Jappix vs Vanilla Forums

Jappix

:speech_balloon: Jappix, a full-featured XMPP web-client (Jappix Desktop, Jappix Mobile & Jappix Mini). (by jappix)

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Vanilla Forums

Vanilla is a powerfully simple discussion forum you can easily customize to make as unique as your community. (by vanilla)

Communication systems Social Networks and Forums PPnet community-forums Forums Community discussion-board vanilla-forums

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Jappix		Vanilla Forums
	Project
-	Mentions	5
435	Stars	2,822
0.0%	Growth	0.4%
0.0	Activity	5.0
over 3 years ago	Latest Commit	19 days ago
JavaScript	Language	PHP
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	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.

Jappix

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

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

Vanilla Forums

Posts with mentions or reviews of Vanilla Forums. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-23.

Ask HN: What forum software do you recommend?
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jul 2023
Are Vanilla Forums OSS having problems?
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Apr 2023
Best way to create a community website
2 projects | /r/Wordpress | 10 Jan 2023

For something simple, I'd look into bbpress. For something more complex (but that can still integrate with WordPress, check out Xenforo (my favorite) or Vanilla.
Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community
20 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Nov 2021

(Not sure if the latest version supports digest emails though)
https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla
16/30 Google results contain SQL injection vulnerabilities
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Jul 2021

I’m a tech lead for Vanilla Forums (recently acquired by Higher Logic).
We have a few PHP positions open (remote or onsite). The core product is open source https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla
If your looking to stick with PHP you can check the open positions. https://www.higherlogic.com/about/company/jobs/

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Jappix and Vanilla Forums you can also consider the following projects:

Movim - Movim - Decentralized social platform

Reddit

Buddycloud - The buddycloud server written in Java.

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

Friendica - Friendica Communications Platform

Flarum - Simple forum software for building great communities.

diaspora* - A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.

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

nodeBB - Node.js based forum software built for the modern web

Mastodon - Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community

BuddyPress - BuddyPress DEVELOPMENT repo. This repository is just a mirror of the development SVN at https://buddypress.svn.wordpress.org/. Please include a link to a pre-existing ticket on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ with every pull request.