| General | Monkey Boards | XMB | dnfBB | Beehive Forum | Vanilla | OvBB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
0.4
|
1.9.11
|
2.0
|
1.4.7
|
2.6.4
|
0.16a
|
| Release Date |
2007-02-18 (17 years ago)
|
Febuary 28, 2009
|
2007-03-26 (17 years ago)
|
2015-06-03 (8 years ago)
|
2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
|
2007-04-05 (17 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2007-02-19 (17 years ago)
|
2012-03-02 (12 years ago)
|
2007-03-29 (17 years ago)
|
2016-02-08 (8 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
|
2008-01-21 (16 years ago)
|
| Author |
James Greenwood
|
The XMB Group
|
dnfBB Team
|
Matt Beale, Mark Rendle
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
Jonathon Freeman & Brian Otto
|
| URL | ||||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
General Public License
|
IDPL
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
MIT
|
| License cost |
0
|
0.00
|
N/A
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
|||||
| Thread-Type |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Setup | Monkey Boards | XMB | dnfBB | Beehive Forum | Vanilla | OvBB |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
|
| Upgrade method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
manual
|
wizard
|
|
| Hosting available |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Technology | Monkey Boards | XMB | dnfBB | Beehive Forum | Vanilla | OvBB |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
php
|
C#
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
1
SQLite File Database |
1
MySQL Database |
2
Firebird Database, MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database |
| Other Storage | ||||||
| Source Code Repo | ||||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||||
| Posts | Monkey Boards | XMB | dnfBB | Beehive Forum | Vanilla | OvBB |
| BBCode |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| HTML |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Quoting |
None
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Single
|
Nested
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Attachments |
No
|
Multiple files
|
No
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
| Tags |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
|||||
| Forums | Monkey Boards | XMB | dnfBB | Beehive Forum | Vanilla | OvBB |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
No
|
one level
|
No
|
unlimited
|
No
|
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Trashcan Forum |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | Monkey Boards | XMB | dnfBB | Beehive Forum | Vanilla | OvBB |
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Groups |
No
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
One group only
|
| Flood Control |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Suspension |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Audit Logging |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| User Reports |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Other |
Worming, Pilllorying
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
||||
| Notification | Monkey Boards | XMB | dnfBB | Beehive Forum | Vanilla | OvBB |
| RSS/ATOM |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
0
|
Yes
|
No
|
|||
| Bookmarks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Community | Monkey Boards | XMB | dnfBB | Beehive Forum | Vanilla | OvBB |
| Avatars |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Rating/Karma System |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Signatures |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Users Online List |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Private Messaging |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Moderation | Monkey Boards | XMB | dnfBB | Beehive Forum | Vanilla | OvBB |
| Moderators |
global
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
global, forums and threads
|
global
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Search | Monkey Boards | XMB | dnfBB | Beehive Forum | Vanilla | OvBB |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
No
|
Session tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Session tracked
|
| Customization | Monkey Boards | XMB | dnfBB | Beehive Forum | Vanilla | OvBB |
| Languages |
0
|
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 |
0
|
| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
global
|
global and forum specific
|
CSS only
|
CSS only
|
global and forum specific
|
global
|
| Custom BBCodes |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Skin-Editor |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Smiley Packs |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Monkey Boards | XMB | dnfBB | Beehive Forum | Vanilla | OvBB |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Polls |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Friendly URLs |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Data Management | Monkey Boards | XMB | dnfBB | Beehive Forum | Vanilla | OvBB |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
|||||
| Pruning |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Archiving |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Export Formats |
None (cannot be exported)
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
No
|
|||
| Export private messages |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| remove Monkey Boards | remove XMB | remove dnfBB | remove Beehive Forum | remove Vanilla | remove OvBB |