Symphony vs phpBB

Symphony

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Communication systems Social Networks and Forums

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

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Symphony		phpBB
	Project
-	Mentions	60
12,474	Stars	1,781
-	Growth	1.1%
9.4	Activity	9.7
over 4 years ago	Latest Commit	5 days ago
Java	Language	PHP
-	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.

Symphony

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

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

phpBB

Posts with mentions or reviews of phpBB. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-04.

InVision design collaboration services shutdown
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Jan 2024
How to Create a Discussion Forum Using PHP and MySQL?
4 projects | dev.to | 17 Sep 2023

phpBB (https://www.phpbb.com/) phpBB, short for "PHP Bulletin Board," is a popular open-source forum software written in PHP scripting language.
Screw reddit, let's remake digg v4
1 project | /r/RedditAlternatives | 3 Jul 2023
If Reddit dies…where does Xbiking go?
2 projects | /r/xbiking | 21 Jun 2023

We go old school baby 😎. A 90s solution for 90s bikes.
[meta] Post-blackout update
3 projects | /r/left_urbanism | 21 Jun 2023

Explore going extremely old school with your own phpBB community. Can't enshittify a forum that exists outside of time and space!
Got forum pages and the mobile site working. New theme too! Some people already have early access.
1 project | /r/ObjectShows | 19 Jun 2023

No. It’s based on phpBB.
Ask HN: Forum Software Similar to Reddit?
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jun 2023

I have not tried this one, but Postmill [1] is similar to HN and phpBB [2] is an off the shelf forum platform with incredible moderator capabilities but I think an add-on is required for voting.
[1] - https://gitlab.com/postmill/Postmill
[2] - https://www.phpbb.com/
Update from Lemmy after the Reddit blackout
3 projects | /r/technology | 18 Jun 2023

Just like this is a phpBB forum: https://forum.ubuntu-it.org/ and this is the software behind it: https://www.phpbb.com/
Reddit CEO slams protesters, says he'll change moderator rules
1 project | /r/technology | 17 Jun 2023

Boop
PhpBB
1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 16 Jun 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Symphony and phpBB you can also consider the following projects:

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

Oxwall

dyu/comments - A real-time, markdown-enabled comment engine powered by leveldb with oauth support

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

Socialhome - A federated social home

Mastodon - Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community

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

Lemmy - 🐀 A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse

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

Talkyard - A community discussion platform: Brings together the main features from StackOverflow, Slack, Discourse, Reddit, and Disqus blog comments.

Simple Machines Forum - Simple Machines Forum — SMF in short — is free and open-source community forum software, delivering professional grade features in a package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes!