Simple Machines Forum
Symphony
| Simple Machines Forum | Symphony | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | - | |
| 575 | 12,474 | |
| 0.3% | - | |
| 9.9 | 9.4 | |
| 6 days ago | over 4 years ago | |
| PHP | Java | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | - |
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Simple Machines Forum
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Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community
Do yourself a favor and avoid SMF if possible. It "works", but has terrible code quality (prime example [1]) and the addon/module system operates by diffing the original PHP source file and then patching in the needed changes. As you can imagine, this quickly leads to a lot of issues when updating or using multiple addons.
[1] https://github.com/SimpleMachines/SMF2.1/blob/release-2.1/So...
Symphony
We haven't tracked posts mentioning Symphony yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
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