General | Jitbit AspNetForum | FUDforum | Vanilla | DjangoBB | GroupServer |
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Version |
6.6.0
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3.0.9
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2.6.4
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development
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1.0β
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Release Date |
2010-05-04 (14 years ago)
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2018-05-17 (5 years ago)
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2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
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2010 June 16
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Last Update here |
2010-05-06 (13 years ago)
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2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
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2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
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2010-12-15 (13 years ago)
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2010-06-21 (13 years ago)
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Author |
Jitbit Software
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The FUDForum development team and user community.
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Vanilla Forums Inc
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Alexey Afinogenov, Sergey Maranchuk
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OnlineGroups.Net
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URL | |||||
Free and Open Source |
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 |
Proprietary
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GNU General Public License
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GPL
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BSD
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GPL
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License cost |
$139
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Free
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0
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0
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$0
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Main View |
Classic forum list
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Both, can be configured
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Thread-Type |
Flat
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Threaded or Flat
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Flat
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Flat
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Flat
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Setup | Jitbit AspNetForum | FUDforum | Vanilla | DjangoBB | GroupServer |
Installation method |
manual
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wizard
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wizard
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manual
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manual
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Upgrade method |
manual
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wizard
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manual
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manual
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manual
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Hosting available |
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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Technology | Jitbit AspNetForum | FUDforum | Vanilla | DjangoBB | GroupServer |
Programming Language |
C#
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PHP
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PHP
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Python
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Python & Zope
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UTF-8 Support |
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 |
3
Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database |
7
DB2 Database, Firebird Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
1
MySQL Database |
4
MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
1
PostgreSQL Database |
Other Storage |
MS Access
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Zope Object Database
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Source Code Repo | |||||
Issue Tracker | |||||
Posts | Jitbit AspNetForum | FUDforum | Vanilla | DjangoBB | GroupServer |
BBCode |
Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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Yes
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No
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HTML |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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Emoticons |
Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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Yes
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No
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Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
|
Yes
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No
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WYSIWYG Editor |
Yes
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Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
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Quoting |
Nested
|
Nested
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Single
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Nested
|
None
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Syntax Highlighting |
No
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Yes
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Plugin
|
Yes
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No
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Attachments |
Multiple files
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Multiple files
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Multiple files
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One file
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Multiple files
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Tags |
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 |
No
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A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
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Forums | Jitbit AspNetForum | FUDforum | Vanilla | DjangoBB | GroupServer |
Categories |
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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Subforums |
unlimited
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unlimited
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unlimited
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No
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No
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Last Post |
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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Redirect Forums |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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Trashcan Forum |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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Anti-Spam and Security | Jitbit AspNetForum | FUDforum | Vanilla | DjangoBB | GroupServer |
CAPTCHA |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
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Multiple groups
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Multiple groups
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Multiple groups
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Flood Control |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
|
Yes
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ACLs |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
|
Yes
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Blacklist |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
|
Yes
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Warnings |
Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
|
No
|
No
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Suspension |
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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Bans |
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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IP-Block |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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Audit Logging |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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User Reports |
Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
|
Yes
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Yes
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Other |
Several others like SpamBot detection, prevent new users from posting links, etc.
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Community Curation & SPAM removal
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Spam Assasin is used for email spam control.
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Notification | Jitbit AspNetForum | FUDforum | Vanilla | DjangoBB | GroupServer |
RSS/ATOM |
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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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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Instant Messaging |
Private messaging with instant notifications
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Yes - via ICQ, AIM, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, Jabber, Google Chat or Skype.
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Integrated Chat
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Bookmarks |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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Community | Jitbit AspNetForum | FUDforum | Vanilla | DjangoBB | GroupServer |
Avatars |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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User Ranks |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
No
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Rating/Karma System |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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No
|
No
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Signatures |
Yes
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Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
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Users Online List |
Yes
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Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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No
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Private Messaging |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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Custom profile fields |
No
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Yes
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Plugin
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Yes
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No
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Moderation | Jitbit AspNetForum | FUDforum | Vanilla | DjangoBB | GroupServer |
Moderators |
global and forums
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global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
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global and forums
|
global and forums
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Move Threads |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Unknown
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Split Threads |
No
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Yes
|
Plugin
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No
|
Unknown
|
Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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Unknown
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Shadow Topics |
No
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Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
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Unknown
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Sticky Threads |
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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Important Threads |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Unknown
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Search | Jitbit AspNetForum | FUDforum | Vanilla | DjangoBB | GroupServer |
Full-text search |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
|
Yes
|
Author search |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Advanced search |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
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Database tracked
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Database tracked
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Customization | Jitbit AspNetForum | FUDforum | Vanilla | DjangoBB | GroupServer |
Languages |
0
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0
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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
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Yes
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Yes
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Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Templates |
CSS only
|
global
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
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Custom BBCodes |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Skin-Editor |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Smiley Packs |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Special Features | Jitbit AspNetForum | FUDforum | Vanilla | DjangoBB | GroupServer |
Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Polls |
Yes
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Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
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Unknown
|
Calendar |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
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Data Management | Jitbit AspNetForum | FUDforum | Vanilla | DjangoBB | GroupServer |
Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
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Pruning |
No
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Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Archiving |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Export Formats |
PDF (Adobe), ATOM, RSS, RDF, HTML
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
XML, mbox
|
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Export private messages |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
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remove Jitbit AspNetForum | remove FUDforum | remove Vanilla | remove DjangoBB | remove GroupServer |