Flarum Alternatives
Similar projects and alternatives to Flarum
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Cloudways
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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.
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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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Talkyard
A community discussion platform: Brings together the main features from StackOverflow, Slack, Discourse, Reddit, and Disqus blog comments.
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Scout APM
Less time debugging, more time building. Scout APM allows you to find and fix performance issues with no hassle. Now with error monitoring and external services monitoring, Scout is a developer's best friend when it comes to application development.
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Simple Machines Forum
Thoughts, Ideas and bits of code for SMF (2.1)
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Lobsters
Computing-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion
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Mattermost
Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle.
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Keycloak
Open Source Identity and Access Management For Modern Applications and Services
Reviews and mentions
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I Miss RSS
Very nice to see the author uses Flarum (https://flarum.org) an open-source forum software to power his blog. Very innovative use!
We also use Flarum to power our user feedback site for Orion browser https://orionfeedback.org another example of Flarum's ability to adopt to different use cases.
- Best alternatives to phpBB? $ or free?
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If you were to start a community forum today, which PHP forum software would you choose and why?
https://flarum.org/ - but in reality it would be reddit or discord. Everyone already connected - why register?
- Ask HN: What’s your favourite gratis self hosted FOSS forum software, as a user?
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Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community
Do you already know Flarum? If so, dis you tried it?
Forums are awesome for this context. It is most of the time better for privacy as well.
But is it just me or whenever I use Discourse forum, my FB container in Firefox shows it has blocked something which FB uses to track me! This bugs me the hell out. And Discourse is everywhere too since it has an open source version.
I think Flarum is awesome and maturing! (https://flarum.org/)
So what's everyone's favourite forum software? Which of the many packages out there would actually be suitable to replicate the usability of Slack/Discord, without making all of the messages disappear like in a black hole?
1) Discourse: https://www.discourse.org/
Looks pretty modern and also offers managed instances if you'd like, but i can't help but to feel that it's pretty JS heavy and there is perhaps too much whitespace, which makes navigating longer threads somewhat cumbersome. To me, it seems like a case of UI > UX, which is an upsetting trend that i've noticed ("make something pretty rather than something functional").
2) Flarum: https://flarum.org/
This one is perhaps a bit better in my eyes as far as the UX is concerned and seems to have actually been developed as a mobile first forum. It does have that modern look while at the same time being reasonably functional, and the idea of putting the forum structure tree in the sidebar actually works pretty well!
3) phpBB: https://www.phpbb.com/
Personally, this is my favourite from the "traditional" forum software, since it's really usable, it keeps a good information density, doesn't lose usability and isn't as JS heavy as any of the other alternatives. Also, there are plenty of plugins and even the default functionality provides you with most of the things that you'd like in a piece of forum software and the hardware requirements are pretty low.
As someone who runs a phpBB forum or two myself, the biggest pain is perhaps updating, since you run into the very same issue of never knowing whether an update will break something or not and you might have to manually alter some config files if things go sideways. Also, admittedly, the admin UX could be better, but i guess that's just the software showing its age.
That said, old is not necessarily always worse.
4) Simple Machines Forum: https://www.simplemachines.org/
To me, it looks like a slightly simpler alternative to phpBB, with similarly good readability, slightly lower information density, but overall a very similar look and feel to phpBB. Can't talk much about its features, but some people have recommended it in the past.
Also, in regards to the free plan memory limitations, has anyone here experimented with self-hosted IM solutions? Personally i'm running a Rocket.Chat (https://rocket.chat/) instance which seems pretty nice and functional, for example, for a smaller software developer team, though others also have had good experiences with Mattermost (https://mattermost.com/) or other software.
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Best Open Source Laravel Projects On GitHub
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Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord
For a PHP based forum, glance at Flarum - I have not tried but it's been on my radar for years.
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Flarum: a forum software
Github: flarum/flarum: Simple forum software for building great communities. (github.com)
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Forum, wiki, single sign on, and static site generator
https://flarum.org/ (php)
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AnonCoj - a XMR-only P2P market place.
It is just an instance of Flarum. https://flarum.org/
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Is there any self-hosted private community software?
My favourite forum software is https://flarum.org/ and IIRC it can be made private.
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