UBB.threads vs. Vanilla vs. bbPress vs. Phorum vs. FluxBB

General UBB.threads Vanilla bbPress Phorum FluxBB
Version
7.5.4.2
2.6.4
0.9.0.4
5.2.9a
1.4.5
Release Date
2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
2009-01-02 (15 years ago)
2008-10-12 (15 years ago)
22/03/2011
Last Update here
2010-02-04 (14 years ago)
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
2009-03-11 (15 years ago)
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
2011-05-05 (12 years ago)
Author
Mindraven
Vanilla Forums Inc
bbpress.org
Phorum Dev Team
FluxBB development team
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial
GPL
GPL2
The Phorum License (BSD)
GPL v2
License cost
$139
0
0
0
0
Main View
Both, can be configured
Thread-Type
Threaded or Flat
Flat
Flat
Threaded or Flat
Flat
Setup UBB.threads Vanilla bbPress Phorum FluxBB
Installation method
wizard
wizard
wizard
wizard
wizard
Upgrade method
wizard with manual interactions
manual
wizard
wizard
wizard
Hosting available
No
Yes
No
No
No
Technology UBB.threads Vanilla bbPress Phorum FluxBB
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
UTF-8 Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Data Storage
1
MySQL Database
1
MySQL Database
1
MySQL Database
2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database
3
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database
Other Storage
Source Code Repo
Issue Tracker
Posts UBB.threads Vanilla bbPress Phorum FluxBB
BBCode
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
HTML
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Patch
Emoticons
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Formatting Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Patch
WYSIWYG Editor
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Patch
Quoting
Nested
Single
Nested
Nested
Nested
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Attachments
Multiple files
Multiple files
Multiple files
Multiple files
No
Tags
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Mark as solved
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
Forums UBB.threads Vanilla bbPress Phorum FluxBB
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Subforums
unlimited
unlimited
unlimited
multiple levels
No
Last Post
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Redirect Forums
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Trashcan Forum
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Anti-Spam and Security UBB.threads Vanilla bbPress Phorum FluxBB
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Groups
Multiple groups
Multiple groups
One group only
Multiple groups
One group only
Flood Control
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACLs
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Warnings
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Suspension
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Bans
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
IP-Block
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Audit Logging
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Patch
User Reports
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Other
Community Curation & SPAM removal
Aksimet Plugin
Notification UBB.threads Vanilla bbPress Phorum FluxBB
RSS/ATOM
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
E-Mail
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Instant Messaging
0
Plugin
0
Bookmarks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Community UBB.threads Vanilla bbPress Phorum FluxBB
Avatars
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
User Ranks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Rating/Karma System
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Signatures
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Users Online List
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Private Messaging
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Custom profile fields
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Moderation UBB.threads Vanilla bbPress Phorum FluxBB
Moderators
global and forums
global, forums and threads
global
global and forums
global and forums
Move Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Split Threads
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Close Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Shadow Topics
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Sticky Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Important Threads
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Search UBB.threads Vanilla bbPress Phorum FluxBB
Full-text search
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Author search
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Advanced search
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unread Topics
Database tracked
Database tracked
Database tracked
Session tracked
Customization UBB.threads Vanilla bbPress Phorum FluxBB
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
Mobile View
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Templates
global and forum specific
global and forum specific
global
global and forum specific
CSS only
Custom BBCodes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Skin-Editor
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Smiley Packs
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features UBB.threads Vanilla bbPress Phorum FluxBB
Statistics
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Polls
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Patch
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Data Management UBB.threads Vanilla bbPress Phorum FluxBB
Available Importers
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
Pruning
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Archiving
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Patch
Export Formats
Proprietary or MySQLDump
BBXF
Export private messages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Lo-Fi View
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
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