| General | Jive Forums | Vanilla | GroupServer | dnfBB | Monkey Boards | Beehive Forum |
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| Version |
5.0.5
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2.6.4
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1.0β
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2.0
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0.4
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1.4.7
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| Release Date |
2006-08-29 (17 years ago)
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2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
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2010 June 16
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2007-03-26 (17 years ago)
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2007-02-18 (17 years ago)
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2015-06-03 (8 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2006-12-06 (17 years ago)
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2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
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2010-06-21 (13 years ago)
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2007-03-29 (17 years ago)
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2007-02-19 (17 years ago)
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2016-02-08 (8 years ago)
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| Author |
Jive Software
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Vanilla Forums Inc
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OnlineGroups.Net
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dnfBB Team
|
James Greenwood
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Matt Beale, Mark Rendle
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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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Yes
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| License |
Per User
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GPL
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GPL
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IDPL
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GPL
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GPL
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| License cost |
$1,950 to $19,950
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0
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$0
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N/A
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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 |
Threaded or Flat
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Flat
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Flat
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Threaded or Flat
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Flat
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Threaded or Flat
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| Setup | Jive Forums | Vanilla | GroupServer | dnfBB | Monkey Boards | Beehive Forum |
| Installation method |
wizard
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manual
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wizard
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wizard
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| Upgrade method |
manual
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manual
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wizard
|
wizard
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| Hosting available |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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| Technology | Jive Forums | Vanilla | GroupServer | dnfBB | Monkey Boards | Beehive Forum |
| Programming Language |
Java, J2EE, JSP
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PHP
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Python & Zope
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C#
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PHP
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PHP
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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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Yes
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| Data Storage |
5
DB2 Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
PostgreSQL Database |
2
Firebird Database, MySQL Database |
1
SQLite File Database |
1
MySQL Database |
| Other Storage |
Zope Object Database
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| Source Code Repo | ||||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||||
| Posts | Jive Forums | Vanilla | GroupServer | dnfBB | Monkey Boards | Beehive Forum |
| BBCode |
No
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Plugin
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No
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Yes
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No
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No
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| HTML |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Emoticons |
Yes
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Plugin
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No
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
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No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
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| WYSIWYG Editor |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
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Yes
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| Quoting |
Nested
|
Single
|
None
|
Nested
|
None
|
Nested
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| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
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Plugin
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No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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| Attachments |
Multiple files
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Multiple files
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Multiple files
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No
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No
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Multiple files
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| Tags |
Unknown
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Yes
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Unknown
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Unknown
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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 | Jive Forums | Vanilla | GroupServer | dnfBB | Monkey Boards | Beehive Forum |
| 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 |
unlimited
|
unlimited
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No
|
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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Yes
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| Redirect Forums |
No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
|
No
|
No
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| Trashcan Forum |
Optional
|
Yes
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No
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No
|
No
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Optional
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| Anti-Spam and Security | Jive Forums | Vanilla | GroupServer | dnfBB | Monkey Boards | Beehive Forum |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
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Optional
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| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
No
|
Multiple groups
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| Flood Control |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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No
|
No
|
Yes
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| Warnings |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
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Unknown
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| Suspension |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| IP-Block |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
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| Audit Logging |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
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| Other |
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
Spam Assasin is used for email spam control.
|
Worming, Pilllorying
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| Notification | Jive Forums | Vanilla | GroupServer | dnfBB | Monkey Boards | Beehive Forum |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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No
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
|
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| Instant Messaging |
No
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Integrated Chat
|
0
|
Yes
|
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| Bookmarks |
No
|
Yes
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No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Community | Jive Forums | Vanilla | GroupServer | dnfBB | Monkey Boards | Beehive Forum |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
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Yes
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| Signatures |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Users Online List |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
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| Custom profile fields |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
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Optional
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| Moderation | Jive Forums | Vanilla | GroupServer | dnfBB | Monkey Boards | Beehive Forum |
| Moderators |
global, forums and threads
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global
|
global, forums and threads
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Important Threads |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Search | Jive Forums | Vanilla | GroupServer | dnfBB | Monkey Boards | Beehive Forum |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
No
|
Database tracked
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| Customization | Jive Forums | Vanilla | GroupServer | dnfBB | Monkey Boards | Beehive Forum |
| Languages |
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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0
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0
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| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
CSS only
|
global
|
CSS only
|
|
| Custom BBCodes |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Skin-Editor |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Smiley Packs |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Special Features | Jive Forums | Vanilla | GroupServer | dnfBB | Monkey Boards | Beehive Forum |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Friendly URLs |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Data Management | Jive Forums | Vanilla | GroupServer | dnfBB | Monkey Boards | Beehive Forum |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
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| Pruning |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Archiving |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Export Formats |
XML
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
XML, mbox
|
None (cannot be exported)
|
||
| Export private messages |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Lo-Fi View |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
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