Kunena is the ideal forum extension for Joomla. It's free, fully integrated, and no bridges or hacks are required.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
- Joomla
- Global
phpBB Alternatives
One of the most popular alternatives to phpBB is Discourse, which is open source and free for personal use. Other popular alternatives are Flarum, XenForo, Invision Community and Vanilla Forum. Forum Software like phpBB are a crowded field, with more than 50 alternatives for self-hosting, the web, Linux, Windows and Mac.
Alternatives list
AsmBB is high performance web forum software, written entirely in assembly language. It is very lightweight, but provides decent set of features and ultimate performance.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
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IkoBB is a new open source bulletin board which aim it is to fullfill the wishes and dreams of it's community. New technologies like emojis, identicons and responsive design are the core of this bulletin board.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
- PHP
PunBB.NET is a forum written using the ASP.NET technology.
This forum is simple, fast and lightweight. The forum's core itself is only a basis, which allows attaching various extensions to it. This makes it possible for you to have a discussion board,which can be fine-tuned.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
- Self-Hosted
279 uCoz alternativesuCoz is a free website-builder that includes hosting and a website management system. uCoz works according to the principles of Web 2.0 and allows creating of the most complicated projects with extraordinary simplicity and speed.
Platforms
- Online
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
Russia
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
Forum(s) built with JavaScript ( with CoffeeScript ) and alternativeto.net/software/json for the database distributed by the network .
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Self-Hosted
- Python
- JSON
- JavaScript
- ZeroNet
- Global
YaBB is a free Perl forum (bulletin board) system that has rivaled professional message boards for years. YaBB provides chat for visitors where they can post any time and reply to anyone!.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
- Perl
Create your own Social Network - for free! Including own forums, own chat rooms, groups, members, photos, videos and much more.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Online
It's basically a closed source self hosted new and re-thinked forum solution, which can also work as commenting system.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Online
United States
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Germany
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