| General | XMB | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | bttlxeForum |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.9.11
|
2.6.4
|
2015-07-13
|
2.0
|
| Release Date |
Febuary 28, 2009
|
2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
|
2015-07-12 (8 years ago)
|
2004-07-31 (19 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2012-03-02 (12 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
|
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
|
2008-01-21 (16 years ago)
|
| Author |
The XMB Group
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
Yves Goergen
|
Battleaxe Software
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
General Public License
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
Free
|
| License cost |
0.00
|
0
|
0
|
Free
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
Classic forum list
|
||
| Thread-Type |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
| Setup | XMB | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | bttlxeForum |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
manual
|
|
| Upgrade method |
wizard
|
manual
|
manual
|
|
| Hosting available |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Technology | XMB | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | bttlxeForum |
| Programming Language |
php
|
PHP
|
PHP 5
|
ASP
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
1
MySQL Database |
2
Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database |
| Other Storage |
MS Access
|
|||
| Source Code Repo | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Posts | XMB | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | bttlxeForum |
| BBCode |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Nested
|
Single
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Attachments |
Multiple files
|
Multiple files
|
One file
|
No
|
| Tags |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Mark as solved |
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
|
No
|
||
| Forums | XMB | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | bttlxeForum |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
one level
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
No
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Trashcan Forum |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | XMB | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | bttlxeForum |
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Groups |
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
Multiple groups
|
| Flood Control |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| ACLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Warnings |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Suspension |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Bans |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Patch
|
| IP-Block |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Patch
|
| Audit Logging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| User Reports |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Other |
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
|||
| Notification | XMB | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | bttlxeForum |
| RSS/ATOM |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
Jabber
|
None
|
||
| Bookmarks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Community | XMB | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | bttlxeForum |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Signatures |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Users Online List |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Private Messaging |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Custom profile fields |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Moderation | XMB | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | bttlxeForum |
| Moderators |
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
global, forums and threads
|
global and forums
|
| Move Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Split Threads |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Close Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Shadow Topics |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Sticky Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Important Threads |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Search | XMB | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | bttlxeForum |
| 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
|
|
| Customization | XMB | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | bttlxeForum |
| 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 |
13
Czech, German, English, French, Hungarian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Chinese |
0
|
| Mobile View |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Templates |
global and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
global
|
CSS only
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Skin-Editor |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Smiley Packs |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | XMB | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | bttlxeForum |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Data Management | XMB | Vanilla | Unclassified NewsBoard | bttlxeForum |
| 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
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Export Formats |
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
none
|
None
|
|
| Export private messages |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| remove XMB | remove Vanilla | remove Unclassified NewsBoard | remove bttlxeForum |