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phpBB seems to be the last man standing in the forum wars. It's interesting reflecting on the multiple forms that online communication has taken over the last 4
by manv1 4y ago
phpBB seems to be the last man standing in the forum wars. It's interesting reflecting on the multiple forms that online communication has taken over the last 40 years.
They all suck in their own special way.
- paulryanrogers 4y agoSimple Machines is still getting updates
- rexreed 4y agoIsn't Flarum an option? https://flarum.org/ https://flarum.org/
- kuramitropolis 4y agoIf you can get over the PHP and the "reinvented" UI... maybe?
- gog 4y agoWhat is the problem with PHP?
- kuramitropolis 4y agoWell, historical baggage, mostly. Everybody keeps saying it's pretty decent these days, and the Flarum codebase looks clean enough.
- ipsum2 4y agoDiscourse is fairly popular.
- alwayslikethis 4y agoI'm not sure why, I think every instance of Discourse seems exactly the same, and in a way this uniformity is getting overbearing. In the ages past different forums, even running on essentially the same software stack like phpBB, had different look and feel that you can see at the first glance. Even though Discourse is not centralized like Reddit, it gives off a similar feeling of sterile-ness.
- qznc 4y agoDFeed is underrated: https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed
- Gordonjcp 4y agoFlaskBB is pretty good, although it needs a little bit of work to make it easily packageable. https://flaskbb.org/ https://flaskbb.org/