MyBB
Discourse


MyBB | Discourse | |
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15 | 205 | |
1,110 | 43,189 | |
1.2% | 1.1% | |
6.9 | 10.0 | |
16 days ago | 3 days ago | |
PHP | Ruby | |
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
MyBB
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Best way to host a small forum?
Excellent! Glad we could get you sorted! Hosting can be scary and it's okay to be afraid to touch things or not understand certain settings or terms. Especially if you're new. The key is to read the documentation. For your forum needs, this can be found at https://mybb.com and https://phpbb.com
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PhpBB
I actually recommend myBB [0] over phpBB for anyone looking to set up a LAMP forum. It's cleaner, better written, and possibly better maintained and with a much less scary vulnerability history. I believe it started off as an attempt to create an OSS version of IPB (or was it vB?).
[0]: https://github.com/mybb/mybb or https://mybb.com/
- What are the alternatives for Reddit?
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questions to ask someone to be staff
myBB is a forum software, yes it’s real :)
- Tools for scanning commits?
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How can I create a forum using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript?
As u/Marble_Wraith mentioned. You will find more help and information at r/webdev. That being said, building a Forum is somewhat complex, if you're planning to do so from scratch without any prior knowledge this could be a challenging first task. If it's also an option to use a pre-build app, then https://mybb.com/ is a good starting point. You can also find some information on YouTube about how to get it running.
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What happened to the new offsite backup project?
If you want something done and nobody is doing it, it is best to do it yourself.
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Got Me Kicked Off Nanny Job Fb group!!
She probably intimidated the group moderator, I can't see how any of that would have gotten you kicked out of a group. I suppose you could start your own group or even start one of those free forums like https://mybb.com/ and you decide how members will be vetted and of course everyone use a pseudonym. She probably has an alternate account that isn't her real name., hence why you can't block her. I suppose you could have an alternate account as well.
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Reddit getting an IPO, with $400M investment from Fidelity. Is this important?
https://mybb.com/ free opensource forum software. Any Devs can set it up as a backup?
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Request to meet at Wu Tang C.R.E.A.M when reddit goes dark, instead of PSY gangnam style cuz of distracting🍿claiming as their own. DRS DRS DRS 🫐🫐🫐🟣🟣🟣
Something like this open source https://mybb.com/
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?
FluxBB - FluxBB is a fast, light, user-friendly forum application for your website.
Orange Forum - A light-weight forum
Flarum - Simple forum software for building great communities.
Forem - The best Rails 3 and Rails 4 forum engine. Ever.
phpBB - phpBB Development: phpBB is a popular open-source bulletin board written in PHP. This repository also contains the history of version 2.
Mastodon - Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
nodeBB - Node.js based forum software built for the modern web
Vanilla Forums - Vanilla is a powerfully simple discussion forum you can easily customize to make as unique as your community.
flaskbb - A classic Forum Software in Python using Flask.

