Discourse is an open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet. A modern forum, everything's been redesigned to be easy.
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- Ruby
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+1Flarum is free, open-source forum software with a focus on simplicity. You can use Flarum to easily set up a discussion forum for your website. Flarum is developed openly on GitHub.
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- Apache HTTP Server
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+5Since its creation in 2000, phpBB™ has become the most widely used Open Source forum solution. Like its predecessors, phpBB™ 3.2 “Rhea” has an easy to use administration panel and a user friendly installation process, which allows you to have a forum set up in minutes.
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+2Simple Machines Forum — SMF in short — is a free, professional grade software package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes.
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MyBB is the free and open source, intuitive, extensible, and incredibly powerful forum software you've been looking for.
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A community forum allows you to engage and retain customers, keeping them interested and up-to-date with your latest product or service.
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- Freemium • Open Source
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- Sandstorm
- MongoDB
- Redis
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+7A compelling community experience. Intuitive. Social. Engaging. Fast. XenForo brings a fresh outlook to forum software.
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- MySQL Community Edition
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- MariaDB
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bbPress is forum software with a twist from the creators of WordPress. Its focused on web standards, ease of use, ease of integration, and speed. bbPress will try to keep things as small and light as possible while still allowing great add-on feature possibilities.
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Vanilla provides a standards-compliant, multi-lingual, theme-able and pluggablecommunity forum software that powers discussion forums on 800,000 sites.
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FluxBB is a fast, light, user-friendly forum application for your website. FluxBB was designed as a lighter, faster alternative to some of the traditional feature heavy forum applications. It is easy to use and has a proven track record of stability and security making it an...
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Forum(s) built with JavaScript ( with CoffeeScript ) and alternativeto.net/software/json for the database distributed by the network .
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vBulletin (abbreviated as vB) is a commercial Internet forum software written in PHP using a MySQL database server.
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+4Invision Community is a flexible, feature-packed and easy to customize platform that powers some of the biggest and best communities on the web.
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+7WoltLab Suite (formerly Burning Board) is an enterprise grade CMS built for communities and forums.
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- MySQL Community Edition
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+1Booklet is a asynchronous discussion forum as an alternative to chat. It sends calm, automated summaries to everybody so that they stay informed and engaged - without having to stay logged in.
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- Freemium • Proprietary
- Software as a Service (SaaS)