Monkey Boards vs. Vanilla vs. phpBB vs. MyBB vs. JForum vs. Beehive Forum

General Monkey Boards Vanilla phpBB MyBB JForum Beehive Forum
Version
0.4
2.6.4
3.0.8
1.6.3
2.1.8
1.4.7
Release Date
2007-02-18 (17 years ago)
2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
2010-11-19 (13 years ago)
2011-04-16 (12 years ago)
2008-10-31 (15 years ago)
2015-06-03 (8 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-02-19 (17 years ago)
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
2011-06-22 (12 years ago)
2011-06-22 (12 years ago)
2008-01-02 (16 years ago)
2016-02-08 (8 years ago)
Author
James Greenwood
Vanilla Forums Inc
The phpBB Group
MyBB Group
Rafael Steil
Matt Beale, Mark Rendle
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
General Public License
Custom
BSD
GPL
License cost
0
0
0.00
US$0
0
0
Main View
Both, can be configured
Thread-Type
Flat
Flat
Flat
Threaded or Flat
Flat
Threaded or Flat
Setup Monkey Boards Vanilla phpBB MyBB JForum Beehive Forum
Installation method
wizard
wizard
wizard
wizard
wizard
Upgrade method
manual
wizard with manual interactions
wizard
manual
wizard
Hosting available
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Technology Monkey Boards Vanilla phpBB MyBB JForum Beehive Forum
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Java
PHP
UTF-8 Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Data Storage
1
SQLite File Database
1
MySQL Database
6
Firebird Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database
3
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database
3
MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database
1
MySQL Database
Other Storage
HSQLDB
Source Code Repo
Issue Tracker
Posts Monkey Boards Vanilla phpBB MyBB JForum Beehive Forum
BBCode
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Emoticons
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Formatting Toolbar
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editor
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Quoting
None
Single
Nested
Nested
Nested
Nested
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Attachments
No
Multiple files
Multiple files
Multiple files
Multiple files
Multiple files
Tags
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Mark as solved
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
Forums Monkey Boards Vanilla phpBB MyBB JForum Beehive Forum
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Subforums
No
unlimited
unlimited
unlimited
No
Last Post
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Redirect Forums
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Trashcan Forum
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Anti-Spam and Security Monkey Boards Vanilla phpBB MyBB JForum Beehive Forum
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Groups
No
Multiple groups
Multiple groups
Multiple groups
Multiple groups
Multiple groups
Flood Control
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACLs
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Warnings
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Suspension
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Bans
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
IP-Block
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Audit Logging
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
User Reports
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Other
Community Curation & SPAM removal
Plugin-based CAPTCHA system, Newly Registered Users permissions
Akismet plugin available.
Worming, Pilllorying
Notification Monkey Boards Vanilla phpBB MyBB JForum Beehive Forum
RSS/ATOM
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
E-Mail
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Instant Messaging
0
Jabber
0
Yes
Bookmarks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Community Monkey Boards Vanilla phpBB MyBB JForum Beehive Forum
Avatars
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
User Ranks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Rating/Karma System
No
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Signatures
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Users Online List
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Private Messaging
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom profile fields
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Moderation Monkey Boards Vanilla phpBB MyBB JForum Beehive Forum
Moderators
global
global, forums and threads
global and forums
global and forums
global and forums
global, forums and threads
Move Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Split Threads
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Close Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Shadow Topics
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Sticky Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Important Threads
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Search Monkey Boards Vanilla phpBB MyBB JForum Beehive Forum
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
No
Database tracked
Database tracked
Database tracked
Database tracked
Database tracked
Customization Monkey Boards Vanilla phpBB MyBB JForum 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
0
0
0
Mobile View
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Templates
global
global and forum specific
global and forum specific
global and forum specific
global
CSS only
Custom BBCodes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Skin-Editor
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Smiley Packs
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features Monkey Boards Vanilla phpBB MyBB JForum Beehive Forum
Statistics
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Polls
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Calendar
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Friendly URLs
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Data Management Monkey Boards Vanilla phpBB MyBB JForum Beehive Forum
Available Importers
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
Pruning
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Archiving
No
Yes
No
No
No
Unknown
Export Formats
None (cannot be exported)
Proprietary or MySQLDump
SQL Dumps in .sql, sql.gz, and .sql.bz2
Export private messages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Lo-Fi View
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
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