| General | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | XMB | Phorum | MyBB | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
10.1, 9.4 LTS and 6.10 LTS
|
1.9.11
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5.2.9a
|
1.6.3
|
2.6.4
|
2015-07-13
|
| Release Date |
2013-02-08 (11 years ago)
|
Febuary 28, 2009
|
2008-10-12 (15 years ago)
|
2011-04-16 (13 years ago)
|
2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
|
2015-07-12 (8 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2013-02-19 (11 years ago)
|
2012-03-02 (12 years ago)
|
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
|
2011-06-22 (12 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
|
| Author |
Tiki Software Community Association
|
The XMB Group
|
Phorum Dev Team
|
MyBB Group
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
Yves Goergen
|
| URL | ||||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
LGPL
|
General Public License
|
The Phorum License (BSD)
|
Custom
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
| License cost |
0
|
0.00
|
0
|
US$0
|
0
|
0
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
Classic forum list
|
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| Thread-Type |
Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Setup | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | XMB | Phorum | MyBB | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
manual
|
| Upgrade method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
manual
|
manual
|
| Hosting available |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Technology | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | XMB | Phorum | MyBB | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
php
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP 5
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database |
3
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
| Other Storage | ||||||
| Source Code Repo | ||||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||||
| Posts | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | XMB | Phorum | MyBB | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| BBCode |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| HTML |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Nested
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Single
|
Nested
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Attachments |
One file
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
One file
|
| Tags |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
No
|
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| Forums | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | XMB | Phorum | MyBB | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
one level
|
one level
|
multiple levels
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Redirect Forums |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Trashcan Forum |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | XMB | Phorum | MyBB | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Warnings |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Audit Logging |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Other |
Aksimet Plugin
|
Akismet plugin available.
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
|||
| Notification | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | XMB | Phorum | MyBB | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
0
|
Jabber
|
||||
| Bookmarks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Community | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | XMB | Phorum | MyBB | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Signatures |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Users Online List |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Custom profile fields |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Moderation | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | XMB | Phorum | MyBB | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Moderators |
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
global, forums and threads
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Close Threads |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Search | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | XMB | Phorum | MyBB | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Session tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
|
| Customization | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | XMB | Phorum | MyBB | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| 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 |
13
Czech, German, English, French, Hungarian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Chinese |
| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Templates |
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global
|
| Custom BBCodes |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Skin-Editor |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Smiley Packs |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | XMB | Phorum | MyBB | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Calendar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Management | TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | XMB | Phorum | MyBB | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| 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
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Archiving |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Export Formats |
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
none
|
||||
| Export private messages |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| remove TikiWiki CMS-Groupware | remove XMB | remove Phorum | remove MyBB | remove Vanilla | remove Unclassified NewsBoard |