2006-12-03 (17 years ago)
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2016-03-12 (8 years ago)
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2010-11-19 (13 years ago)
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2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
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2006-10-02 (17 years ago)
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2008-08-17 (15 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2006-12-04 (17 years ago)
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2016-05-30 (7 years ago)
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2011-06-22 (12 years ago)
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2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
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2008-01-21 (16 years ago)
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2009-09-02 (14 years ago)
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| Author |
Ideal Science, Inc.
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Woltlab GmbH
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The phpBB Group
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Vanilla Forums Inc
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Arne-Christian Blystad
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miniBB Team
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| URL | ||||||
| Free and Open Source |
No
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No
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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 |
commercial / visible source
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General Public License
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GPL
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LGPL
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GPL
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| License cost |
$299 - $24,999
|
$89.99
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0.00
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0
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Free
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| Main View |
Both, can be configured
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| Thread-Type |
Threaded
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Flat
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Flat
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Flat
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Flat
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Flat
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| Setup | idealBB | BurningBoard | phpBB | Vanilla | EvilBoard | miniBB |
| Installation method |
wizard
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wizard
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wizard
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wizard
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| Upgrade method |
wizard
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wizard with manual interactions
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manual
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manual
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| Hosting available |
Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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No
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| Technology | idealBB | BurningBoard | phpBB | Vanilla | EvilBoard | miniBB |
| Programming Language |
ASP.Net, C #
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PHP5
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PHP
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PHP
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PHP
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PHP
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| UTF-8 Support |
No
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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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| Data Storage |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
6
Firebird Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
| Other Storage | ||||||
| Source Code Repo | ||||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||||
| Posts | idealBB | BurningBoard | phpBB | Vanilla | EvilBoard | miniBB |
| BBCode |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
|
No
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Yes
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| HTML |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
|
No
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Optional
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| Emoticons |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Single
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Single
|
None
|
Single
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| Syntax Highlighting |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
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| Attachments |
Multiple files
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Multiple files
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Multiple files
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Multiple files
|
No
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Multiple files
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| Tags |
Unknown
|
Unknown
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Unknown
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Yes
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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 | idealBB | BurningBoard | phpBB | Vanilla | EvilBoard | miniBB |
| Categories |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Subforums |
one level
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
No
|
one level
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| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Redirect Forums |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
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| Trashcan Forum |
No
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Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Anti-Spam and Security | idealBB | BurningBoard | phpBB | Vanilla | EvilBoard | miniBB |
| CAPTCHA |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
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| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
No
|
| Flood Control |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| ACLs |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Warnings |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
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| Suspension |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| IP-Block |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Audit Logging |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| User Reports |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
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| Other |
Plugin-based CAPTCHA system, Newly Registered Users permissions
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Community Curation & SPAM removal
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| Notification | idealBB | BurningBoard | phpBB | Vanilla | EvilBoard | miniBB |
| RSS/ATOM |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
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| Instant Messaging |
No
|
Plugin
|
Jabber
|
0
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| Bookmarks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
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| Community | idealBB | BurningBoard | phpBB | Vanilla | EvilBoard | miniBB |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| User Ranks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Rating/Karma System |
No
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Users Online List |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Custom profile fields |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
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| Moderation | idealBB | BurningBoard | phpBB | Vanilla | EvilBoard | miniBB |
| Moderators |
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Close Threads |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Important Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| Search | idealBB | BurningBoard | phpBB | Vanilla | EvilBoard | miniBB |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
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| Customization | idealBB | BurningBoard | phpBB | Vanilla | EvilBoard | miniBB |
| 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
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0
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| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
global
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
None
|
global
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Skin-Editor |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Smiley Packs |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Plugins |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | idealBB | BurningBoard | phpBB | Vanilla | EvilBoard | miniBB |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Calendar |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Friendly URLs |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Data Management | idealBB | BurningBoard | phpBB | Vanilla | EvilBoard | miniBB |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
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| Pruning |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Archiving |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Export Formats |
sql
|
SQL Dumps in .sql, sql.gz, and .sql.bz2
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
Users' logins/emails can be exported in CSV or TXT
|
||
| Export private messages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
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