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Vanilla Forums | Simple Machines Forum | |
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5 | 2 | |
2,818 | 574 | |
0.4% | 2.3% | |
5.0 | 9.9 | |
7 days ago | 7 days ago | |
PHP | PHP | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Vanilla Forums
- Ask HN: What forum software do you recommend?
- Are Vanilla Forums OSS having problems?
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Best way to create a community website
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.
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Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community
(Not sure if the latest version supports digest emails though)
https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla
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16/30 Google results contain SQL injection vulnerabilities
Iām 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/
Simple Machines Forum
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Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community
Do yourself a favor and avoid SMF if possible. It "works", but has terrible code quality (prime example [1]) and the addon/module system operates by diffing the original PHP source file and then patching in the needed changes. As you can imagine, this quickly leads to a lot of issues when updating or using multiple addons.
[1] https://github.com/SimpleMachines/SMF2.1/blob/release-2.1/So...
What are some alternatives?
phpBB - phpBB Development: phpBB is a popular open-source bulletin board written in PHP. This repository also contains the history of version 2.
Discourse - A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
Flarum - Simple forum software for building great communities.
MyBB - MyBB is a free and open source forum software.
nodeBB - Node.js based forum software built for the modern web
HumHub - HumHub is an Open Source Enterprise Social Network. Easy to install, intuitive to use and extendable with countless freely available modules.
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.
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