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Top 23 Social Networks and Forum Open-Source Projects
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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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WorkOS
The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
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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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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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Talkyard
A community discussion platform: Brings together the main features from StackOverflow, Slack, Discourse, Reddit, and Disqus blog comments.
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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 17 international languages.
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Project mention: Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-13
Project mention: Reddit must share IP addresses of piracy-discussing users, film studios say | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-14Lemmy is like Reddit and here because it has threaded comment discussions.
It's also federated, so you can pick a server you like and have discussions with users from various servers together.
https://join-lemmy.org/
Some Reddit apps switched to supporting Lemmy instead when they were kicked off the API.
Humhub for local Facebook.
Currently contributing to Pixelfed project to gain experience: https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/pulls?q=is%3Aclosed+is%...
Project mention: The Reddit blackout has left Google barren and full of holes – TechRadar | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-06-14Take a look at FlaskBB, it's kind of like those but modern and written in Python.
Also it needs devs.
https://github.com/flaskbb/flaskbb
I would like to use this opportunity to also mention about a forum software I am building, Misago: https://misago-project.org/
Around year ago I've started to aggressively pursue improvements to it's UX and featureset which to my surprise resulted in project getting new (small) wave of attention and a lot of great feedback on what else is missing and what needs changed that I am working on at.
I've grown on old school forums, phpBB2, Invision Power Board 2.3, vBulletin 3 and I am trying to hit a sweet spot between old and new, taking inspiration from both other modern solutions like Discourse or Flarum, but also from latest versions of XenForo and Invision Community.
A few more truly in the vibe of open source projects not advertising their hosting providers: https://plane.so/ , https://element.io/ , https://www.loomio.com/ , https://zulip.com/ , and it keeps going... Very few open source projects, in the FOSS sense, are advertising their hosting provider.
The Coral Project [0] (commenting platform used on Washington Post, New York Times, The Verge) uses an Apache 2.0 license [1]. Which doesn't seem to have prevented it from raking in big SaaS customers.
A lot of people worry about copy-cat services, but it's kind of rare that someone will be able to compete with you as the original in hosting your own service as well as you can. Especially when you consider support and maintenance requirements of a new product you aren't personally developing.
I could see copy-cat services being more of an issue in the late stage of a product though? When everyone knows lots about how to stand it up and use it?
[0] https://coralproject.net/
Project mention: InVision design collaboration services shutdown | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-04
When https://siskin.im/ is seriously touted as the best iOS client for XMPP, you already lost 50% of the market share in the US. And if you don't have any usable app for 50% of your users in one of the most important markets, you can not really claim "interoperability", can you?
Don't get me wrong, it would be great if more people were using XMPP. Now that I am more involved in the Fediverse space I'm learning how many wheels are being reinvented and XMPP has already solved. If more people learned about https://movim.eu I'd be able to shut off Communick and move on to do something else to do with my life, but the reality is that XMPP failed to achieve critical mass because it never had someone to complete control the protocol.
Project mention: What is the most useful project you've ever worked on? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-06It's this: https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg
It's pretty long in the tooth now - it's pretty old! But there's an amazing community and new core team that still keeps it up to date.
You might want to look into some of the Facebook-like open-source social networking programs like Friendica, Hubzilla, Libervia, or GNU Social
Excellent! Glad we could get you sorted! Hosting can be scary and it's okay to be afraid to touch things or not understand certain settings or terms. Especially if you're new. The key is to read the documentation. For your forum needs, this can be found at https://mybb.com and https://phpbb.com
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Social Networks and Forum projects? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Flarum | 14,904 |
| 2 | Lemmy | 12,784 |
| 3 | Misskey | 9,468 |
| 4 | Telescope | 7,987 |
| 5 | HumHub | 6,211 |
| 6 | PixelFed | 5,400 |
| 7 | Isso | 4,959 |
| 8 | remark42 | 4,663 |
| 9 | Vanilla Forums | 2,820 |
| 10 | flaskbb | 2,535 |
| 11 | Misago | 2,470 |
| 12 | Loomio | 2,304 |
| 13 | Bootcamp | 2,255 |
| 14 | Pump.io | 2,203 |
| 15 | Coral | 1,864 |
| 16 | phpBB | 1,781 |
| 17 | Movim | 1,691 |
| 18 | Talkyard | 1,669 |
| 19 | Elgg | 1,621 |
| 20 | twister | 1,419 |
| 21 | Friendica | 1,371 |
| 22 | OSSN | 1,031 |
| 23 | MyBB | 1,028 |
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