Hway
Flarum

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Hway
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I would love some feedback on my first big project in learning web dev! Hway, a forum site built with plain Typescript, Javascript, HTML, CSS, with MongoDB for databasing, Bcrypt for user auth (no libraries or frameworks) - sourcecode in comments
Source code
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Would love some feedback on my first (self-taught) big project, Hway, a forum site built with JavaScript, Typescript, MongoDB, Bcrypt, plain HTML, plain CSS, and Nodejs.
Source code here - https://github.com/mapleweekend/hway
Flarum
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Looking for the best forum software to start a new forum community in 2025
Flarum is great [1].
Looks good, works on mobile, continuously updated.
Try it out.
Edit: Oh wow, downvoted for posting a good recommendation?
1: https://flarum.org/
- Stop Using Discord
- Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum
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Introducing the new Godot Forum
Nice! I kinda wish they went with https://flarum.org/ instead of discourse, though. I think Flarum is the better forum software and it is also open source.
- Best way to host a small forum?
- Don't Use Discord as a Forum
- Ask HN: What forum software do you recommend?
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Simple WYSIWYG html editor? Open source or cheap.
I've been playing around with a new open source forum called Flarum for my blog. It's a forum by nature but it has a blog extension and with some work you can get it to be just a blog that looks pretty nice. I just recently finished getting mine moved over (I rarely blog but here it is) - I'm not too sold on it yet either though so there's that.
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I'm curious to know what are the main applications that people deploy and use frequently on a daily basis?
Have you looked at Flarum?
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Ask HN: Is the internet as we knew it, dead?
I'm currently investigating Flarum for my forum. Have you seen it?
https://flarum.org/
What are some alternatives?
Discourse - A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
MyBB - MyBB is a free and open source forum software.
nodeBB - Node.js based forum software built for the modern web
phpBB - phpBB Development: phpBB is a popular open-source bulletin board written in PHP. This repository also contains the history of version 2.
Vanilla Forums - Vanilla is a powerfully simple discussion forum you can easily customize to make as unique as your community.
laravel-forum - A slim, lean forum package designed for quick and easy integration in Laravel projects
flaskbb - A classic Forum Software in Python using Flask.
Movim - Movim - Decentralized social platform
Simple Machines Forum - Simple Machines Forum — SMF in short — is free and open-source community forum software, delivering professional grade features in a package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes!
Talkyard - A community discussion platform: Brings together the main features from StackOverflow, Slack, Discourse, Reddit, and Disqus blog comments.
GNU social - GNU social is social communication software for both public and private communications.
