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phpBB Alternatives
Similar projects and alternatives to phpBB
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SonarQube
Static code analysis for 29 languages.. Your projects are multi-language. So is SonarQube analysis. Find Bugs, Vulnerabilities, Security Hotspots, and Code Smells so you can release quality code every time. Get started analyzing your projects today for free.
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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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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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lenny
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) A more user-respectful fork of Lemmy. Created for https://derpy.email.
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Zulip
Zulip server and web application. Open-source team chat that helps teams stay productive and focused.
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Lobsters
Computing-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion
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Laravel
Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We’ve already laid the foundation for your next big idea — freeing you to create without sweating the small things.
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Ghost
Turn your audience into a business. Publishing, memberships, subscriptions and newsletters.
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Mattermost
Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle.
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WordPress
WordPress, Git-ified. This repository is just a mirror of the WordPress subversion repository. Please do not send pull requests. Submit pull requests to https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop and patches to https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ instead.
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SaaSHub
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A First Look at Hanami 2 for Ruby
I have had a test Hanami application since the beta 1 release. It is a plain old server-rendered discussion forum - think something like phpBB. The app checks how much effort it takes to add common features to a Hanami application, such as user authentication, file uploads, etc.
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‘I am 30 years old and I miss the old internet. The beautiful people are in charge, just like everywhere else’
All the old forum software is still "out there" and still being developed, like vbulletin and phpBB so in principle there's no reason why we couldn't bring them back...
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Mashup of Reddit and discord - does this exist?
Maybe a kind of Forum like phpBB (one of the most known and old around) will fit your needs?
- Ask HN: Is there a self-hosted alternative to Facebook Groups?
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I miss the the old Web 1.0
BBS/Forums: Simple Machines or phpBB
- What Other Open Source Apps Run on XAMPP/Php + SQL?
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Would anyone be interested in joining a forum alongside this subreddit and discord server?
I'm thinking about diversifying how users can access CodingHelp by opening a forum. Either ran with MyBB, phpBB or XenForo (XF). This is something I would add in 2022 as I haven't even started looking into the 3 software platforms I would choose from. I know the differences from past experiences, but I haven't used them in years.
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Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community
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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Ask HN: What is the next Reddit, for you? (2020)
https://www.phpbb.com - the #1 free, open source bulletin board software
- Lemmy a federated open-source alternative to Reddit
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www.influxdata.com | 1 Feb 2023
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phpbb/phpbb is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 only which is an OSI approved license.
phpBB is marked as "self-hosted". This means that it can be used as a standalone application on its own.
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