FluxBB vs PunBB

FluxBB

FluxBB is a fast, light, user-friendly forum application for your website. (by fluxbb)

Communication systems Social Networks and Forums

Source Code

fluxbb.org

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PunBB

PunBB forum (by punbb)

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punbb.informer.com

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FluxBB		PunBB
	Project
3	Mentions	-
503	Stars	184
0.0%	Growth	0.0%
0.0	Activity	0.0
about 1 year ago	Latest Commit	almost 6 years ago
PHP	Language	PHP
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

FluxBB

Posts with mentions or reviews of FluxBB. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-27.

Arch Linux Forms Emailing Plaintext Passwords
1 project | /r/archlinux | 22 Feb 2022

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.
nimforum: Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Nim
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Aug 2021

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
Looking for a place to find friends?
1 project | /r/teenagers | 15 Aug 2021

Also quick suggestion maybe you should look at https://fluxbb.org/ I found it on Arch Linux forums and it seems to work well

PunBB

Posts with mentions or reviews of PunBB. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning PunBB yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing FluxBB and PunBB you can also consider the following projects:

PixelFed - Photo Sharing. For Everyone.

doctum - A php API documentation generator, fork of Sami

flaskbb - A classic Forum Software in Python using Flask.

PHP Documentor 3 - Documentation Generator for PHP

Discourse - A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.

PHPBack - PHPBack is an open source feedback system

phpBB - phpBB Development: phpBB is a popular open-source bulletin board written in PHP. This repository also contains the history of version 2.

php-docbloc - Create and keep updated docBlock of your project files fetching details from composer.json and Git. Supported filetypes: *.php, *.ini, *.sh, *.bat, *.md (No Composer or PEAR need to be installed to use this tool).

APIGen - PHP 7.1 ready Smart and Simple Documentation for your PHP project

MyBB - MyBB is a free and open source forum software.

Flarum Core - Simple forum software for building great communities.