| General | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla | Phorum | MyBB | XMB | Beehive Forum |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2015-07-13
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2.6.4
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5.2.9a
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1.6.3
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1.9.11
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1.4.7
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| Release Date |
2015-07-12 (8 years ago)
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2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
|
2008-10-12 (15 years ago)
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2011-04-16 (13 years ago)
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Febuary 28, 2009
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2015-06-03 (8 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
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2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
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2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
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2011-06-22 (12 years ago)
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2012-03-02 (12 years ago)
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2016-02-08 (8 years ago)
|
| Author |
Yves Goergen
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
Phorum Dev Team
|
MyBB Group
|
The XMB Group
|
Matt Beale, Mark Rendle
|
| URL | ||||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
GPL
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GPL
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The Phorum License (BSD)
|
Custom
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General Public License
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GPL
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| License cost |
0
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0
|
0
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US$0
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0.00
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0
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| Main View |
Classic forum list
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Both, can be configured
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| Thread-Type |
Flat
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Flat
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Threaded or Flat
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Threaded or Flat
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Flat
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Threaded or Flat
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| Setup | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla | Phorum | MyBB | XMB | Beehive Forum |
| Installation method |
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
| Upgrade method |
manual
|
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
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| Hosting available |
No
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Yes
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No
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No
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No
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Yes
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| Technology | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla | Phorum | MyBB | XMB | Beehive Forum |
| Programming Language |
PHP 5
|
PHP
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PHP
|
PHP
|
php
|
PHP
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| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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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 | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla | Phorum | MyBB | XMB | Beehive Forum |
| BBCode |
Yes
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Plugin
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Optional
|
Yes
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Yes
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No
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| HTML |
No
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Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| WYSIWYG Editor |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
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| Quoting |
Nested
|
Single
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Attachments |
One file
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
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Multiple files
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| Tags |
No
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Yes
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Unknown
|
Unknown
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Unknown
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Unknown
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| Mark as solved |
No
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A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
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| Forums | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla | Phorum | MyBB | XMB | Beehive Forum |
| Categories |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Subforums |
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
multiple levels
|
unlimited
|
one level
|
|
| Last Post |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Trashcan Forum |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla | Phorum | MyBB | XMB | Beehive Forum |
| CAPTCHA |
Optional
|
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
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Suspension |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| IP-Block |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Other |
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
Aksimet Plugin
|
Akismet plugin available.
|
Worming, Pilllorying
|
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| Notification | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla | Phorum | MyBB | XMB | Beehive Forum |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
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| Instant Messaging |
Jabber
|
0
|
Yes
|
|||
| Bookmarks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Community | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla | Phorum | MyBB | XMB | Beehive Forum |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Rating/Karma System |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Users Online List |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Private Messaging |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Moderation | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla | Phorum | MyBB | XMB | Beehive Forum |
| Moderators |
global, forums and threads
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Search | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla | Phorum | MyBB | XMB | Beehive Forum |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Session tracked
|
Database tracked
|
| Customization | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla | Phorum | MyBB | XMB | Beehive Forum |
| Languages |
13
Czech, German, English, French, Hungarian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Chinese |
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
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0
|
0
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0
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| Mobile View |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
global
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
CSS only
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Skin-Editor |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Smiley Packs |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Special Features | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla | Phorum | MyBB | XMB | Beehive Forum |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Data Management | Unclassified NewsBoard | Vanilla | Phorum | MyBB | XMB | Beehive Forum |
| Available Importers |
Invision Board 1.1.2, phpBB 2.0.x, Woltlab Burning Board 1.x
|
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
||||
| Pruning |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Archiving |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Export Formats |
none
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
||||
| Export private messages |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Lo-Fi View |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
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