FluxBB
Discourse
| FluxBB | Discourse | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 205 | |
| 520 | 42,906 | |
| 0.0% | 1.1% | |
| 0.0 | 10.0 | |
| almost 2 years ago | 4 days ago | |
| PHP | Ruby | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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FluxBB
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Arch Linux Forms Emailing Plaintext Passwords
There are no passwords stored plain. The platform that powers the bbs is open source and tiny. You can check in <5 min that it's not doing anything shady here.
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nimforum: Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Nim
FluxBB [1], the PHP based forum that powers the Archlinux wiki works fine without JS, and IMHO looks fine too.
If you are looking for something minimal with threading support, fossil scm [2] includes a forum. You can checkout the forum for fossil itself which is powered by fossil.
[1] https://fluxbb.org
[2] https://fossil-scm.org/
[3] https://fossil-scm.org/forum/forummain
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Looking for a place to find friends?
Also quick suggestion maybe you should look at https://fluxbb.org/ I found it on Arch Linux forums and it seems to work well
Discourse
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Looking for the best forum software to start a new forum community in 2025
Discourse may be worth considering https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/docs/INSTAL...
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8 Open-Source Tools to grow your app and reach new markets! 🔥
Star the Discourse repository ⭐
- 智变时代 - FAV0周刊#012
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Era of Intelligent Transformation - FAV0 Weekly #012
Open Source Community Forum
- Ask HN: User communities that aren't Discord?
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How even the simplest RAG can empower your team
You need some Ruby library that we can try out here. Letʼs go for Discourse.
- Stop Using Discord
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Discord to Start Showing Ads for Gamers to Boost Revenue
> Tell me another platform that is free, has realtime chat, voice and video, has stable service, allows sharing images and other media, with good ownership management... and is open source.
Mattermost: https://mattermost.com/
Rocket.Chat: https://www.rocket.chat/
Nextcloud Talk: https://nextcloud.com/talk/
Self hosting and some assembly required. I've run all of them on cheap VPSes to explore a Slack/Discord replacement, neither was mindblowing but all of them seemed okay (Nextcloud's offering was rather barebones, though).
Audio and video support varies because getting those right is challenging, at best you'd just integrate with something like Jitsi, that one's actually pretty good for meetings and such: https://jitsi.org/ and has a cloud version too: https://meet.jit.si/ (yet people still go for Zoom and it's odd UI/UX choices)
I actually rather liked forums back in the day, but I guess nobody will be setting up that many phpBB instances in the current year, though projects like Discourse also seem promising: https://www.discourse.org/
I don't think many people at all will be leaving Discord, due to how entrenched the platform is (network effect): if you want people to help you with what you're working on, you go where they are, not vice versa.
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Introducing the new Godot Forum
Discourse is also open source https://github.com/discourse/discourse
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My views on NeoHaskell
I disagree. Lots of communities, e.g. Julia or Stan, use https://www.discourse.org. Discourse is GPL2 and emulates old Internet forums.
What are some alternatives?
phpBB - phpBB Development: phpBB is a popular open-source bulletin board written in PHP. This repository also contains the history of version 2.
Orange Forum - A light-weight forum
MyBB - MyBB is a free and open source forum software.
Forem - The best Rails 3 and Rails 4 forum engine. Ever.
flaskbb - A classic Forum Software in Python using Flask.
PixelFed - Photo Sharing. For Everyone.
Flarum - Simple forum software for building great communities.
PHP Documentor 3 - Documentation Generator for PHP
Mastodon - Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
PunBB - PunBB forum
nodeBB - Node.js based forum software built for the modern web