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Any recommendations for forum software, preferably open source? I'm aware of Discourse and Flarum, which use more modern designs: https://www.discourse.org ht
by commoner 7y ago
Any recommendations for forum software, preferably open source?
I'm aware of Discourse and Flarum, which use more modern designs:
https://www.discourse.org https://www.discourse.org
https://flarum.org https://flarum.org
phpBB and Simple Machines Forum both use classic designs similar to vBulletin:
https://www.phpbb.com https://www.phpbb.com
https://simplemachines.org https://simplemachines.org
What's the best alternative to vBulletin?
- winger 7y agoAs they are vary in different criteria, the best alternative is roll our own forum using CSS Grid.
- torgoguys 7y agoIt depends on your criteria, but if you're looking for a well-supported, vBulletin-ish forum (focus on being a forum first-and-foremost, similar visual style, similar extensibility system) then XenForo is a very good candidate. If I didn't have a lot of time invested in my vBulletin setup (customization), I would go with them. For now, vBulletin works for me.
- ukyrgf 7y agoOoh I hadn't heard of Flarum yet; I'm going to try that one out. As a user, Discourse forums have always felt bloated and slow. As a developer, I was shocked when I went to their installation documentation and saw it required 1 GB of RAM and 10 GB of disk space.
- KajMagnus 7y agoMaybe Talkyard could be of interest — a bit like Discourse, but has HackerNews type threaded discussions and a basic Slack like chat: https://www.talkyard.io https://www.talkyard.io (I'm developing it). There are some improvements over HN: https://www.talkyard.io/-32/how-hacker-news-can-be-improved-3-things https://www.talkyard.io/-32/how-hacker-news-can-be-improved-...