| General | miniBB | bbPress | SMF | Vanilla |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.4
|
0.9.0.4
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2.0.6
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2.6.4
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| Release Date |
2008-08-17 (15 years ago)
|
2009-01-02 (15 years ago)
|
2013-10-21 (10 years ago)
|
2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2009-09-02 (14 years ago)
|
2009-03-11 (15 years ago)
|
2013-10-25 (10 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
|
| Author |
miniBB Team
|
bbpress.org
|
Simple Machines
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
GPL2
|
BSD
|
GPL
|
| License cost |
Free
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
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| Thread-Type |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Setup | miniBB | bbPress | SMF | Vanilla |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
| Upgrade method |
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
manual
|
| Hosting available |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Technology | miniBB | bbPress | SMF | Vanilla |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
3
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
1
MySQL Database |
| Other Storage | ||||
| Source Code Repo | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Posts | miniBB | bbPress | SMF | Vanilla |
| BBCode |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| HTML |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Emoticons |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Single
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Single
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
| Tags |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
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| Forums | miniBB | bbPress | SMF | Vanilla |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
one level
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Trashcan Forum |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | miniBB | bbPress | SMF | Vanilla |
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Groups |
No
|
One group only
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
An Akismet mod is available
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
||
| Notification | miniBB | bbPress | SMF | Vanilla |
| RSS/ATOM |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
0
|
Plugin
|
||
| Bookmarks |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Community | miniBB | bbPress | SMF | Vanilla |
| Avatars |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Signatures |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Users Online List |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Private Messaging |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Moderation | miniBB | bbPress | SMF | Vanilla |
| Moderators |
global and forums
|
global
|
global, forums and threads
|
global, forums and threads
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Search | miniBB | bbPress | SMF | Vanilla |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
|
| Customization | miniBB | bbPress | SMF | Vanilla |
| Languages |
0
|
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 |
| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Templates |
global
|
global
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Skin-Editor |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Smiley Packs |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | miniBB | bbPress | SMF | Vanilla |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Friendly URLs |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Data Management | miniBB | bbPress | SMF | Vanilla |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
|||
| Pruning |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Export Formats |
Users' logins/emails can be exported in CSV or TXT
|
BBXF
|
WAP(2), IMode
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
| Export private messages |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
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