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