| General | myUPB | YaBB | Vanilla | FluxBB | MyBB | Phorum |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.2.6
|
2.5 AE
|
2.6.4
|
1.4.5
|
1.6.3
|
5.2.9a
|
| Release Date |
2009-06-05 (14 years ago)
|
2010-07-04 (13 years ago)
|
2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
|
22/03/2011
|
2011-04-16 (13 years ago)
|
2008-10-12 (15 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2009-06-09 (14 years ago)
|
2010-07-06 (13 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
|
2011-05-05 (12 years ago)
|
2011-06-22 (12 years ago)
|
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
|
| Author |
PHP Outburst
|
YaBB Development Team
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
FluxBB development team
|
MyBB Group
|
Phorum Dev Team
|
| URL | ||||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
|
YPL (Modified GNU GPL)
|
GPL
|
GPL v2
|
Custom
|
The Phorum License (BSD)
|
| License cost |
free
|
Free
|
0
|
0
|
US$0
|
0
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
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| Thread-Type |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
| Setup | myUPB | YaBB | Vanilla | FluxBB | MyBB | Phorum |
| Installation method |
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
| Upgrade method |
manual
|
wizard with manual interactions
|
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
| Hosting available |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Technology | myUPB | YaBB | Vanilla | FluxBB | MyBB | Phorum |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
Perl
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
0
|
0
|
1
MySQL Database |
3
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
3
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database |
| Other Storage | ||||||
| Source Code Repo | ||||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||||
| Posts | myUPB | YaBB | Vanilla | FluxBB | MyBB | Phorum |
| BBCode |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| HTML |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Single
|
Nested
|
Single
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Attachments |
One file
|
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 | myUPB | YaBB | Vanilla | FluxBB | MyBB | Phorum |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
No
|
one level
|
unlimited
|
No
|
unlimited
|
multiple levels
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
No
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Trashcan Forum |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | myUPB | YaBB | Vanilla | FluxBB | MyBB | Phorum |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Groups |
No
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
One group only
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Suspension |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| User Reports |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Other |
IP address log
|
trademark "the Guardian" system
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
Akismet plugin available.
|
Aksimet Plugin
|
|
| Notification | myUPB | YaBB | Vanilla | FluxBB | MyBB | Phorum |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
No
|
Private message notifications and broadcast messages
|
0
|
|||
| Bookmarks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Community | myUPB | YaBB | Vanilla | FluxBB | MyBB | Phorum |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| User Ranks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Rating/Karma System |
No
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Users Online List |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Moderation | myUPB | YaBB | Vanilla | FluxBB | MyBB | Phorum |
| 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
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Search | myUPB | YaBB | Vanilla | FluxBB | MyBB | Phorum |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Session tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
| Customization | myUPB | YaBB | Vanilla | FluxBB | MyBB | Phorum |
| 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
|
global and forum specific
|
CSS only
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
| Custom BBCodes |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Skin-Editor |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Smiley Packs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | myUPB | YaBB | Vanilla | FluxBB | MyBB | Phorum |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Polls |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Calendar |
No
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Data Management | myUPB | YaBB | Vanilla | FluxBB | MyBB | Phorum |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
|||||
| Pruning |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
No
|
No
|
| Export Formats |
full textdb export
|
print layout; storage folders
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
|||
| Export private messages |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Lo-Fi View |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| remove myUPB | remove YaBB | remove Vanilla | remove FluxBB | remove MyBB | remove Phorum |