| General | XenForo | MyBB | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Phorum | vBulletin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.5.2
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1.6.3
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2.6.4
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3.2.3
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5.2.9a
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4.1.5
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| Release Date |
2015-10-19 (8 years ago)
|
2011-04-16 (13 years ago)
|
2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
|
2011-10-17 (12 years ago)
|
2008-10-12 (15 years ago)
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2011-07-26 (12 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2015-11-15 (8 years ago)
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2011-06-22 (12 years ago)
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2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
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2012-02-07 (12 years ago)
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2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
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2011-08-25 (12 years ago)
|
| Author |
XenForo Ltd
|
MyBB Group
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Vanilla Forums Inc
|
Invision Power Services
|
Phorum Dev Team
|
vBulletin Solutions
|
| URL | ||||||
| Free and Open Source |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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| License |
commercial / visible source
|
Custom
|
GPL
|
Commercial
|
The Phorum License (BSD)
|
commercial / visible source
|
| License cost |
$140
|
US$0
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0
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License from $175 / Hosted from $5 per month
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0
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$285 Suite or $195 Forum
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
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| Thread-Type |
Flat
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Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
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Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
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| Setup | XenForo | MyBB | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Phorum | vBulletin |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
| Upgrade method |
wizard
|
wizard
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manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard with manual interactions
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| Hosting available |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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No
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No
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| Technology | XenForo | MyBB | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Phorum | vBulletin |
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP 5.2+
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
1
MySQL Database |
3
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
| Other Storage | ||||||
| Source Code Repo | ||||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||||
| Posts | XenForo | MyBB | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Phorum | vBulletin |
| BBCode |
Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
|
Yes
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Optional
|
Yes
|
| HTML |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Single
|
Nested
|
Single
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
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
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| Forums | XenForo | MyBB | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Phorum | vBulletin |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
multiple levels
|
unlimited
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Trashcan Forum |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | XenForo | MyBB | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Phorum | vBulletin |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
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
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Suspension |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Audit Logging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Other |
Advanced Spam Manager "Spam Cleaner", Questions and Answer System
|
Akismet plugin available.
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
Spam Monitoring Service, Flag As Spammer, Question & Answer System
|
Aksimet Plugin
|
Akismet
|
| Notification | XenForo | MyBB | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Phorum | vBulletin |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
No
|
No
|
0
|
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| Bookmarks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Community | XenForo | MyBB | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Phorum | vBulletin |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Users Online List |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Moderation | XenForo | MyBB | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Phorum | vBulletin |
| 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 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
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 |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Search | XenForo | MyBB | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Phorum | vBulletin |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
| Customization | XenForo | MyBB | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Phorum | vBulletin |
| 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
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0
|
0
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| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Skin-Editor |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Smiley Packs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | XenForo | MyBB | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Phorum | vBulletin |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Calendar |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Data Management | XenForo | MyBB | Vanilla | Invision Power Board | Phorum | vBulletin |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
|||||
| Pruning |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Export Formats |
NA
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
SQL
|
Single Table CSV, Single and Multi-Table SQL
|
||
| Export private messages |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Lo-Fi View |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| remove XenForo | remove MyBB | remove Vanilla | remove Invision Power Board | remove Phorum | remove vBulletin |