| General | OvBB | Vanilla | Yazd | dnfBB | Monkey Boards | GroupServer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
0.16a
|
2.6.4
|
3.0 Stable-Beta
|
2.0
|
0.4
|
1.0β
|
| Release Date |
2007-04-06 (18 years ago)
|
2018-10-29 (7 years ago)
|
2006-01-06 (19 years ago)
|
2007-03-27 (18 years ago)
|
2007-02-19 (18 years ago)
|
2010 June 16
|
| Last Update here |
2008-01-21 (17 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
|
2006-11-07 (19 years ago)
|
2007-03-29 (18 years ago)
|
2007-02-20 (18 years ago)
|
2010-06-21 (15 years ago)
|
| Author |
Jonathon Freeman & Brian Otto
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
Group Effort
|
dnfBB Team
|
James Greenwood
|
OnlineGroups.Net
|
| URL | ||||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
MIT
|
GPL
|
Apache
|
IDPL
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
| License cost |
0
|
0
|
Free
|
N/A
|
0
|
$0
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
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| Thread-Type |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Setup | OvBB | Vanilla | Yazd | dnfBB | Monkey Boards | GroupServer |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
manual
|
||
| Upgrade method |
wizard
|
manual
|
wizard
|
manual
|
||
| Hosting available |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Technology | OvBB | Vanilla | Yazd | dnfBB | Monkey Boards | GroupServer |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
Java
|
C#
|
PHP
|
Python & Zope
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
6
DB2 Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
2
Firebird Database, MySQL Database |
1
SQLite File Database |
1
PostgreSQL Database |
| Other Storage |
Zope Object Database
|
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| Source Code Repo | ||||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||||
| Posts | OvBB | Vanilla | Yazd | dnfBB | Monkey Boards | GroupServer |
| BBCode |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| HTML |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Nested
|
Single
|
Single
|
Nested
|
None
|
None
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
No
|
No
|
Multiple files
|
| Tags |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
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| Forums | OvBB | Vanilla | Yazd | dnfBB | Monkey Boards | GroupServer |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
No
|
unlimited
|
one level
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Trashcan Forum |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | OvBB | Vanilla | Yazd | dnfBB | Monkey Boards | GroupServer |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Groups |
One group only
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
No
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Suspension |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Audit Logging |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Other |
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
Spam Assasin is used for email spam control.
|
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| Notification | OvBB | Vanilla | Yazd | dnfBB | Monkey Boards | GroupServer |
| RSS/ATOM |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
No
|
0
|
0
|
Integrated Chat
|
||
| Bookmarks |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Community | OvBB | Vanilla | Yazd | dnfBB | Monkey Boards | GroupServer |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Rating/Karma System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Users Online List |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Moderation | OvBB | Vanilla | Yazd | dnfBB | Monkey Boards | GroupServer |
| Moderators |
global
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global
|
global and forums
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Split Threads |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Shadow Topics |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search | OvBB | Vanilla | Yazd | dnfBB | Monkey Boards | GroupServer |
| Full-text search |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Session tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Session tracked
|
Database tracked
|
No
|
|
| Customization | OvBB | Vanilla | Yazd | dnfBB | Monkey Boards | GroupServer |
| 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
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
global
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
CSS only
|
global
|
|
| Custom BBCodes |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Skin-Editor |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Smiley Packs |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Special Features | OvBB | Vanilla | Yazd | dnfBB | Monkey Boards | GroupServer |
| Statistics |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Calendar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Friendly URLs |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Data Management | OvBB | Vanilla | Yazd | dnfBB | Monkey Boards | GroupServer |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
|||||
| Pruning |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Archiving |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Export Formats |
No
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
none
|
None (cannot be exported)
|
XML, mbox
|
|
| Export private messages |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Lo-Fi View |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| remove OvBB | remove Vanilla | remove Yazd | remove dnfBB | remove Monkey Boards | remove GroupServer |