| General | NoNonsense Forum | XMB | Yazd | SMF | Vanilla |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
18
|
1.9.11
|
3.0 Stable-Beta
|
2.0.6
|
2.6.4
|
| Release Date |
2012-03-04 (12 years ago)
|
Febuary 28, 2009
|
2006-01-05 (18 years ago)
|
2013-10-21 (10 years ago)
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2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2012-03-05 (12 years ago)
|
2012-03-02 (12 years ago)
|
2006-11-07 (17 years ago)
|
2013-10-25 (10 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
|
| Author |
Kroc Camen
|
The XMB Group
|
Group Effort
|
Simple Machines
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| License |
CC-BY 3
|
General Public License
|
Apache
|
BSD
|
GPL
|
| License cost |
0
|
0.00
|
Free
|
0
|
0
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
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| Thread-Type |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Setup | NoNonsense Forum | XMB | Yazd | SMF | Vanilla |
| Installation method |
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
|
| Upgrade method |
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
manual
|
|
| Hosting available |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
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| Technology | NoNonsense Forum | XMB | Yazd | SMF | Vanilla |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
php
|
Java
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
0
|
1
MySQL Database |
6
DB2 Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
3
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
1
MySQL Database |
| Other Storage | |||||
| Source Code Repo | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Posts | NoNonsense Forum | XMB | Yazd | SMF | Vanilla |
| BBCode |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| HTML |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Emoticons |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Nested
|
Nested
|
Single
|
Nested
|
Single
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Attachments |
No
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
| Tags |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
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| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
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| Forums | NoNonsense Forum | XMB | Yazd | SMF | Vanilla |
| Categories |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
unlimited
|
one level
|
one level
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Trashcan Forum |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | NoNonsense Forum | XMB | Yazd | SMF | Vanilla |
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Groups |
No
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Suspension |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
An Akismet mod is available
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
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| Notification | NoNonsense Forum | XMB | Yazd | SMF | Vanilla |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
0
|
||||
| Bookmarks |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Community | NoNonsense Forum | XMB | Yazd | SMF | Vanilla |
| Avatars |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Rating/Karma System |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Signatures |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Users Online List |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Private Messaging |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Moderation | NoNonsense Forum | XMB | Yazd | SMF | Vanilla |
| Moderators |
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
global, forums and threads
|
| Move Threads |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Search | NoNonsense Forum | XMB | Yazd | SMF | Vanilla |
| Full-text search |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
No
|
Session tracked
|
Session tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
| Customization | NoNonsense Forum | XMB | Yazd | SMF | Vanilla |
| Languages |
0
|
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 |
| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Templates |
global
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
| Custom BBCodes |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Skin-Editor |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Smiley Packs |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | NoNonsense Forum | XMB | Yazd | SMF | Vanilla |
| Statistics |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Data Management | NoNonsense Forum | XMB | Yazd | SMF | Vanilla |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
||||
| Pruning |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Export Formats |
RSS
|
none
|
WAP(2), IMode
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
|
| Export private messages |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
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