| General | Vanilla | SMF | Unclassified NewsBoard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.6.4
|
2.0.6
|
2015-07-13
|
| Release Date |
2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
|
2013-10-21 (10 years ago)
|
2015-07-12 (8 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
|
2013-10-25 (10 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
|
| Author |
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
Simple Machines
|
Yves Goergen
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
BSD
|
GPL
|
| License cost |
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
Classic forum list
|
|
| Thread-Type |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Setup | Vanilla | SMF | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
manual
|
| Upgrade method |
manual
|
wizard
|
manual
|
| Hosting available |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Technology | Vanilla | SMF | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP 5
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
1
MySQL Database |
3
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
1
MySQL Database |
| Other Storage | |||
| Source Code Repo | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Posts | Vanilla | SMF | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| BBCode |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Emoticons |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Single
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
One file
|
| Tags |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
No
|
|
| Forums | Vanilla | SMF | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Redirect Forums |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Trashcan Forum |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | Vanilla | SMF | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Warnings |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Audit Logging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Other |
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
An Akismet mod is available
|
|
| Notification | Vanilla | SMF | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
Jabber
|
||
| Bookmarks |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Community | Vanilla | SMF | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Signatures |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Users Online List |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Custom profile fields |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Moderation | Vanilla | SMF | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Moderators |
global, forums and threads
|
global, forums and threads
|
global, forums and threads
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Split Threads |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Search | Vanilla | SMF | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
| Customization | Vanilla | SMF | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| 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
|
13
Czech, German, English, French, Hungarian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Chinese |
| Mobile View |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Templates |
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Skin-Editor |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Smiley Packs |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Vanilla | SMF | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Data Management | Vanilla | SMF | Unclassified NewsBoard |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
Invision Board 1.1.2, phpBB 2.0.x, Woltlab Burning Board 1.x
|
|
| Pruning |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Archiving |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Export Formats |
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
WAP(2), IMode
|
none
|
| Export private messages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
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