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Vanilla

Vanilla is a powerfully simple discussion forum you can easily customize to make as unique as your community.

Free Personal
Web
Self-Hosted

Vanilla provides a standards-compliant, multi-lingual, theme-able and pluggablecommunity forum software that powers discussion forums on 800,000 sites.

It's available in two editions: an opensource and self-hosted version and an optimized cloud hosted version with premium features.

Apps for Vanilla

Vanilla is also a platform with 1 apps listed on AlternativeTo. Browse all 1 apps for Vanilla.

Links to official Vanilla sites

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Pricing Information

One time purchase (perpetual license)

Features

Forums Plugins Add a feature

Category

Social & Communications

Tags

Vanilla was added by misterchibi in Sep 2009 and the latest update was made in Mar 2020. The list of alternatives was updated Jul 2020. It's possible to update the information on Vanilla or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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