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ElkArte

ElkArte is a modern, powerful community building forum software. It is completely free to use and is licensed with an open source BSD-3 clause license.

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  • Free
  • Open Source

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  • Self-Hosted
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ElkArte needs the database collation utf8_general_ci, it would not install on a database with collation _utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci _in my experience, although there were no problems installing other content management systems.

Apart from that, ElkArte is a good forum software with many possibilites. The first administration takes some time, because you can make many settings in the configuration menu. For example, you can create private or public boards, decide if posts should be moderated or not etc. etc. In short, it has all those features of the more famous and better known forums, but is quite slim, nonetheless.

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What is ElkArte?

ElkArte is a modern, powerful community building forum software. It is completely free to use and is licensed with an open source BSD-3 clause license. It's designed to provide you with all the features you need for a full featured community forum and website right out of the box.

KEY FEATURES:

  • @Mentioning users including notifications
  • Likes for posts and topics
  • Drafts, including auto save
  • OpenID 2.0
  • Two modern, responsive themes that look good in any modern browser, smartphone or tablet.
  • Integrated video embedding for youtube, vimeo and dailymotion
  • Drag and drop ordering in the administration interface
  • Drag and drop file attachments
  • Improved Anti Spam measures
  • Improved password hashing using industry standards
  • Bad Behaviour built in
  • Automatic combining and minifying of JavaScript and CSS
  • Posting by Email
  • Ajax previews and responses throughout the user interface
  • Utilizes jQuery and Font Awesome