| General | Unclassified NewsBoard | XMB | Vanilla | JForum | GroupServer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2015-07-13
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1.9.11
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2.6.4
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2.1.8
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1.0β
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| Release Date |
2015-07-12 (8 years ago)
|
Febuary 28, 2009
|
2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
|
2008-10-31 (15 years ago)
|
2010 June 16
|
| Last Update here |
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
|
2012-03-02 (12 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
|
2008-01-02 (16 years ago)
|
2010-06-21 (13 years ago)
|
| Author |
Yves Goergen
|
The XMB Group
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
Rafael Steil
|
OnlineGroups.Net
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
General Public License
|
GPL
|
BSD
|
GPL
|
| License cost |
0
|
0.00
|
0
|
0
|
$0
|
| Main View |
Classic forum list
|
Both, can be configured
|
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| Thread-Type |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Setup | Unclassified NewsBoard | XMB | Vanilla | JForum | GroupServer |
| Installation method |
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
manual
|
| Upgrade method |
manual
|
wizard
|
manual
|
manual
|
manual
|
| Hosting available |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Technology | Unclassified NewsBoard | XMB | Vanilla | JForum | GroupServer |
| Programming Language |
PHP 5
|
php
|
PHP
|
Java
|
Python & Zope
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
3
MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database |
1
PostgreSQL Database |
| Other Storage |
HSQLDB
|
Zope Object Database
|
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| Source Code Repo | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Posts | Unclassified NewsBoard | XMB | Vanilla | JForum | GroupServer |
| BBCode |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| HTML |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Nested
|
Nested
|
Single
|
Nested
|
None
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Attachments |
One file
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
| Tags |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Mark as solved |
No
|
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
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| Forums | Unclassified NewsBoard | XMB | Vanilla | JForum | GroupServer |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
unlimited
|
one level
|
unlimited
|
No
|
No
|
| Last Post |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Trashcan Forum |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | Unclassified NewsBoard | XMB | Vanilla | JForum | GroupServer |
| CAPTCHA |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| 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 |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Suspension |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Audit Logging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Other |
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
Spam Assasin is used for email spam control.
|
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| Notification | Unclassified NewsBoard | XMB | Vanilla | JForum | GroupServer |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
Jabber
|
0
|
Integrated Chat
|
||
| Bookmarks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Community | Unclassified NewsBoard | XMB | Vanilla | JForum | GroupServer |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Rating/Karma System |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Users Online List |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Private Messaging |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Moderation | Unclassified NewsBoard | XMB | Vanilla | JForum | GroupServer |
| Moderators |
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Split Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Shadow Topics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Search | Unclassified NewsBoard | XMB | Vanilla | JForum | GroupServer |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Session tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
|
| Customization | Unclassified NewsBoard | XMB | Vanilla | JForum | GroupServer |
| Languages |
13
Czech, German, English, French, Hungarian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Chinese |
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
|
| Mobile View |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
global
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global
|
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Skin-Editor |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Smiley Packs |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Special Features | Unclassified NewsBoard | XMB | Vanilla | JForum | GroupServer |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Data Management | Unclassified NewsBoard | XMB | Vanilla | JForum | GroupServer |
| 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
|
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| Pruning |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Archiving |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Export Formats |
none
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
XML, mbox
|
||
| Export private messages |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Lo-Fi View |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
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