A shameless self promotion, but for last 10 years or so I've been developing and maintaining my own forum software, Misago: https://misago-project.org/ https:/

A shameless self promotion, but for last 10 years or so I've been developing and maintaining my own forum software, Misago: https://misago-project.org/ https://misago-project.org/ It's build with Python and React, so obviously not so easy to setup like PHP solutions, but there's also a magic docker setup that you can just git clone to your server and get forum running in minutes. But with Misago I am trying to find a sweet spot between "new wave" of forum software and old solutions. So there's plenty of interactivity in the UI that JS provides and there's markdown support, but there's also classic pagination instead of infinite scrolling.