| General | YaBB | SMF | Vanilla | MyBB | XMB | phpBB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.5 AE
|
2.0.6
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2.6.4
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1.6.3
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1.9.11
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3.0.8
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| Release Date |
2010-07-04 (13 years ago)
|
2013-10-21 (10 years ago)
|
2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
|
2011-04-16 (13 years ago)
|
Febuary 28, 2009
|
2010-11-19 (13 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2010-07-06 (13 years ago)
|
2013-10-25 (10 years ago)
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2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
|
2011-06-22 (12 years ago)
|
2012-03-02 (12 years ago)
|
2011-06-22 (12 years ago)
|
| Author |
YaBB Development Team
|
Simple Machines
|
Vanilla Forums Inc
|
MyBB Group
|
The XMB Group
|
The phpBB Group
|
| URL | ||||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
| License |
YPL (Modified GNU GPL)
|
BSD
|
GPL
|
Custom
|
General Public License
|
General Public License
|
| License cost |
Free
|
0
|
0
|
US$0
|
0.00
|
0.00
|
| Main View |
Both, can be configured
|
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| Thread-Type |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded or Flat
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Setup | YaBB | SMF | Vanilla | MyBB | XMB | phpBB |
| Installation method |
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
| Upgrade method |
wizard with manual interactions
|
wizard
|
manual
|
wizard
|
wizard
|
wizard with manual interactions
|
| Hosting available |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Technology | YaBB | SMF | Vanilla | MyBB | XMB | phpBB |
| Programming Language |
Perl
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
php
|
PHP
|
| UTF-8 Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Data Storage |
0
|
3
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
1
MySQL Database |
3
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
1
MySQL Database |
6
Firebird Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database |
| Other Storage | ||||||
| Source Code Repo | ||||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||||
| Posts | YaBB | SMF | Vanilla | MyBB | XMB | phpBB |
| BBCode |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Emoticons |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Formatting Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editor |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Nested
|
Nested
|
Single
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
Nested
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
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
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| Forums | YaBB | SMF | Vanilla | MyBB | XMB | phpBB |
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Subforums |
one level
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
unlimited
|
one level
|
unlimited
|
| Last Post |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Redirect Forums |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Trashcan Forum |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Anti-Spam and Security | YaBB | SMF | Vanilla | MyBB | XMB | phpBB |
| CAPTCHA |
Optional
|
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
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Warnings |
Optional
|
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 |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Reports |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Other |
trademark "the Guardian" system
|
An Akismet mod is available
|
Community Curation & SPAM removal
|
Akismet plugin available.
|
Plugin-based CAPTCHA system, Newly Registered Users permissions
|
|
| Notification | YaBB | SMF | Vanilla | MyBB | XMB | phpBB |
| RSS/ATOM |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
| Instant Messaging |
Private message notifications and broadcast messages
|
Jabber
|
||||
| Bookmarks |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Community | YaBB | SMF | Vanilla | MyBB | XMB | phpBB |
| Avatars |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| User Ranks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Rating/Karma System |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
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
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Moderation | YaBB | SMF | Vanilla | MyBB | XMB | phpBB |
| Moderators |
global and forums
|
global, forums and threads
|
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 |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Search | YaBB | SMF | Vanilla | MyBB | XMB | phpBB |
| Full-text search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Author search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Advanced search |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Unread Topics |
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Database tracked
|
Session tracked
|
Database tracked
|
| Customization | YaBB | SMF | Vanilla | MyBB | XMB | 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 and forum specific
|
global and forum specific
|
| Custom BBCodes |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Skin-Editor |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Smiley Packs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Plugins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | YaBB | SMF | Vanilla | MyBB | XMB | phpBB |
| Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Polls |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Calendar |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Friendly URLs |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Data Management | YaBB | SMF | Vanilla | MyBB | XMB | phpBB |
| Available Importers |
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
|
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| Pruning |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Archiving |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Export Formats |
print layout; storage folders
|
WAP(2), IMode
|
Proprietary or MySQLDump
|
SQL Dumps in .sql, sql.gz, and .sql.bz2
|
||
| Export private messages |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Lo-Fi View |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
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