| General | Phorum | NoNonsense Forum | OvBB | Yazd | Vanilla | JForum |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
5.2.9a
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18
|
0.16a
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3.0 Stable-Beta
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2.6.4
|
2.1.8
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| Release Date |
2008-10-13 (17 years ago)
|
2012-03-05 (14 years ago)
|
2007-04-06 (19 years ago)
|
2006-01-06 (20 years ago)
|
2018-10-29 (7 years ago)
|
2008-11-01 (17 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2008-10-16 (17 years ago)
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2012-03-05 (14 years ago)
|
2008-01-21 (18 years ago)
|
2006-11-07 (19 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (7 years ago)
|
2008-01-02 (18 years ago)
|
| Author |
Phorum Dev Team
|
Kroc Camen
|
Jonathon Freeman & Brian Otto
|
Group Effort
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
Rafael Steil
|
| URL | ||||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
The Phorum License (BSD)
|
CC-BY 3
|
MIT
|
Apache
|
GPL
|
BSD
|
| License cost |
0
|
0
|
0
|
Free
|
0
|
0
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
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| Thread-Type |
Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Setup | Phorum | NoNonsense Forum | OvBB | Yazd | Vanilla | JForum |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
|
| Upgrade method |
wizard
|
manual
|
wizard
|
manual
|
manual
|
|
| Hosting available |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Technology | Phorum | NoNonsense Forum | OvBB | Yazd | Vanilla | JForum |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
Java
|
PHP
|
Java
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database |
0
|
2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database |
6
DB2 Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
1
MySQL Database |
3
MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database |
| Other Storage |
HSQLDB
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| Source Code Repo | ||||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||||
| Posts | Phorum | NoNonsense Forum | OvBB | Yazd | Vanilla | JForum |
| BBCode |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| HTML |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Emoticons |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Nested
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Single
|
Single
|
Nested
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
No
|
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
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| Forums | Phorum | NoNonsense Forum | OvBB | Yazd | Vanilla | JForum |
| Categories |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
multiple levels
|
unlimited
|
No
|
one level
|
unlimited
|
No
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Trashcan Forum |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | Phorum | NoNonsense Forum | OvBB | Yazd | Vanilla | JForum |
| CAPTCHA |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
No
|
One group only
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Warnings |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Suspension |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| User Reports |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Other |
Aksimet Plugin
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
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| Notification | Phorum | NoNonsense Forum | OvBB | Yazd | Vanilla | JForum |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
0
|
No
|
0
|
0
|
||
| Bookmarks |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Community | Phorum | NoNonsense Forum | OvBB | Yazd | Vanilla | JForum |
| Avatars |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Users Online List |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Moderation | Phorum | NoNonsense Forum | OvBB | Yazd | Vanilla | JForum |
| Moderators |
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Search | Phorum | NoNonsense Forum | OvBB | Yazd | Vanilla | JForum |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
No
|
Session tracked
|
Session tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
| Customization | Phorum | NoNonsense Forum | OvBB | Yazd | Vanilla | JForum |
| 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
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| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
global and forum specific
|
global
|
global
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Skin-Editor |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Smiley Packs |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Phorum | NoNonsense Forum | OvBB | Yazd | Vanilla | JForum |
| Statistics |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Calendar |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Friendly URLs |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Management | Phorum | NoNonsense Forum | OvBB | Yazd | Vanilla | JForum |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
|||||
| Pruning |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Archiving |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Export Formats |
RSS
|
No
|
none
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
||
| Export private messages |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| remove Phorum | remove NoNonsense Forum | remove OvBB | remove Yazd | remove Vanilla | remove JForum |