Vanilla Forums vs twister

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Vanilla Forums		twister
	Project
5	Mentions	1
2,820	Stars	1,419
0.4%	Growth	-
5.0	Activity	0.0
10 days ago	Latest Commit	3 months ago
PHP	Language	C++
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.

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/

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

What are some alternatives?

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

Reddit

Mastodon - Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community

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

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

Flarum - Simple forum software for building great communities.

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

Pump.io - Social server with an ActivityStreams API

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

Misskey - 🌎 An interplanetary microblogging platform 🚀

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.