Forum

Top 23 Forum Open-Source Projects

  • Discourse

    A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.

    Project mention: Introducing the new Godot Forum | /r/godot | 2023-12-08

    Discourse is also open source https://github.com/discourse/discourse

  • Flarum

    Simple forum software for building great communities.

    Project mention: Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-13
  • 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.

  • nodeBB

    Node.js based forum software built for the modern web

    Project mention: Don't Use Discord as a Forum | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-13

    > 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).

  • 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.

    Project mention: Inside The Decline of Stack Exchange | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-14

    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]

  • Flarum Core

    Simple forum software for building great communities. (by flarum)

  • Lobsters

    Computing-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion

    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

  • paopao-ce

    🔥An artistic "twitter like" community built on gin+zinc+vue+ts 清新文艺微社区

    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.

  • 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.

  • UnityLibrary

    :books: Library of all kind of scripts, snippets & shaders for Unity

  • flaskbb

    A classic Forum Software in Python using Flask.

    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.

    https://github.com/flaskbb/flaskbb

  • Misago

    Misago is fully featured modern forum application that is fast, scalable and responsive.

    Project mention: PhpBB | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-06-16

    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.

  • Helpy

    Helpy is a modern, open source helpdesk customer support application. Features include knowledgebase, community discussions and support tickets integrated with email.

  • 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.

  • Spirit

    Spirit is a modern Python based forum built on top of Django framework (by nitely)

  • MyBB

    MyBB is a free and open source forum software.

    Project mention: Best way to host a small forum? | /r/webhosting | 2023-12-08

    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

  • Scoold

    A Stack Overflow clone for teams (self-hosted or hosted)

  • nimforum

    Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Nim

    Project mention: How can I add graphics to my nim program? | /r/nim | 2023-06-04

    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

  • superhighway84

    USENET-inspired, uncensorable, decentralized internet discussion system running on IPFS & OrbitDB

    Project mention: Would we still create Nebula today? | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-10-13

    https://github.com/gravitl/netmaker

    Honorable mention:

    SuperHighway84 - more of a Usenet-inspired darknet, but I love the concept + the author's personal website:

    https://github.com/mrusme/superhighway84

  • agreper

    Minimal, no-JS web forum software

  • Satellity

    Yet another open source forum written in Golang, React and PostgreSQL.

  • 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

  • jivejdon

    Jivejdon is a Domain Driven Design appication with CQRS/ES/Clean/Hexagonal architecture

    Project mention: AsmBB – a lightweight web forum engine written in assembly language | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-13
  • SaaSHub

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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). The latest post mention was on 2024-03-16.

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Project Stars
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
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