Vanilla Forums is a versatile platform designed to facilitate the creation and management of online communities. It offers both an open-source version, Vanilla OSS, and a cloud-based solution, Vanilla Cloud, catering to diverse organizational needs. The open-source variant is a lightweight forum package written in PHP, utilizing the Garden framework, and is released under the GNU General Public License. This version allows developers and community managers to set up and maintain full-featured discussion forums with unlimited categories, supported by a variety of community-made themes and add-ons. Vanilla Cloud, the commercial SaaS offering, provides a hosted implementation of the software with additional premium add-ons and support options. This solution is designed to bring forums back to their roots, providing core functionality with the flexibility to extend features through plugins, such as emoticons. The platform emphasizes standards compliance and customization, enabling users to tailor their forums to specific community requirements.
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