| General | Phorum | XMB | Vanilla | YaBB | phpBB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
5.2.9a
|
1.9.11
|
2.6.4
|
2.5 AE
|
3.0.8
|
| Release Date |
2008-10-12 (15 years ago)
|
Febuary 28, 2009
|
2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
|
2010-07-04 (13 years ago)
|
2010-11-19 (13 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
|
2012-03-02 (12 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
|
2010-07-06 (13 years ago)
|
2011-06-22 (12 years ago)
|
| Author |
Phorum Dev Team
|
The XMB Group
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
YaBB Development Team
|
The phpBB Group
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
The Phorum License (BSD)
|
General Public License
|
GPL
|
YPL (Modified GNU GPL)
|
General Public License
|
| License cost |
0
|
0.00
|
0
|
Free
|
0.00
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
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| Thread-Type |
Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Setup | Phorum | XMB | Vanilla | YaBB | phpBB |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
| Upgrade method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
manual
|
wizard with manual interactions
|
wizard with manual interactions
|
| Hosting available |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Technology | Phorum | XMB | Vanilla | YaBB | phpBB |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
php
|
PHP
|
Perl
|
PHP
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
0
|
6
Firebird Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
| Other Storage | |||||
| Source Code Repo | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Posts | Phorum | XMB | Vanilla | YaBB | phpBB |
| BBCode |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Emoticons |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Nested
|
Nested
|
Single
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
| Tags |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
||||
| Forums | Phorum | XMB | Vanilla | YaBB | phpBB |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
multiple levels
|
one level
|
unlimited
|
one level
|
unlimited
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Trashcan Forum |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | Phorum | XMB | Vanilla | YaBB | phpBB |
| CAPTCHA |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Suspension |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Other |
Aksimet Plugin
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
trademark "the Guardian" system
|
Plugin-based CAPTCHA system, Newly Registered Users permissions
|
|
| Notification | Phorum | XMB | Vanilla | YaBB | phpBB |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
0
|
Private message notifications and broadcast messages
|
Jabber
|
||
| Bookmarks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Community | Phorum | XMB | Vanilla | YaBB | phpBB |
| Avatars |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Patch
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Users Online List |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Moderation | Phorum | XMB | Vanilla | YaBB | phpBB |
| Moderators |
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Search | Phorum | XMB | Vanilla | YaBB | phpBB |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Session tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
| Customization | Phorum | XMB | Vanilla | YaBB | phpBB |
| 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
|
| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global
|
global and forum specific
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Skin-Editor |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Smiley Packs |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Phorum | XMB | Vanilla | YaBB | phpBB |
| Statistics |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Friendly URLs |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Data Management | Phorum | XMB | Vanilla | YaBB | phpBB |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
||||
| Pruning |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Export Formats |
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
print layout; storage folders
|
SQL Dumps in .sql, sql.gz, and .sql.bz2
|
||
| Export private messages |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
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