twister vs Vanilla Forums

twister

twister core / daemon (by miguelfreitas)

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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open.vanillaforums.com

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twister		Vanilla Forums
	Project
1	Mentions	5
1,419	Stars	2,822
-	Growth	0.3%
0.0	Activity	5.0
3 months ago	Latest Commit	15 days ago
C++	Language	PHP
MIT License	License	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.

twister

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

Twister: Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Microblogging
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Apr 2022

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 twister and Vanilla Forums you can also consider the following projects:

Mastodon - Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community

Reddit

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

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

Flarum - Simple forum software for building great communities.

Pump.io - Social server with an ActivityStreams API

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

Misskey - 🌎 An interplanetary microblogging platform 🚀

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

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.