XMB vs. Vanilla vs. Phorum vs. Viscacha

General XMB Vanilla Phorum Viscacha
Version
1.9.11
2.6.4
5.2.9a
0.8.1
Release Date
Febuary 28, 2009
2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
2008-10-12 (15 years ago)
2010-12-03 (13 years ago)
Last Update here
2012-03-02 (12 years ago)
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
2010-12-04 (13 years ago)
Author
The XMB Group
Vanilla Forums Inc
Phorum Dev Team
The Viscacha Project
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
General Public License
GPL
The Phorum License (BSD)
GPL
License cost
0.00
0
0
0
Main View
Both, can be configured
Thread-Type
Flat
Flat
Threaded or Flat
Flat
Setup XMB Vanilla Phorum Viscacha
Installation method
wizard
wizard
wizard
wizard
Upgrade method
wizard
manual
wizard
wizard
Hosting available
No
Yes
No
No
Technology XMB Vanilla Phorum Viscacha
Programming Language
php
PHP
PHP
PHP
UTF-8 Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Data Storage
1
MySQL Database
1
MySQL Database
2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database
1
MySQL Database
Other Storage
Source Code Repo
Issue Tracker
Posts XMB Vanilla Phorum Viscacha
BBCode
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
HTML
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Emoticons
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Formatting Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editor
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Quoting
Nested
Single
Nested
Nested
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Attachments
Multiple files
Multiple files
Multiple files
Multiple files
Tags
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Mark as solved
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
Forums XMB Vanilla Phorum Viscacha
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Subforums
one level
unlimited
multiple levels
unlimited
Last Post
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Redirect Forums
No
Yes
No
Yes
Trashcan Forum
No
Yes
No
No
Anti-Spam and Security XMB Vanilla Phorum Viscacha
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
Plugin
No
Suspension
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Bans
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
IP-Block
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Audit Logging
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
User Reports
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Other
Community Curation & SPAM removal
Aksimet Plugin
E-Mail Protection
Notification XMB Vanilla Phorum Viscacha
RSS/ATOM
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
E-Mail
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Instant Messaging
0
No
Bookmarks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Community XMB Vanilla Phorum Viscacha
Avatars
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
User Ranks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Rating/Karma System
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Signatures
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Users Online List
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Private Messaging
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom profile fields
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Moderation XMB Vanilla Phorum Viscacha
Moderators
global and forums
global, forums and threads
global and forums
global and forums
Move Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Split Threads
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Close Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Shadow Topics
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Sticky Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Important Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Search XMB Vanilla Phorum Viscacha
Full-text search
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Author search
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Advanced search
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unread Topics
Session tracked
Database tracked
Database tracked
Session tracked
Customization XMB Vanilla Phorum Viscacha
Languages
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
Mobile View
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Templates
global and forum specific
global and forum specific
global and forum specific
global
Custom BBCodes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Skin-Editor
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Smiley Packs
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features XMB Vanilla Phorum Viscacha
Statistics
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Polls
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Data Management XMB Vanilla Phorum Viscacha
Available Importers
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
Pruning
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Archiving
No
Yes
No
No
Export Formats
Proprietary or MySQLDump
HTML, SQL, PDF as Plugin
Export private messages
No
Yes
No
No
Lo-Fi View
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
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