| General | Jitbit AspNetForum | Invision Power Board | Vanilla | DjangoBB | GroupServer |
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| Version |
6.6.0
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3.2.3
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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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2011-10-17 (12 years ago)
|
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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2012-02-07 (12 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
|
Invision Power Services
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
Alexey Afinogenov, Sergey Maranchuk
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OnlineGroups.Net
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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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| License |
Proprietary
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Commercial
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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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License from $175 / Hosted from $5 per month
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0
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0
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$0
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| Main View |
Both, can be configured
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| Thread-Type |
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 | Jitbit AspNetForum | Invision Power Board | Vanilla | DjangoBB | GroupServer |
| Installation method |
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
manual
|
manual
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| Upgrade method |
manual
|
wizard
|
manual
|
manual
|
manual
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| Hosting available |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Technology | Jitbit AspNetForum | Invision Power Board | Vanilla | DjangoBB | GroupServer |
| Programming Language |
C#
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PHP 5.2+
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PHP
|
Python
|
Python & Zope
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| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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| Data Storage |
3
Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database |
1
MySQL 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 | Invision Power Board | Vanilla | DjangoBB | GroupServer |
| BBCode |
Yes
|
Yes
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Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
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| HTML |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Nested
|
Nested
|
Single
|
Nested
|
None
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
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| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
One file
|
Multiple files
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| Tags |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
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| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
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| Forums | Jitbit AspNetForum | Invision Power Board | Vanilla | DjangoBB | GroupServer |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Subforums |
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
No
|
No
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Trashcan Forum |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | Jitbit AspNetForum | Invision Power Board | Vanilla | DjangoBB | GroupServer |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Audit Logging |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Other |
Spam Monitoring Service, Flag As Spammer, Question & Answer System
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
Spam Assasin is used for email spam control.
|
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| Notification | Jitbit AspNetForum | Invision Power Board | Vanilla | DjangoBB | GroupServer |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
Private messaging with instant notifications
|
No
|
Integrated Chat
|
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| Bookmarks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Community | Jitbit AspNetForum | Invision Power Board | Vanilla | DjangoBB | GroupServer |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Users Online List |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Moderation | Jitbit AspNetForum | Invision Power Board | Vanilla | DjangoBB | GroupServer |
| Moderators |
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Split Threads |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Shadow Topics |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Search | Jitbit AspNetForum | Invision Power Board | Vanilla | DjangoBB | GroupServer |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
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| Customization | Jitbit AspNetForum | Invision Power Board | Vanilla | DjangoBB | GroupServer |
| Languages |
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
|
0
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| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
CSS only
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
|
| Custom BBCodes |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Skin-Editor |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Smiley Packs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Special Features | Jitbit AspNetForum | Invision Power Board | Vanilla | DjangoBB | GroupServer |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Calendar |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Data Management | Jitbit AspNetForum | Invision Power Board | Vanilla | DjangoBB | GroupServer |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
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| Pruning |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Archiving |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Export Formats |
SQL
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
XML, mbox
|
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| Export private messages |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
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