| General | Monkey Boards | NoNonsense Forum | JForum | OvBB | Vanilla | XMB |
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| Version |
0.4
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18
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2.1.8
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0.16a
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2.6.4
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1.9.11
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| Release Date |
2007-02-19 (19 years ago)
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2012-03-05 (14 years ago)
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2008-11-01 (17 years ago)
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2007-04-06 (19 years ago)
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2018-10-29 (7 years ago)
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Febuary 28, 2009
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| Last Update here |
2007-02-20 (19 years ago)
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2012-03-05 (14 years ago)
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2008-01-02 (18 years ago)
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2008-01-21 (18 years ago)
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2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
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2012-03-02 (14 years ago)
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| Author |
James Greenwood
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Kroc Camen
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Rafael Steil
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Jonathon Freeman & Brian Otto
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Vanilla Forums Inc
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The XMB Group
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| URL | ||||||
| Free and Open Source |
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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| License |
GPL
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CC-BY 3
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BSD
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MIT
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GPL
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General Public License
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| License cost |
0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0.00
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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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Flat
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| Setup | Monkey Boards | NoNonsense Forum | JForum | OvBB | Vanilla | XMB |
| Installation method |
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
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wizard
|
wizard
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| Upgrade method |
manual
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manual
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wizard
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manual
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wizard
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| Hosting available |
Yes
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No
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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| Technology | Monkey Boards | NoNonsense Forum | JForum | OvBB | Vanilla | XMB |
| Programming Language |
PHP
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PHP
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Java
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PHP
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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 |
1
SQLite File Database |
0
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3
MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database |
2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
| Other Storage |
HSQLDB
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| Source Code Repo | ||||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||||
| Posts | Monkey Boards | NoNonsense Forum | JForum | OvBB | Vanilla | XMB |
| BBCode |
No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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Yes
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| HTML |
Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Optional
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| Emoticons |
Yes
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No
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| Formatting Toolbar |
No
|
No
|
No
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Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| WYSIWYG Editor |
No
|
No
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No
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No
|
Plugin
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No
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| Quoting |
None
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Nested
|
Nested
|
Nested
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Single
|
Nested
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
No
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No
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Yes
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Plugin
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No
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| Attachments |
No
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No
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Multiple files
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Multiple files
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Multiple files
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Multiple files
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| Tags |
Unknown
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Unknown
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Unknown
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Unknown
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Yes
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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 | Monkey Boards | NoNonsense Forum | JForum | OvBB | Vanilla | XMB |
| Categories |
Yes
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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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| Subforums |
No
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unlimited
|
No
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No
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unlimited
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one level
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| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Redirect Forums |
No
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No
|
No
|
No
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Yes
|
No
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| Trashcan Forum |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
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| Anti-Spam and Security | Monkey Boards | NoNonsense Forum | JForum | OvBB | Vanilla | XMB |
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
No
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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| Groups |
No
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No
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Multiple groups
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One group only
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
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| Flood Control |
No
|
No
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| ACLs |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Blacklist |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Warnings |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
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| Suspension |
No
|
No
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Yes
|
No
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Yes
|
Plugin
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| Bans |
Yes
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No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| User Reports |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| Other |
Community Curation & SPAM removal
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| Notification | Monkey Boards | NoNonsense Forum | JForum | OvBB | Vanilla | XMB |
| RSS/ATOM |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Instant Messaging |
0
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0
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No
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| Bookmarks |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Community | Monkey Boards | NoNonsense Forum | JForum | OvBB | Vanilla | XMB |
| Avatars |
No
|
No
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| User Ranks |
No
|
No
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Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Rating/Karma System |
No
|
No
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Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| Signatures |
No
|
No
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| Users Online List |
No
|
No
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| Private Messaging |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Custom profile fields |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
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| Moderation | Monkey Boards | NoNonsense Forum | JForum | OvBB | Vanilla | XMB |
| Moderators |
global
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Shadow Topics |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Important Threads |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Search | Monkey Boards | NoNonsense Forum | JForum | OvBB | Vanilla | XMB |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Author search |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Advanced search |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Unread Topics |
No
|
No
|
Database tracked
|
Session tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Session tracked
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| Customization | Monkey Boards | NoNonsense Forum | JForum | OvBB | Vanilla | XMB |
| Languages |
0
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0
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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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| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
global
|
global
|
global
|
global
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
| Custom BBCodes |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Skin-Editor |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Smiley Packs |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Monkey Boards | NoNonsense Forum | JForum | OvBB | Vanilla | XMB |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
No
|
No
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Calendar |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Friendly URLs |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Management | Monkey Boards | NoNonsense Forum | JForum | OvBB | Vanilla | XMB |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
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| Pruning |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Export Formats |
None (cannot be exported)
|
RSS
|
No
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
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| Export private messages |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| remove Monkey Boards | remove NoNonsense Forum | remove JForum | remove OvBB | remove Vanilla | remove XMB |