| General | Monkey Boards | XMB | Vanilla | dnfBB | YaBB | phpBB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
0.4
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1.9.11
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2.6.4
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2.0
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2.5 AE
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3.0.8
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| Release Date |
2007-02-18 (17 years ago)
|
Febuary 28, 2009
|
2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
|
2007-03-26 (17 years ago)
|
2010-07-04 (13 years ago)
|
2010-11-19 (13 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2007-02-19 (17 years ago)
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2012-03-02 (12 years ago)
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2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
|
2007-03-29 (17 years ago)
|
2010-07-06 (13 years ago)
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2011-06-22 (12 years ago)
|
| Author |
James Greenwood
|
The XMB Group
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
dnfBB Team
|
YaBB Development Team
|
The phpBB Group
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| URL | ||||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
General Public License
|
GPL
|
IDPL
|
YPL (Modified GNU GPL)
|
General Public License
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| License cost |
0
|
0.00
|
0
|
N/A
|
Free
|
0.00
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
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| Thread-Type |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Setup | Monkey Boards | XMB | Vanilla | dnfBB | YaBB | phpBB |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
|
| Upgrade method |
wizard
|
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard with manual interactions
|
wizard with manual interactions
|
|
| Hosting available |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
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Yes
|
No
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| Technology | Monkey Boards | XMB | Vanilla | dnfBB | YaBB | phpBB |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
php
|
PHP
|
C#
|
Perl
|
PHP
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
1
SQLite File Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
2
Firebird Database, MySQL Database |
0
|
6
Firebird Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
| Other Storage | ||||||
| Source Code Repo | ||||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||||
| Posts | Monkey Boards | XMB | Vanilla | dnfBB | YaBB | phpBB |
| BBCode |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Quoting |
None
|
Nested
|
Single
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Attachments |
No
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
No
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
| Tags |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
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| Forums | Monkey Boards | XMB | Vanilla | dnfBB | YaBB | phpBB |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
No
|
one level
|
unlimited
|
No
|
one level
|
unlimited
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Trashcan Forum |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | Monkey Boards | XMB | Vanilla | dnfBB | YaBB | phpBB |
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| 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
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Suspension |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Other |
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
trademark "the Guardian" system
|
Plugin-based CAPTCHA system, Newly Registered Users permissions
|
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| Notification | Monkey Boards | XMB | Vanilla | dnfBB | YaBB | phpBB |
| RSS/ATOM |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
0
|
Private message notifications and broadcast messages
|
Jabber
|
|||
| Bookmarks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Community | Monkey Boards | XMB | Vanilla | dnfBB | YaBB | phpBB |
| Avatars |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Rating/Karma System |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Patch
|
Patch
|
| Signatures |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Users Online List |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Private Messaging |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Moderation | Monkey Boards | XMB | Vanilla | dnfBB | YaBB | phpBB |
| Moderators |
global
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Search | Monkey Boards | XMB | Vanilla | dnfBB | YaBB | phpBB |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| 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
|
Database tracked
|
| Customization | Monkey Boards | XMB | Vanilla | dnfBB | YaBB | phpBB |
| Languages |
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
|
0
|
0
|
| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
global
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
CSS only
|
global
|
global and forum specific
|
| Custom BBCodes |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Skin-Editor |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Smiley Packs |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Monkey Boards | XMB | Vanilla | dnfBB | YaBB | phpBB |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Friendly URLs |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Data Management | Monkey Boards | XMB | Vanilla | dnfBB | YaBB | phpBB |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
|||||
| Pruning |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Export Formats |
None (cannot be exported)
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
print layout; storage folders
|
SQL Dumps in .sql, sql.gz, and .sql.bz2
|
||
| Export private messages |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
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