NoNonsense Forum vs. XMB vs. Yazd vs. SMF vs. Vanilla vs. GroupServer

General NoNonsense Forum XMB Yazd SMF Vanilla GroupServer
Version
18
1.9.11
3.0 Stable-Beta
2.0.6
2.6.4
1.0β
Release Date
2012-03-04 (12 years ago)
Febuary 28, 2009
2006-01-05 (18 years ago)
2013-10-21 (10 years ago)
2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
2010 June 16
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)
2010-06-21 (13 years ago)
Author
Kroc Camen
The XMB Group
Group Effort
Simple Machines
Vanilla Forums Inc
OnlineGroups.Net
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
CC-BY 3
General Public License
Apache
BSD
GPL
GPL
License cost
0
0.00
Free
0
0
$0
Main View
Both, can be configured
Thread-Type
Flat
Flat
Threaded or Flat
Flat
Flat
Flat
Setup NoNonsense Forum XMB Yazd SMF Vanilla GroupServer
Installation method
manual
wizard
wizard
wizard
manual
Upgrade method
manual
wizard
wizard
manual
manual
Hosting available
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Technology NoNonsense Forum XMB Yazd SMF Vanilla GroupServer
Programming Language
PHP
php
Java
PHP
PHP
Python & Zope
UTF-8 Support
Yes
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
1
PostgreSQL Database
Other Storage
Zope Object Database
Source Code Repo
Issue Tracker
Posts NoNonsense Forum XMB Yazd SMF Vanilla GroupServer
BBCode
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
HTML
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Emoticons
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Formatting Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editor
No
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Nested
Nested
Single
Nested
Single
None
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Attachments
No
Multiple files
Multiple files
Multiple files
Multiple files
Multiple files
Tags
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Mark as solved
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
Forums NoNonsense Forum XMB Yazd SMF Vanilla GroupServer
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Subforums
unlimited
one level
one level
unlimited
unlimited
No
Last Post
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Redirect Forums
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Trashcan Forum
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Anti-Spam and Security NoNonsense Forum XMB Yazd SMF Vanilla GroupServer
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Groups
No
Multiple groups
Multiple groups
Multiple groups
Multiple groups
Multiple groups
Flood Control
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACLs
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Warnings
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Suspension
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Bans
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
IP-Block
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Audit Logging
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
User Reports
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Other
An Akismet mod is available
Community Curation & SPAM removal
Spam Assasin is used for email spam control.
Notification NoNonsense Forum XMB Yazd SMF Vanilla GroupServer
RSS/ATOM
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
E-Mail
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Instant Messaging
0
Integrated Chat
Bookmarks
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Community NoNonsense Forum XMB Yazd SMF Vanilla GroupServer
Avatars
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
User Ranks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Rating/Karma System
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Signatures
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Users Online List
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Private Messaging
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom profile fields
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Moderation NoNonsense Forum XMB Yazd SMF Vanilla GroupServer
Moderators
global and forums
global and forums
global and forums
global, forums and threads
global, forums and threads
global and forums
Move Threads
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Split Threads
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Close Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Shadow Topics
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Sticky Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Important Threads
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Search NoNonsense Forum XMB Yazd SMF Vanilla GroupServer
Full-text search
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Author search
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Advanced search
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unread Topics
No
Session tracked
Session tracked
Database tracked
Database tracked
Customization NoNonsense Forum XMB Yazd SMF Vanilla GroupServer
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
0
Mobile View
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
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
Unknown
Skin-Editor
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Smiley Packs
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features NoNonsense Forum XMB Yazd SMF Vanilla GroupServer
Statistics
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Polls
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Calendar
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Data Management NoNonsense Forum XMB Yazd SMF Vanilla GroupServer
Available Importers
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
Pruning
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Archiving
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Export Formats
RSS
none
WAP(2), IMode
Proprietary or MySQLDump
XML, mbox
Export private messages
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Lo-Fi View
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
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