General | myUPB | YaBB | Invision Power Board | Phorum | Vanilla |
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Version |
2.2.6
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2.5 AE
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3.2.3
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5.2.9a
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2.6.4
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Release Date |
2009-06-05 (14 years ago)
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2010-07-04 (13 years ago)
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2011-10-17 (12 years ago)
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2008-10-12 (15 years ago)
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2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
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Last Update here |
2009-06-09 (14 years ago)
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2010-07-06 (13 years ago)
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2012-02-07 (12 years ago)
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2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
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2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
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Author |
PHP Outburst
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YaBB Development Team
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Invision Power Services
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Phorum Dev Team
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Vanilla Forums Inc
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URL | |||||
Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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License |
Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
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YPL (Modified GNU GPL)
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Commercial
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The Phorum License (BSD)
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GPL
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License cost |
free
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Free
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License from $175 / Hosted from $5 per month
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0
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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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Flat
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Setup | myUPB | YaBB | Invision Power Board | Phorum | Vanilla |
Installation method |
manual
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wizard
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wizard
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wizard
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wizard
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Upgrade method |
manual
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wizard with manual interactions
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wizard
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wizard
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manual
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Hosting available |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Technology | myUPB | YaBB | Invision Power Board | Phorum | Vanilla |
Programming Language |
PHP
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Perl
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PHP 5.2+
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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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Yes
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Data Storage |
0
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0
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1
MySQL Database |
2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
Other Storage | |||||
Source Code Repo | |||||
Issue Tracker | |||||
Posts | myUPB | YaBB | Invision Power Board | Phorum | Vanilla |
BBCode |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Optional
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Plugin
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HTML |
No
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Optional
|
Yes
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Optional
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Yes
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Emoticons |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Optional
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Plugin
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Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Optional
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Plugin
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WYSIWYG Editor |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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Plugin
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Quoting |
Single
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Nested
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Nested
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Nested
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Single
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Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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Plugin
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Attachments |
One file
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Multiple files
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Multiple files
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Multiple files
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Multiple files
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Tags |
Unknown
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Unknown
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Unknown
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Unknown
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Yes
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Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
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Forums | myUPB | YaBB | Invision Power Board | Phorum | Vanilla |
Categories |
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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Subforums |
No
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one level
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unlimited
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multiple levels
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unlimited
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Last Post |
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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Redirect Forums |
No
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Patch
|
Yes
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No
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Yes
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Trashcan Forum |
No
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Optional
|
Yes
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No
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Yes
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Anti-Spam and Security | myUPB | YaBB | Invision Power Board | Phorum | Vanilla |
CAPTCHA |
Yes
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Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
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Groups |
No
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Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
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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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Yes
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ACLs |
No
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Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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Warnings |
No
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Optional
|
Yes
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Plugin
|
Plugin
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Suspension |
No
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Yes
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Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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IP-Block |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Audit Logging |
No
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Optional
|
Yes
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Optional
|
Yes
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User Reports |
No
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Optional
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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Other |
IP address log
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trademark "the Guardian" system
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Spam Monitoring Service, Flag As Spammer, Question & Answer System
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Aksimet Plugin
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Community Curation & SPAM removal
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Notification | myUPB | YaBB | Invision Power Board | Phorum | Vanilla |
RSS/ATOM |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
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Instant Messaging |
No
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Private message notifications and broadcast messages
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No
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0
|
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Bookmarks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Community | myUPB | YaBB | Invision Power Board | Phorum | Vanilla |
Avatars |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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User Ranks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Rating/Karma System |
No
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Signatures |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Users Online List |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
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Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Custom profile fields |
No
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Plugin
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Moderation | myUPB | YaBB | Invision Power Board | Phorum | Vanilla |
Moderators |
global
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Split Threads |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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Shadow Topics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Important Threads |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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Search | myUPB | YaBB | Invision Power Board | Phorum | Vanilla |
Full-text search |
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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Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Advanced search |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
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Customization | myUPB | YaBB | Invision Power Board | Phorum | Vanilla |
Languages |
0
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0
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0
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0
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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 |
Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Templates |
global
|
global
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
Custom BBCodes |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Skin-Editor |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Smiley Packs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Special Features | myUPB | YaBB | Invision Power Board | Phorum | Vanilla |
Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Polls |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Calendar |
No
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Data Management | myUPB | YaBB | Invision Power Board | Phorum | Vanilla |
Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
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Pruning |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Archiving |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Export Formats |
full textdb export
|
print layout; storage folders
|
SQL
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
|
Export private messages |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Lo-Fi View |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
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