| General | Jitbit AspNetForum | Jive Forums | Vanilla | phpBB | YaBB | SMF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
6.6.0
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5.0.5
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2.6.4
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3.0.8
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2.5 AE
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2.0.6
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| Release Date |
2010-05-04 (13 years ago)
|
2006-08-29 (17 years ago)
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2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
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2010-11-19 (13 years ago)
|
2010-07-04 (13 years ago)
|
2013-10-21 (10 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2010-05-06 (13 years ago)
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2006-12-06 (17 years ago)
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2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
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2011-06-22 (12 years ago)
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2010-07-06 (13 years ago)
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2013-10-25 (10 years ago)
|
| Author |
Jitbit Software
|
Jive Software
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
The phpBB Group
|
YaBB Development Team
|
Simple Machines
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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 |
Proprietary
|
Per User
|
GPL
|
General Public License
|
YPL (Modified GNU GPL)
|
BSD
|
| License cost |
$139
|
$1,950 to $19,950
|
0
|
0.00
|
Free
|
0
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
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| Thread-Type |
Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Setup | Jitbit AspNetForum | Jive Forums | Vanilla | phpBB | YaBB | SMF |
| Installation method |
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
|
| Upgrade method |
manual
|
manual
|
wizard with manual interactions
|
wizard with manual interactions
|
wizard
|
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| Hosting available |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Technology | Jitbit AspNetForum | Jive Forums | Vanilla | phpBB | YaBB | SMF |
| Programming Language |
C#
|
Java, J2EE, JSP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
Perl
|
PHP
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
3
Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database |
5
DB2 Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
6
Firebird Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
0
|
3
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
| Other Storage |
MS Access
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| Source Code Repo | ||||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||||
| Posts | Jitbit AspNetForum | Jive Forums | Vanilla | phpBB | YaBB | SMF |
| BBCode |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Nested
|
Nested
|
Single
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
| Tags |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
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| Forums | Jitbit AspNetForum | Jive Forums | Vanilla | phpBB | YaBB | SMF |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
one level
|
unlimited
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Trashcan Forum |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | Jitbit AspNetForum | Jive Forums | Vanilla | phpBB | YaBB | SMF |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Other |
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
Plugin-based CAPTCHA system, Newly Registered Users permissions
|
trademark "the Guardian" system
|
An Akismet mod is available
|
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| Notification | Jitbit AspNetForum | Jive Forums | Vanilla | phpBB | YaBB | SMF |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
Private messaging with instant notifications
|
No
|
Jabber
|
Private message notifications and broadcast messages
|
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| Bookmarks |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Community | Jitbit AspNetForum | Jive Forums | Vanilla | phpBB | YaBB | SMF |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Users Online List |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Moderation | Jitbit AspNetForum | Jive Forums | Vanilla | phpBB | YaBB | SMF |
| Moderators |
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Search | Jitbit AspNetForum | Jive Forums | Vanilla | phpBB | YaBB | SMF |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
| Customization | Jitbit AspNetForum | Jive Forums | Vanilla | phpBB | YaBB | SMF |
| 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
|
0
|
| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
CSS only
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global
|
global and forum specific
|
| Custom BBCodes |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Skin-Editor |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Smiley Packs |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Jitbit AspNetForum | Jive Forums | Vanilla | phpBB | YaBB | SMF |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Calendar |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Data Management | Jitbit AspNetForum | Jive Forums | Vanilla | phpBB | YaBB | SMF |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
|||||
| Pruning |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Export Formats |
XML
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
SQL Dumps in .sql, sql.gz, and .sql.bz2
|
print layout; storage folders
|
WAP(2), IMode
|
|
| Export private messages |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| remove Jitbit AspNetForum | remove Jive Forums | remove Vanilla | remove phpBB | remove YaBB | remove SMF |