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Top 23 Forum Open-Source Projects
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Discourse is also open source https://github.com/discourse/discourse
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Project mention: Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-13
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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> I'm a big fan of https://nodebb.org/
TIL to what shit Netgate moved pfSense forums to. I'm glad you are fine with it, but not only my FullHD monitor is not a smartphone, so I don't need 400% fonts on everything (and post dates on the faaaaar right clearly shows nobody ever even used the forum) and most importantly - search doesn't work. It's not like the previous forum had a good search, but at least it worked.
Bonus point: try to Ctrl+mousewheel on any NodeBB (including the official one).
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Apache Answer
A Q&A platform software for teams at any scales. Whether it's a community forum, help center, or knowledge management platform, you can always count on Apache Answer.
Slightly offtopic. If anyone is looking for self-hosted alternative to SO then answer [0] is a great choice. I just brought up an instance at [1] if you want to know how it looks like.
[0]: https://github.com/answerdev/answer
[1]: https://selfhosting.quest [IPv6 only]
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Project mention: Y Combinator's Chief Startup Whisperer Is Demoting Himself | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-16
"I actually wish we had a hacker community like this without the business/startup side at all"
Sounds like you want https://lobste.rs
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Project mention: Yesql - a toolkit to help use std sql or sqlx in go web develop | /r/golang | 2023-03-31
paopao-ce - A artistic "twitter like" community built on gin+zinc+vue+ts.
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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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Project mention: The Reddit blackout has left Google barren and full of holes – TechRadar | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-06-14
Take a look at FlaskBB, it's kind of like those but modern and written in Python.
Also it needs devs.
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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.
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Helpy
Helpy is a modern, open source helpdesk customer support application. Features include knowledgebase, community discussions and support tickets integrated with email.
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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.
Project mention: InVision design collaboration services shutdown | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-04 -
Talkyard
A community discussion platform: Brings together the main features from StackOverflow, Slack, Discourse, Reddit, and Disqus blog comments.
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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
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If the video example does not work, you can use the examples projects in the nim SDL repository. When ex101_init.nim works, there is no reason the video example does not work. If you have further issues, do not hesitate to share a minimal working example with your detailed configuration (Nim compiler version, command line you used, file directory, libraries installed) on the forum.nim-lang.org
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superhighway84
USENET-inspired, uncensorable, decentralized internet discussion system running on IPFS & OrbitDB
https://github.com/gravitl/netmaker
Honorable mention:
SuperHighway84 - more of a Usenet-inspired darknet, but I love the concept + the author's personal website:
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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)
Project mention: InVision design collaboration services shutdown | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-04 -
laravel-forum
A slim, lean forum package designed for quick and easy integration in Laravel projects
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Project mention: AsmBB – a lightweight web forum engine written in assembly language | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-13
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Forum projects? This list will help you:
Project | Stars | |
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1 | Discourse | 40,157 |
2 | Flarum | 14,821 |
3 | nodeBB | 13,833 |
4 | Apache Answer | 11,227 |
5 | Flarum Core | 6,158 |
6 | Lobsters | 3,913 |
7 | paopao-ce | 3,689 |
8 | UnityLibrary | 3,549 |
9 | flaskbb | 2,522 |
10 | Misago | 2,465 |
11 | Helpy | 2,327 |
12 | phpBB | 1,768 |
13 | Talkyard | 1,666 |
14 | Spirit | 1,158 |
15 | MyBB | 1,024 |
16 | Scoold | 811 |
17 | nimforum | 744 |
18 | superhighway84 | 664 |
19 | agreper | 656 |
20 | Satellity | 597 |
21 | Simple Machines Forum | 570 |
22 | laravel-forum | 561 |
23 | jivejdon | 542 |