PunBB vs Flarum Core

PunBB

PunBB forum (by punbb)

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punbb.informer.com

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Flarum Core

Simple forum software for building great communities. (by flarum)

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Source Code

flarum.org

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PunBB		Flarum Core
	Project
-	Mentions	3
184	Stars	6,184
0.0%	Growth	0.8%
0.0	Activity	8.7
almost 6 years ago	Latest Commit	12 days ago
PHP	Language	PHP
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	MIT License

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.

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.

Flarum Core

Posts with mentions or reviews of Flarum Core. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-17.

Some forum software written in Rust
12 projects | /r/rust | 17 Feb 2023

Obviously forums aren't as popular as they used to be, so this topic might not be of interest to many. For folks that want to run a forum, they'd most certainly go with Discourse (Ruby), Flarum (PHP), Xenforo (PHP), NodeBB (Javascript), Nimforum (Nim) and maybe Casnode (Go)
Why does some open source Laravel software separate their project into two repositories?
2 projects | /r/laravel | 31 Jan 2022

Projects such as Flarum have separated their project into a core repository and anoverall complete "main" repository.
Hacktoberfest: 69 Beginner-Friendly Projects You Can Contribute To
67 projects | dev.to | 29 Sep 2020

https://github.com/flarum/core Simple forum software for building great communities.

What are some alternatives?

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

doctum - A php API documentation generator, fork of Sami

HumHub - HumHub is an Open Source Enterprise Social Network. Easy to install, intuitive to use and extendable with countless freely available modules.

PHP Documentor 3 - Documentation Generator for PHP

Symfony - The Symfony PHP framework

PHPBack - PHPBack is an open source feedback system

FluxBB - FluxBB is a fast, light, user-friendly forum application for your website.

laravel-forum - A slim, lean forum package designed for quick and easy integration in Laravel projects

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

Sami