General | myUPB | Vanilla | FluxBB | MyBB |
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Version |
2.2.6
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2.6.4
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1.4.5
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1.6.3
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Release Date |
2009-06-05 (14 years ago)
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2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
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22/03/2011
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2011-04-16 (13 years ago)
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Last Update here |
2009-06-09 (14 years ago)
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2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
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2011-05-05 (13 years ago)
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2011-06-22 (12 years ago)
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Author |
PHP Outburst
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Vanilla Forums Inc
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FluxBB development team
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MyBB Group
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URL | ||||
Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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License |
Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
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GPL
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GPL v2
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Custom
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License cost |
free
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0
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0
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US$0
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Main View |
Both, can be configured
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Thread-Type |
Flat
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Flat
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Flat
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Threaded or Flat
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Setup | myUPB | Vanilla | FluxBB | MyBB |
Installation method |
manual
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wizard
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wizard
|
wizard
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Upgrade method |
manual
|
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
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Hosting available |
No
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Yes
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No
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No
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Technology | myUPB | Vanilla | FluxBB | MyBB |
Programming Language |
PHP
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PHP
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PHP
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PHP
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UTF-8 Support |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Data Storage |
0
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1
MySQL Database |
3
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
3
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
Other Storage | ||||
Source Code Repo | ||||
Issue Tracker | ||||
Posts | myUPB | Vanilla | FluxBB | MyBB |
BBCode |
Yes
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Plugin
|
Yes
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Yes
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HTML |
No
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Yes
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Patch
|
Yes
|
Emoticons |
Yes
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Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
WYSIWYG Editor |
No
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Plugin
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Patch
|
Plugin
|
Quoting |
Single
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Single
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Nested
|
Nested
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Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
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Plugin
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Patch
|
Yes
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Attachments |
One file
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Multiple files
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No
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Multiple files
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Tags |
Unknown
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Yes
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Unknown
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Unknown
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Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
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Forums | myUPB | Vanilla | FluxBB | MyBB |
Categories |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Subforums |
No
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unlimited
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No
|
unlimited
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Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Redirect Forums |
No
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Trashcan Forum |
No
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Yes
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No
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Plugin
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Anti-Spam and Security | myUPB | Vanilla | FluxBB | MyBB |
CAPTCHA |
Yes
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Yes
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Patch
|
Yes
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Groups |
No
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Multiple groups
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One group only
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Multiple groups
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Flood Control |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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ACLs |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Blacklist |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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Warnings |
No
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Plugin
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Patch
|
Yes
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Suspension |
No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Bans |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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IP-Block |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Audit Logging |
No
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
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User Reports |
No
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Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Other |
IP address log
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Community Curation & SPAM removal
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Akismet plugin available.
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Notification | myUPB | Vanilla | FluxBB | MyBB |
RSS/ATOM |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
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Instant Messaging |
No
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Bookmarks |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Community | myUPB | Vanilla | FluxBB | MyBB |
Avatars |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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User Ranks |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Rating/Karma System |
No
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Yes
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Patch
|
Yes
|
Signatures |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Users Online List |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Custom profile fields |
No
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
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Moderation | myUPB | Vanilla | FluxBB | MyBB |
Moderators |
global
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
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Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Split Threads |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Shadow Topics |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Important Threads |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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Search | myUPB | Vanilla | FluxBB | MyBB |
Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Advanced search |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Unread Topics |
Database tracked
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Database tracked
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Session tracked
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Database tracked
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Customization | myUPB | Vanilla | FluxBB | MyBB |
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
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0
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Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Yes
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Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Templates |
global
|
global and forum specific
|
CSS only
|
global and forum specific
|
Custom BBCodes |
No
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Skin-Editor |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Smiley Packs |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Special Features | myUPB | Vanilla | FluxBB | MyBB |
Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Polls |
No
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Data Management | myUPB | Vanilla | FluxBB | MyBB |
Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
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Pruning |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Archiving |
No
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
No
|
Export Formats |
full textdb export
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
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Export private messages |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Lo-Fi View |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
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