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Use Discourse. It's not only the most advanced from a tech perspective, but it also aims to promote strong communities.

• dchuk 8y ago
  No doubt that discourse is really nice software, and I will give it a go, but it does lack the “nostalgia” referred to by the original comment I replied to with this idea. All options are valid at this point though!
  • varrock 8y ago
    I am a huge fan of Simple Machine Forums - https://www.simplemachines.org/ https://www.simplemachines.org/
• eitland 8y ago
  Am I the only one who is totally confused by discourse? Maybe it's because rhe demo instance was reset way to often or something but I've never really seen a really working discourse instance. (I think both Mozilla and Canonical (has?) run one but they weren't to active either IIRC. Anyone has examples of a working discourse community?
  • ravloony 8y ago
    I think https://purescript-users.ml https://purescript-users.ml is running on Discourse. It's quite young though.
  • flaviocopes 8y ago
    - https://discourse.mozilla.org/latest https://discourse.mozilla.org/latest - https://platform.github.community/latest https://platform.github.community/latest - https://forum.golangbridge.org/ https://forum.golangbridge.org/
    • eitland 8y ago
      Thanks everyone. You've convinced me that discourse can work :-)
  • organsnyder 8y ago
    The subject matter may not appeal to some on HN, but here's an installation I set up at a previous employer over three years ago, that is thriving: https://discourse.biologos.org/ https://discourse.biologos.org/
    • eitland 8y ago
      Heh, I've recognized that feeling too but I feel HN is still one of the most reasonable foras I know of.