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General YetAnotherForum.NET Yazd MyBB Vanilla Beehive Forum JForum
Version
v1.9.3
3.0 Stable-Beta
1.6.3
2.6.4
1.4.7
2.1.8
Release Date
2009-04-21 (14 years ago)
2006-01-05 (18 years ago)
2011-04-16 (12 years ago)
2018-10-28 (5 years ago)
2015-06-03 (8 years ago)
2008-10-31 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-08-02 (14 years ago)
2006-11-07 (17 years ago)
2011-06-22 (12 years ago)
2018-11-01 (5 years ago)
2016-02-08 (8 years ago)
2008-01-02 (16 years ago)
Author
Tiny Gecko
Group Effort
MyBB Group
Vanilla Forums Inc
Matt Beale, Mark Rendle
Rafael Steil
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL v2.0
Apache
Custom
GPL
GPL
BSD
License cost
Free
Free
US$0
0
0
0
Main View
Both, can be configured
Thread-Type
Threaded or Flat
Threaded or Flat
Threaded or Flat
Flat
Threaded or Flat
Flat
Setup YetAnotherForum.NET Yazd MyBB Vanilla Beehive Forum JForum
Installation method
wizard
wizard
wizard
wizard
wizard
Upgrade method
wizard with manual interactions
wizard
manual
wizard
manual
Hosting available
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Technology YetAnotherForum.NET Yazd MyBB Vanilla Beehive Forum JForum
Programming Language
ASP.NET, C#
Java
PHP
PHP
PHP
Java
UTF-8 Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Data Storage
1
Microsoft SQL Database
6
DB2 Database, Microsoft SQL Database, MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database
3
MySQL Database, PostgreSQL Database, SQLite File Database
1
MySQL Database
1
MySQL Database
3
MySQL Database, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL Database
Other Storage
HSQLDB
Source Code Repo
Issue Tracker
Posts YetAnotherForum.NET Yazd MyBB Vanilla Beehive Forum JForum
BBCode
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
HTML
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Emoticons
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Formatting Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
Nested
Single
Nested
Single
Nested
Nested
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
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 Yazd MyBB Vanilla Beehive Forum JForum
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Subforums
unlimited
one level
unlimited
unlimited
No
Last Post
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Redirect Forums
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Trashcan Forum
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Anti-Spam and Security YetAnotherForum.NET Yazd MyBB Vanilla Beehive Forum JForum
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
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
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Warnings
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Suspension
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Bans
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
IP-Block
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Audit Logging
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
User Reports
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Other
Akismet plugin available.
Community Curation & SPAM removal
Worming, Pilllorying
Notification YetAnotherForum.NET Yazd MyBB Vanilla Beehive Forum JForum
RSS/ATOM
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
E-Mail
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Instant Messaging
0
Yes
0
Bookmarks
Patch
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Community YetAnotherForum.NET Yazd MyBB Vanilla Beehive Forum JForum
Avatars
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
User Ranks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Rating/Karma System
No
Yes
Yes
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
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Moderation YetAnotherForum.NET Yazd MyBB Vanilla Beehive Forum JForum
Moderators
global and forums
global and forums
global and forums
global, forums and threads
global, forums and threads
global and forums
Move Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Split Threads
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Close Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Shadow Topics
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Sticky Threads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Important Threads
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Search YetAnotherForum.NET Yazd MyBB Vanilla Beehive Forum JForum
Full-text search
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Author search
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Advanced search
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unread Topics
Session tracked
Session tracked
Database tracked
Database tracked
Database tracked
Database tracked
Customization YetAnotherForum.NET Yazd MyBB Vanilla Beehive Forum JForum
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 and forum specific
global and forum specific
CSS only
global
Custom BBCodes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Skin-Editor
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Smiley Packs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features YetAnotherForum.NET Yazd MyBB Vanilla Beehive Forum JForum
Statistics
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Polls
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Calendar
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Data Management YetAnotherForum.NET Yazd MyBB Vanilla Beehive Forum JForum
Available Importers
All platforms use: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/porter-core
Pruning
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Archiving
No
No
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Export Formats
none
Proprietary or MySQLDump
Export private messages
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Lo-Fi View
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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