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Top 23 PHP Communication system Projects
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Project mention: Looking for the best forum software to start a new forum community in 2025 | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-26
Flarum is great [1].
Looks good, works on mobile, continuously updated.
Try it out.
Edit: Oh wow, downvoted for posting a good recommendation?
1: https://flarum.org/
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.
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Project mention: Any social platforms not focused on algorithms? | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-21
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HumHub
HumHub is an Open Source Enterprise Social Network. Easy to install, intuitive to use and extendable with countless freely available modules.
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Project mention: Roundcubemail: Open-Source Webmail Suite with Modern UX and Full IMAP Support | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-30
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Project mention: OpenNMS: Visualize and monitor everything on your local and remote networks | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-19
I recommend [librenms/librenms: Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system](https://github.com/librenms/librenms), which is Open source and free.
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Project mention: Free, Open-Source Anonymous Email Forwarding – Addy.io | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-12
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Vanilla Forums
Vanilla is a powerfully simple discussion forum you can easily customize to make as unique as your community.
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CodeRabbit
CodeRabbit: AI Code Reviews for Developers. Revolutionize your code reviews with AI. CodeRabbit offers PR summaries, code walkthroughs, 1-click suggestions, and AST-based analysis. Boost productivity and code quality across all major languages with each PR.
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Live Helper Chat
Live Helper Chat - live support for your website. Featuring web and mobile apps, Voice & Video & ScreenShare. Supports Telegram, Twilio (whatsapp), Facebook messenger including building a bot.
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phpBB
phpBB Development: phpBB is a popular open-source bulletin board written in PHP. This repository also contains the history of version 2.
Hmh, that's a drawback to me. I like to have different accounts for different things and keep them more or less strictly separated. I use two subreddits and each has its own account.
On average I'd say account creation has become harder because everybody and her child tries to shunt you into some social sign-in but it still is not difficult to make accounts. "Modern" password managers make it a breeze to juggle many accounts, and frankly, what Netscape Navigator could do almost 30 years ago was already enough for that.
Same goes for forums. phpbb [1] can run on any LAMP potato and you get a whole boatload of potatoes for 2 EUR/month at Hetzner. I don't know what HN requires, but I guess it's not much more. The hard part of forums are the people needed to keep order and Reddit is not helping there, quite the opposite.
Sorry, I notice I'm grumpy.
[1] https://www.phpbb.com/
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Project mention: Any social platforms not focused on algorithms? | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-21
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OSSN
Open Source Social Network (OSSN) is a social networking software written in PHP. It allows you to make a social networking website and helps your members build social relationships, with people who share similar professional or personal interests. It is available in 19 international languages.
Project mention: Welcome to Coding Standards for Open Source Social Network (OSSN) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-08-15 -
Cypht
Cypht: Lightweight Open Source webmail aggregator [PHP, JS]. Supports IMAP/SMTP, JMAP and EWS (Exchange Web Services)
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FusionPBX
Official FusionPBX - A full-featured domain based multi-tenant PBX and voice switch for FreeSwitch.
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phpList
Fully functional Open Source email marketing manager for creating, sending, integrating, and analysing email campaigns and newsletters.
Project mention: The 50 best open-source alternatives to popular SaaS software | dev.to | 2024-07-10GitHub: phpList GitHub Repository
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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! (by SimpleMachines)
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WebMail Lite
AfterLogic WebMail Lite PHP. Fast and easy-to-use webmail front-end for your existing IMAP mail server, Plesk or cPanel.
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Anahita
Anahita is a platform and framework for developing open science and knowledge sharing applications on a social networking foundation.
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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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Index
What are some of the best open-source Communication system projects in PHP? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Flarum | 15,694 |
| 2 | PixelFed | 6,546 |
| 3 | HumHub | 6,421 |
| 4 | Roundcube | 6,205 |
| 5 | LibreNMS | 4,162 |
| 6 | AnonAddy | 3,732 |
| 7 | Vanilla Forums | 2,923 |
| 8 | Live Helper Chat | 2,050 |
| 9 | phpBB | 1,910 |
| 10 | Elgg | 1,652 |
| 11 | Friendica | 1,547 |
| 12 | MyBB | 1,138 |
| 13 | OSSN | 1,116 |
| 14 | Cypht | 1,076 |
| 15 | FusionPBX | 843 |
| 16 | phpList | 784 |
| 17 | Simple Machines Forum | 641 |
| 18 | FluxBB | 522 |
| 19 | Mibew | 474 |
| 20 | WebMail Lite | 447 |
| 21 | Anahita | 441 |
| 22 | BuddyPress | 233 |
| 23 | Zusam | 200 |
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