Killer Features
Vanilla is the best forum software. Based on ease-of-use and design simplicity,
Vanilla provides an unparalleled experience for guests, members, moderators, and administrators.
Administration
User Management
Quickly find and manage members and their abilities in the administrative dashboard.
Roles & Permissions
Control fine-grained role-based permissions. Assign multiple roles to users.
Discussion Categories
Optionally use discussion categories to help users find their areas of interest. You decide how categories and discussions are presented to the users and who gets to see what.
Flood Control
Readymade flood control settings to prevent users from filling the community with garbage content. Users are automatically punished for negative contributions.
Spam Control
Spam control at every level from registration through posting with deep spam service integrations like StopForumSpam and Akismet.
Comment Editing Options
Let your users edit their own comments forever, for a few minutes, or not at all.