Monkey Boards vs. YaBB vs. XMB vs. Vanilla vs. Yazd vs. phpBB

General Monkey Boards YaBB XMB Vanilla Yazd phpBB
Version
0.4
2.5 AE
1.9.11
2.6.4
3.0 Stable-Beta
3.0.8
Release Date
2007-02-18 (17 years ago)
2010-07-04 (13 years ago)
Febuary 28, 2009
2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
2006-01-05 (18 years ago)
2010-11-19 (13 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-02-19 (17 years ago)
2010-07-06 (13 years ago)
2012-03-02 (12 years ago)
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
2006-11-07 (17 years ago)
2011-06-22 (12 years ago)
Author
James Greenwood
YaBB Development Team
The XMB Group
Vanilla Forums Inc
Group Effort
The phpBB Group
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
YPL (Modified GNU GPL)
General Public License
GPL
Apache
General Public License
License cost
0
Free
0.00
0
Free
0.00
Main View
Both, can be configured
Thread-Type
Flat
Flat
Flat
Flat
Threaded or Flat
Flat
Setup Monkey Boards YaBB XMB Vanilla Yazd phpBB
Installation method
wizard
wizard
wizard
wizard
Upgrade method
wizard with manual interactions
wizard
manual
wizard with manual interactions
Hosting available
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Technology Monkey Boards YaBB XMB Vanilla Yazd phpBB
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
php
PHP
Java
PHP
UTF-8 Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Data Storage
1
SQLite File Database
0
1
MySQL Database
1
MySQL Database
6
DB2 Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database
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 YaBB XMB Vanilla Yazd phpBB
BBCode
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
HTML
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Emoticons
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Formatting Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editor
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Quoting
None
Nested
Nested
Single
Single
Nested
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Attachments
No
Multiple files
Multiple files
Multiple files
Multiple files
Multiple files
Tags
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Mark as solved
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
Forums Monkey Boards YaBB XMB Vanilla Yazd phpBB
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Subforums
No
one level
one level
unlimited
one level
unlimited
Last Post
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Redirect Forums
No
Patch
No
Yes
No
Yes
Trashcan Forum
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
Anti-Spam and Security Monkey Boards YaBB XMB Vanilla Yazd phpBB
CAPTCHA
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
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
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Warnings
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Suspension
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Bans
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
IP-Block
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Audit Logging
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
User Reports
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Other
trademark "the Guardian" system
Community Curation & SPAM removal
Plugin-based CAPTCHA system, Newly Registered Users permissions
Notification Monkey Boards YaBB XMB Vanilla Yazd phpBB
RSS/ATOM
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
E-Mail
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Instant Messaging
0
Private message notifications and broadcast messages
0
Jabber
Bookmarks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Community Monkey Boards YaBB XMB Vanilla Yazd phpBB
Avatars
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
User Ranks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Rating/Karma System
No
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
Signatures
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Users Online List
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Private Messaging
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom profile fields
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Moderation Monkey Boards YaBB XMB Vanilla Yazd phpBB
Moderators
global
global and forums
global and forums
global, forums and threads
global and forums
global and forums
Move Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Split Threads
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Close Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Shadow Topics
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Sticky Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Important Threads
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Search Monkey Boards YaBB XMB Vanilla Yazd phpBB
Full-text search
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Author search
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Advanced search
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unread Topics
No
Database tracked
Session tracked
Database tracked
Session tracked
Database tracked
Customization Monkey Boards YaBB XMB Vanilla Yazd phpBB
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
0
0
Mobile View
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Templates
global
global
global and forum specific
global and forum specific
global and forum specific
global and forum specific
Custom BBCodes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Skin-Editor
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Smiley Packs
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Monkey Boards YaBB XMB Vanilla Yazd phpBB
Statistics
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Polls
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Calendar
No
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Friendly URLs
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Data Management Monkey Boards YaBB XMB Vanilla Yazd phpBB
Available Importers
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
Pruning
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Archiving
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Export Formats
None (cannot be exported)
print layout; storage folders
Proprietary or MySQLDump
none
SQL Dumps in .sql, sql.gz, and .sql.bz2
Export private messages
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Lo-Fi View
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
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