| General | SMF | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | Phorum |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.0.6
|
2.6.4
|
2015-07-13
|
10.1, 9.4 LTS and 6.10 LTS
|
5.2.9a
|
| Release Date |
2013-10-21 (10 years ago)
|
2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
|
2015-07-12 (8 years ago)
|
2013-02-08 (11 years ago)
|
2008-10-12 (15 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2013-10-25 (10 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
|
2013-02-19 (11 years ago)
|
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
|
| Author |
Simple Machines
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
Yves Goergen
|
Tiki Software Community Association
|
Phorum Dev Team
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
BSD
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
LGPL
|
The Phorum License (BSD)
|
| License cost |
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
Classic forum list
|
|||
| Thread-Type |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
| Setup | SMF | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | Phorum |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
| Upgrade method |
wizard
|
manual
|
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
| Hosting available |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Technology | SMF | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | Phorum |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP 5
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
3
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database |
| Other Storage | |||||
| Source Code Repo | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Posts | SMF | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | Phorum |
| BBCode |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| HTML |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Nested
|
Single
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
One file
|
One file
|
Multiple files
|
| Tags |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
No
|
|||
| Forums | SMF | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | Phorum |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
one level
|
multiple levels
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Trashcan Forum |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | SMF | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | Phorum |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| 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
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| User Reports |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Other |
An Akismet mod is available
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
Aksimet Plugin
|
||
| Notification | SMF | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | Phorum |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
Jabber
|
0
|
|||
| Bookmarks |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Community | SMF | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | Phorum |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| User Ranks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Users Online List |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Moderation | SMF | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | Phorum |
| Moderators |
global, forums and threads
|
global, forums and threads
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Search | SMF | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | Phorum |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
|
| Customization | SMF | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | Phorum |
| 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 |
13
Czech, German, English, French, Hungarian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Chinese |
0
|
0
|
| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Skin-Editor |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Smiley Packs |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | SMF | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | Phorum |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Polls |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Calendar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Friendly URLs |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Data Management | SMF | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | Phorum |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
Invision Board 1.1.2, phpBB 2.0.x, Woltlab Burning Board 1.x
|
|||
| Pruning |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Export Formats |
WAP(2), IMode
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
none
|
||
| Export private messages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| remove SMF | remove Vanilla | remove Unclassified NewsBoard | remove TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | remove Phorum |