| General | myUPB | SMF | Vanilla | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.2.6
|
2.0.6
|
2.6.4
|
10.1, 9.4 LTS and 6.10 LTS
|
| Release Date |
2009-06-05 (14 years ago)
|
2013-10-21 (10 years ago)
|
2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
|
2013-02-08 (11 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2009-06-09 (14 years ago)
|
2013-10-25 (10 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
|
2013-02-19 (11 years ago)
|
| Author |
PHP Outburst
|
Simple Machines
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
Tiki Software Community Association
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
|
BSD
|
GPL
|
LGPL
|
| License cost |
free
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
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| Thread-Type |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
| Setup | myUPB | SMF | Vanilla | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| Installation method |
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
| Upgrade method |
manual
|
wizard
|
manual
|
wizard
|
| Hosting available |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Technology | myUPB | SMF | Vanilla | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
0
|
3
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
| Other Storage | ||||
| Source Code Repo | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Posts | myUPB | SMF | Vanilla | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| BBCode |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| HTML |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Quoting |
Single
|
Nested
|
Single
|
Nested
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Attachments |
One file
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
One file
|
| Tags |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
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| Forums | myUPB | SMF | Vanilla | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
No
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
one level
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Trashcan Forum |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | myUPB | SMF | Vanilla | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Groups |
No
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Warnings |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Suspension |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| User Reports |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Other |
IP address log
|
An Akismet mod is available
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
|
| Notification | myUPB | SMF | Vanilla | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
No
|
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| Bookmarks |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Community | myUPB | SMF | Vanilla | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Rating/Karma System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Users Online List |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Moderation | myUPB | SMF | Vanilla | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| Moderators |
global
|
global, forums and threads
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Shadow Topics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Search | myUPB | SMF | Vanilla | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
|
| Customization | myUPB | SMF | Vanilla | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| 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
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| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
global
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
| Custom BBCodes |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Skin-Editor |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Smiley Packs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | myUPB | SMF | Vanilla | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Calendar |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Management | myUPB | SMF | Vanilla | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
|||
| Pruning |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Export Formats |
full textdb export
|
WAP(2), IMode
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
|
| Export private messages |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Lo-Fi View |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
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