UltraBB vs. Jive Forums vs. YaBB vs. Yazd vs. Vanilla vs. XMB

General UltraBB Jive Forums YaBB Yazd Vanilla XMB
Version
1.15
5.0.5
2.5 AE
3.0 Stable-Beta
2.6.4
1.9.11
Release Date
April-11-2007
2006-08-29 (17 years ago)
2010-07-04 (13 years ago)
2006-01-05 (18 years ago)
2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
Febuary 28, 2009
Last Update here
2008-07-01 (15 years ago)
2006-12-06 (17 years ago)
2010-07-06 (13 years ago)
2006-11-07 (17 years ago)
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
2012-03-02 (12 years ago)
Author
Jim Hale
Jive Software
YaBB Development Team
Group Effort
Vanilla Forums Inc
The XMB Group
URL
Free and Open Source
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Lifetime
Per User
YPL (Modified GNU GPL)
Apache
GPL
General Public License
License cost
$99.00
$1,950 to $19,950
Free
Free
0
0.00
Main View
Both, can be configured
Thread-Type
Flat
Threaded or Flat
Flat
Threaded or Flat
Flat
Flat
Setup UltraBB Jive Forums YaBB Yazd Vanilla XMB
Installation method
manual
wizard
wizard
wizard
Upgrade method
manual
wizard with manual interactions
manual
wizard
Hosting available
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Technology UltraBB Jive Forums YaBB Yazd Vanilla XMB
Programming Language
PHP
Java, J2EE, JSP
Perl
Java
PHP
php
UTF-8 Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Data Storage
1
MySQL Database
5
DB2 Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database
0
6
DB2 Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database
1
MySQL Database
1
MySQL Database
Other Storage
Source Code Repo
Issue Tracker
Posts UltraBB Jive Forums YaBB Yazd Vanilla XMB
BBCode
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Emoticons
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Formatting Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Quoting
Nested
Nested
Nested
Single
Single
Nested
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Attachments
One file
Multiple files
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
Forums UltraBB Jive Forums YaBB Yazd Vanilla XMB
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Subforums
one level
unlimited
one level
one level
unlimited
one level
Last Post
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Redirect Forums
No
No
Patch
No
Yes
No
Trashcan Forum
No
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
No
Anti-Spam and Security UltraBB Jive Forums YaBB Yazd Vanilla XMB
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
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
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Warnings
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Suspension
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Bans
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
IP-Block
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Audit Logging
No
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Yes
User Reports
No
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Other
E-mail blocking
trademark "the Guardian" system
Community Curation & SPAM removal
Notification UltraBB Jive Forums YaBB Yazd Vanilla XMB
RSS/ATOM
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
E-Mail
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Instant Messaging
No
Private message notifications and broadcast messages
0
Bookmarks
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Community UltraBB Jive Forums YaBB Yazd Vanilla XMB
Avatars
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
User Ranks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Rating/Karma System
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Signatures
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Users Online List
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Private Messaging
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom profile fields
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Moderation UltraBB Jive Forums YaBB Yazd Vanilla XMB
Moderators
global and forums
global, forums and threads
global and forums
global and forums
global, forums and threads
global and forums
Move Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Split Threads
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Close Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Shadow Topics
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Sticky Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Important Threads
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Search UltraBB Jive Forums YaBB Yazd Vanilla XMB
Full-text search
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Author search
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Advanced search
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Unread Topics
No
Database tracked
Database tracked
Session tracked
Database tracked
Session tracked
Customization UltraBB Jive Forums YaBB Yazd Vanilla XMB
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
Mobile View
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Templates
global
global and forum specific
global
global and forum specific
global and forum specific
global and forum specific
Custom BBCodes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Skin-Editor
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Smiley Packs
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features UltraBB Jive Forums YaBB Yazd Vanilla XMB
Statistics
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Polls
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Calendar
Yes
No
Patch
No
Plugin
Plugin
Friendly URLs
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Data Management UltraBB Jive Forums YaBB Yazd Vanilla XMB
Available Importers
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
Pruning
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Archiving
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Export Formats
XML
print layout; storage folders
none
Proprietary or MySQLDump
Export private messages
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Lo-Fi View
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
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