Vanilla vs. Phorum vs. MyBB vs. Viscacha

General Vanilla Phorum MyBB Viscacha
Version
2.6.4
5.2.9a
1.6.3
0.8.1
Release Date
2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
2008-10-12 (15 years ago)
2011-04-16 (12 years ago)
2010-12-03 (13 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
2011-06-22 (12 years ago)
2010-12-04 (13 years ago)
Author
Vanilla Forums Inc
Phorum Dev Team
MyBB Group
The Viscacha Project
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
The Phorum License (BSD)
Custom
GPL
License cost
0
0
US$0
0
Main View
Both, can be configured
Thread-Type
Flat
Threaded or Flat
Threaded or Flat
Flat
Setup Vanilla Phorum MyBB Viscacha
Installation method
wizard
wizard
wizard
wizard
Upgrade method
manual
wizard
wizard
wizard
Hosting available
Yes
No
No
No
Technology Vanilla Phorum MyBB Viscacha
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
UTF-8 Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Data Storage
1
MySQL Database
2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database
3
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database
1
MySQL Database
Other Storage
Source Code Repo
Issue Tracker
Posts Vanilla Phorum MyBB Viscacha
BBCode
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
HTML
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Emoticons
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Formatting Toolbar
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editor
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Quoting
Single
Nested
Nested
Nested
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Attachments
Multiple files
Multiple files
Multiple files
Multiple files
Tags
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Mark as solved
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
Forums Vanilla Phorum MyBB Viscacha
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Subforums
unlimited
multiple levels
unlimited
unlimited
Last Post
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Redirect Forums
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Trashcan Forum
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Anti-Spam and Security Vanilla Phorum MyBB Viscacha
CAPTCHA
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Groups
Multiple groups
Multiple groups
Multiple groups
Multiple groups
Flood Control
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Warnings
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Suspension
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Bans
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
IP-Block
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Audit Logging
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
User Reports
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Other
Community Curation & SPAM removal
Aksimet Plugin
Akismet plugin available.
E-Mail Protection
Notification Vanilla Phorum MyBB Viscacha
RSS/ATOM
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
E-Mail
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Instant Messaging
0
No
Bookmarks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Community Vanilla Phorum MyBB Viscacha
Avatars
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
User Ranks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Rating/Karma System
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Signatures
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Users Online List
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Private Messaging
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom profile fields
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Moderation Vanilla Phorum MyBB Viscacha
Moderators
global, forums and threads
global and forums
global and forums
global and forums
Move Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Split Threads
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Close Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Shadow Topics
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Sticky Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Important Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Search Vanilla Phorum MyBB Viscacha
Full-text search
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Author search
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Advanced search
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unread Topics
Database tracked
Database tracked
Database tracked
Session tracked
Customization Vanilla Phorum MyBB Viscacha
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
0
Mobile View
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Templates
global and forum specific
global and forum specific
global and forum specific
global
Custom BBCodes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Skin-Editor
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Smiley Packs
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Vanilla Phorum MyBB Viscacha
Statistics
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Polls
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Calendar
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Friendly URLs
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Data Management Vanilla Phorum MyBB Viscacha
Available Importers
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
Pruning
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Archiving
Yes
No
No
No
Export Formats
Proprietary or MySQLDump
HTML, SQL, PDF as Plugin
Export private messages
Yes
No
Yes
No
Lo-Fi View
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
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