- Comparison of Internet forum software (ASP)
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This is a comparison of the features of various Internet forum packages written in ASP, ASP.NET, and variations thereof.
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General information
Basic general information about the forums: creator/company, license/price, etc.
Name Creator Current stable version Programming language License Latest release date Active Forums Active Modules, Inc. 4.02.06 ASP.NET 2.0 Proprietary 2010-05-12 AspNetForum Jitbit Software 6.6.7 ASP.NET Proprietary 2010-07-05 ASPPlayground.NET ASPPlayground.NET 3.9 ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 & 4.0 Proprietary 2011-02-25 Atlas Countersoft 1.0 ASP.NET Proprietary 2011-04-26 Betamakers Community Application Betamakers Corporation 2.0.1 ASP Other 2010-07-10 bttlxeForum Battleaxe Software Ltd. 2.0 ASP Other 2004-06-12 Comm100 Forum Comm100 Network Corporation 2.0 ASP.NET 3.5 Ms-RL 2010-10-18 Com(p)fy Folders Compfy.com 0.7 ASP.NET 3.5 GPL 2010-05-14 Discussion Board Active Data Online 6.0 ASP.NET 3.5 Proprietary 2008-02-26 dnfBB Simon Carter 2.0 C# IDPL v1.0 2007-03-27 FuseTalk.NET FuseTalk Inc. 4.0 ASP.NET Proprietary 2010-05-01 GoBoardz Nathan Cope 1.0 ASP Proprietary 2006-08-13 Ideal BB Ideal Science 1.5.4b ASP Proprietary 2006-05-03 Ideal BB.NET Ideal Science 3.1.7 ASP.NET Proprietary 2007-10-07 InstantForum.net Forum InstantAsp 2010-3 ASP.NET Proprietary 2010-07-06 ITCN Enterprise Forum ITCN Software 3.1 ASP.NET 2.0 Proprietary 2008-04-28 iyzi Forum Canol Gökel v1.0 Beta 3.02 ASP GPL 2010-04-06 MegaBBS PD9 Software 2.2 ASP Other 2009-01-16 NearForums Jorge Bay 7.0 ASP.NET MVC MIT 2011-03-11 PunBB.NET PunBB team beta ASP.NET 2.0 GPL 2009-01-28 Snitz Forums 2000 Snitz Communications 3.4.07 ASP GPL 2009-03-16 Telligent Community Telligent Systems 5.0 ASP.NET 3.5 Proprietary 2009-06-23 Toast Forums Toastforums.com 1.8 ASP Proprietary 2009-04-03 Web Wiz Forum Bruce Corkhill 9.69 ASP Proprietary 2010-07-10 Yet Another Forum.NET (YAF) Jaben Cargman 1.9.5 ASP.NET 3.5 C# GPL 2010-10-06 Xperience Forums Chris Williams of CJWSoft 1.0 ASP Proprietary 2008-01-11 SooPPortal SooP Dev Team 2.0 RC1 ASP GPL ? ? Creator Current stable version Programming language License Latest release date Features
Name Flat Threaded Duplicate thread prevention User-selectable themes Calendar Image attachment Unread message tracking WYSIWYG Editor Active Directory integration Active Forums Yes No Yes Yes No Yes Full Yes Yes AspNetForum Yes No No Yes No Yes Full Yes Yes ASPPlayground.NET Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Session Yes Yes Atlas Yes Yes No No No Yes No Yes No bttlxeForum No Yes No No No No ? ? No Comm100 Forum Yes No No No No Yes Yes Yes No Com(p)fy Folders Yes No No No No Yes No Yes No Discussion Board Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Full ? No FuseTalk.NET Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Session Yes Yes GoBoardz Yes No No No No No ? ? No Ideal BB Yes No No No Yes Yes ? ? Yes InstantForum.net Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Session Yes Yes ITCN Enterprise Forum Yes No No Yes No Yes No Yes No iyzi Forum Yes No No No No Yes Yes No No MegaBBS Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Session Yes No NearForums Yes Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No PunBB.NET Yes No No No No No No ? No Snitz Forums 2000 Yes No No No No No Yes No No Telligent Community Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Toast Forums Yes Yes No Yes No No No Yes No Web Wiz Forum Yes No No Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yet Another Forum.NET (YAF) Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Session Yes No Xperience Forums Yes No No Yes No Yes ? Yes No SoopPortal Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Flat Threaded Duplicate thread prevention User-selectable themes Calendar Image attachment Unread message tracking WYSIWYG Editor Active Directory integration Data storage
Information about what data storage system can be used.
Name MySQL PostgreSQL MSSQL Oracle Access Firebird AspNetForum Yes No Yes No Yes No ASPPlayground.NET No No Yes No No No Atlas No No Yes No No No bttlxeForum Yes No Yes No Yes No Betamakers Community Application[1] Yes No Yes No Yes No Comm100 Forum No No Yes No No No Com(p)fy Folders No No Yes No No No Discussion Board Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No dnfBB Yes No Yes Yes No Yes FuseTalk.NET No No Yes No No No GoBoardz No No Yes No No No Ideal BB No No Yes No No No InstantForum.net No No Yes No No No ITCN Enterprise Forum No No Yes No ? No iyzi Forum Yes No No No Yes No MegaBBS Yes No Yes No Yes No NearForums Yes No Yes No No No PunBB.NET Yes No Yes No Yes No Snitz Forums 2000 Yes No Yes No Yes No Telligent Community No No Yes No No No Toast Forums No No Yes No Yes No Web Wiz Forum Yes No Yes No Yes No Yet Another Forum.NET (YAF) No No Yes No No No Xperience Forums No No Yes No Yes No SoopPortal Yes No Yes No Yes No MySQL PostgreSQL MSSQL Oracle Access Firebird See also
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