YetAnotherForum.NET vs. XMB vs. OvBB vs. Vanilla vs. Beehive Forum vs. SMF

General YetAnotherForum.NET XMB OvBB Vanilla Beehive Forum SMF
Version
v1.9.3
1.9.11
0.16a
2.6.4
1.4.7
2.0.6
Release Date
2009-04-21 (14 years ago)
Febuary 28, 2009
2007-04-05 (16 years ago)
2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
2015-06-03 (8 years ago)
2013-10-21 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-08-02 (14 years ago)
2012-03-02 (12 years ago)
2008-01-21 (16 years ago)
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
2016-02-08 (8 years ago)
2013-10-25 (10 years ago)
Author
Tiny Gecko
The XMB Group
Jonathon Freeman & Brian Otto
Vanilla Forums Inc
Matt Beale, Mark Rendle
Simple Machines
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL v2.0
General Public License
MIT
GPL
GPL
BSD
License cost
Free
0.00
0
0
0
0
Main View
Both, can be configured
Thread-Type
Threaded or Flat
Flat
Flat
Flat
Threaded or Flat
Flat
Setup YetAnotherForum.NET XMB OvBB Vanilla Beehive Forum SMF
Installation method
wizard
wizard
wizard
wizard
wizard
wizard
Upgrade method
wizard with manual interactions
wizard
wizard
manual
wizard
wizard
Hosting available
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Technology YetAnotherForum.NET XMB OvBB Vanilla Beehive Forum SMF
Programming Language
ASP.NET, C#
php
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
UTF-8 Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Data Storage
1
Microsoft SQL Database
1
MySQL Database
2
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database
1
MySQL Database
1
MySQL Database
3
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database
Other Storage
Source Code Repo
Issue Tracker
Posts YetAnotherForum.NET XMB OvBB Vanilla Beehive Forum SMF
BBCode
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
HTML
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Emoticons
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Formatting Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editor
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Nested
Nested
Nested
Single
Nested
Nested
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Attachments
Multiple files
Multiple files
Multiple files
Multiple files
Multiple files
Multiple files
Tags
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Mark as solved
A particular post can highlighted as accepted answer
Forums YetAnotherForum.NET XMB OvBB Vanilla Beehive Forum SMF
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Subforums
unlimited
one level
No
unlimited
unlimited
Last Post
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Redirect Forums
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Trashcan Forum
Optional
No
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Anti-Spam and Security YetAnotherForum.NET XMB OvBB Vanilla Beehive Forum SMF
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Groups
Multiple groups
Multiple groups
One group only
Multiple groups
Multiple groups
Multiple groups
Flood Control
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACLs
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Warnings
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Suspension
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Bans
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
IP-Block
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Audit Logging
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
User Reports
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Other
Community Curation & SPAM removal
Worming, Pilllorying
An Akismet mod is available
Notification YetAnotherForum.NET XMB OvBB Vanilla Beehive Forum SMF
RSS/ATOM
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
E-Mail
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Instant Messaging
No
Yes
Bookmarks
Patch
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Community YetAnotherForum.NET XMB OvBB Vanilla Beehive Forum SMF
Avatars
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
User Ranks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Rating/Karma System
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Signatures
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Users Online List
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Private Messaging
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom profile fields
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Moderation YetAnotherForum.NET XMB OvBB Vanilla Beehive Forum SMF
Moderators
global and forums
global and forums
global
global, forums and threads
global, forums and threads
global, forums and threads
Move Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Split Threads
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Close Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Shadow Topics
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Sticky Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Important Threads
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Search YetAnotherForum.NET XMB OvBB Vanilla Beehive Forum SMF
Full-text search
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Author search
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Advanced search
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unread Topics
Session tracked
Session tracked
Session tracked
Database tracked
Database tracked
Database tracked
Customization YetAnotherForum.NET XMB OvBB Vanilla Beehive Forum SMF
Languages
0
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
Mobile View
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Templates
global and forum specific
global and forum specific
global
global and forum specific
CSS only
global and forum specific
Custom BBCodes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Skin-Editor
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Smiley Packs
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features YetAnotherForum.NET XMB OvBB Vanilla Beehive Forum SMF
Statistics
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Polls
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Calendar
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Data Management YetAnotherForum.NET XMB OvBB Vanilla Beehive Forum SMF
Available Importers
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
Pruning
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Archiving
No
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Export Formats
No
Proprietary or MySQLDump
WAP(2), IMode
Export private messages
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Lo-Fi View
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
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