Vanilla Forums

Article summary

Vanilla Forums, also known as Higher Logic Vanilla, is an online community software platform. In May 2021, it was acquired by Higher Logic, a customer engagement company based in Arlington, Virginia. Its open source product, Vanilla OSS, is a lightweight Internet forum package written in the PHP scripting language using the Garden framework. The software is released under the GNU GPL. Vanilla Forums is free software, standards-compliant, customizable discussion forums. Since 2009 there is also a cloud-hosted version (offered by Vanilla). Vanilla's open source project was released on 1 July 2006, and has since undergone many changes, the most notable being the complete rewrite between Vanilla OSS and Vanilla Cloud, the latter of the two became the primary product and Vanilla 1 was passed into the hands of other developers. Vanilla 2, open source is still maintained and supported by the core team. Vanilla is designed to bring forums back to their roots, providing core functionality with additional features such as emoticons available as plugins.

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1. release date: 2006-07-01 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
2. release date: 2018-09-23 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

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1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
2. The record states that the release date is "2006-07-01". What evidence would count against this claim?
3. The record states that the release date is "2018-09-23". What evidence would count against this claim?
4. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
5. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

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