| General | Vanilla | JForum | GroupServer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.6.4
|
2.1.8
|
1.0β
|
| Release Date |
2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
|
2008-10-31 (15 years ago)
|
2010 June 16
|
| Last Update here |
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
|
2008-01-02 (16 years ago)
|
2010-06-21 (13 years ago)
|
| Author |
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
Rafael Steil
|
OnlineGroups.Net
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
BSD
|
GPL
|
| License cost |
0
|
0
|
$0
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
||
| Thread-Type |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Setup | Vanilla | JForum | GroupServer |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
manual
|
| Upgrade method |
manual
|
manual
|
manual
|
| Hosting available |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Technology | Vanilla | JForum | GroupServer |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
Java
|
Python & Zope
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
1
MySQL Database |
3
MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database |
1
PostgreSQL Database |
| Other Storage |
HSQLDB
|
Zope Object Database
|
|
| Source Code Repo | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Posts | Vanilla | JForum | GroupServer |
| BBCode |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| HTML |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Emoticons |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Single
|
Nested
|
None
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
| Tags |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
||
| Forums | Vanilla | JForum | GroupServer |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
unlimited
|
No
|
No
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Trashcan Forum |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | Vanilla | JForum | GroupServer |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Audit Logging |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Other |
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
Spam Assasin is used for email spam control.
|
|
| Notification | Vanilla | JForum | GroupServer |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
0
|
Integrated Chat
|
|
| Bookmarks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Community | Vanilla | JForum | GroupServer |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Signatures |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Users Online List |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Moderation | Vanilla | JForum | GroupServer |
| Moderators |
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
global and forums
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Split Threads |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Shadow Topics |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Search | Vanilla | JForum | GroupServer |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
|
| Customization | Vanilla | JForum | GroupServer |
| Languages |
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 |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
global and forum specific
|
global
|
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Skin-Editor |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Smiley Packs |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Special Features | Vanilla | JForum | GroupServer |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Data Management | Vanilla | JForum | GroupServer |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
||
| Pruning |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Archiving |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Export Formats |
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
XML, mbox
|
|
| Export private messages |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
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