Viscacha vs. XMB vs. Vanilla vs. MyBB vs. JForum vs. phpBB

General Viscacha XMB Vanilla MyBB JForum phpBB
Version
0.8.1
1.9.11
2.6.4
1.6.3
2.1.8
3.0.8
Release Date
2010-12-03 (13 years ago)
Febuary 28, 2009
2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
2011-04-16 (12 years ago)
2008-10-31 (15 years ago)
2010-11-19 (13 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-12-04 (13 years ago)
2012-03-02 (12 years ago)
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
2011-06-22 (12 years ago)
2008-01-02 (16 years ago)
2011-06-22 (12 years ago)
Author
The Viscacha Project
The XMB Group
Vanilla Forums Inc
MyBB Group
Rafael Steil
The phpBB Group
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
General Public License
GPL
Custom
BSD
General Public License
License cost
0
0.00
0
US$0
0
0.00
Main View
Both, can be configured
Thread-Type
Flat
Flat
Flat
Threaded or Flat
Flat
Flat
Setup Viscacha XMB Vanilla MyBB JForum phpBB
Installation method
wizard
wizard
wizard
wizard
wizard
wizard
Upgrade method
wizard
wizard
manual
wizard
manual
wizard with manual interactions
Hosting available
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Technology Viscacha XMB Vanilla MyBB JForum phpBB
Programming Language
PHP
php
PHP
PHP
Java
PHP
UTF-8 Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Data Storage
1
MySQL Database
1
MySQL Database
1
MySQL Database
3
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database
3
MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database
6
Firebird Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database
Other Storage
HSQLDB
Source Code Repo
Issue Tracker
Posts Viscacha XMB Vanilla MyBB JForum phpBB
BBCode
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Emoticons
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Formatting Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editor
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Quoting
Nested
Nested
Single
Nested
Nested
Nested
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Attachments
Multiple files
Multiple files
Multiple files
Multiple files
Multiple files
Multiple files
Tags
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Mark as solved
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
Forums Viscacha XMB Vanilla MyBB JForum phpBB
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Subforums
unlimited
one level
unlimited
unlimited
No
unlimited
Last Post
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Redirect Forums
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Trashcan Forum
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Anti-Spam and Security Viscacha XMB Vanilla MyBB JForum phpBB
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Warnings
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Suspension
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Bans
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
IP-Block
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Audit Logging
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
User Reports
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Other
E-Mail Protection
Community Curation & SPAM removal
Akismet plugin available.
Plugin-based CAPTCHA system, Newly Registered Users permissions
Notification Viscacha XMB Vanilla MyBB JForum phpBB
RSS/ATOM
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
E-Mail
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Instant Messaging
No
0
Jabber
Bookmarks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Community Viscacha XMB Vanilla MyBB JForum phpBB
Avatars
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
User Ranks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Rating/Karma System
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Signatures
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Users Online List
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Private Messaging
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom profile fields
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Moderation Viscacha XMB Vanilla MyBB JForum phpBB
Moderators
global and forums
global and forums
global, forums and threads
global and forums
global and forums
global and forums
Move Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Split Threads
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Close Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Shadow Topics
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Sticky Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Important Threads
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Search Viscacha XMB Vanilla MyBB JForum phpBB
Full-text search
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Author search
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Advanced search
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unread Topics
Session tracked
Session tracked
Database tracked
Database tracked
Database tracked
Database tracked
Customization Viscacha XMB Vanilla MyBB JForum phpBB
Languages
0
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
0
Mobile View
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Templates
global
global and forum specific
global and forum specific
global and forum specific
global
global and forum specific
Custom BBCodes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Skin-Editor
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Smiley Packs
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Viscacha XMB Vanilla MyBB JForum phpBB
Statistics
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Polls
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Friendly URLs
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Data Management Viscacha XMB Vanilla MyBB JForum phpBB
Available Importers
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
Pruning
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Archiving
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Export Formats
HTML, SQL, PDF as Plugin
Proprietary or MySQLDump
SQL Dumps in .sql, sql.gz, and .sql.bz2
Export private messages
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Lo-Fi View
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
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