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| Flarum | Simple Machines Forum | |
|---|---|---|
| 59 | 2 | |
| 14,884 | 574 | |
| 0.8% | 2.3% | |
| 2.8 | 9.9 | |
| 25 days ago | 5 days ago | |
| PHP | PHP | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Flarum
- 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.
- Twitter now requires an account to view tweets
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PhpBB
The old PhpBB/VBulletin format has a certain familiar charm to it, but I find it hard to go back after using modern forum systems like Discourse that fix a lot of the old system's UX shortcomings.
Anyone have experience with Flarum (https://flarum.org)? I've been peripherally aware of it for years (it it looks like it's still quite active on GitHub) and it looks like a nice lighter-weight alternative to Discourse which I know gets some flak for being resource-heavy.
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Just remember forums exist
Flarum (full disclosure, I have previously done some development on this one)
- What are the alternatives for Reddit?
Simple Machines Forum
- InVision design collaboration services shutdown
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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...
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.
Talkyard - A community discussion platform: Brings together the main features from StackOverflow, Slack, Discourse, Reddit, and Disqus blog comments.