Alternatives to Simple Machines Forum for all platforms with any license

Discourse

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. Self-hosted...

Freemium $ $ $ Open Source Web Self-Hosted Ruby JavaScript Docker
Forums Integrated Spam Protection Live Push Notifications Mobile friendly ... Patreon Integration REST API Slack integration Trust Level system Add a feature

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Flarum

Flarum is the next-generation forum software that makes online discussion fun. It's simple, fast, and free.

Free Open Source Self-Hosted PHP
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Easy installation Forums Lightweight ... Responsive design Support for Themes Visual design Web Forms Add a feature

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phpBB - creating communities

Since 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...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Self-Hosted PHP
Customer Feedback Forums Add a feature

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MyBB

MyBB is the free and open source, intuitive, extensible, and incredibly powerful forum software you've been looking for. With everything from forums to threads...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web
Chat Forums Integrated Spam Protection Add a feature

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FluxBB

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...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web
Forums Website integration Add a feature

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Vanilla

Vanilla provides a standards-compliant, multi-lingual, theme-able and pluggablecommunity forum software that powers discussion forums on 800,000 sites. It's...

Freemium Web Self-Hosted
Forums Add a feature

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vBulletin

vBulletin (abbreviated as vB) is a commercial Internet forum software produced by Jelsoft Enterprises. It is written in PHP using a MySQL database server.

Commercial Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... PHP
Forums Add a feature

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NodeBB

NodeBB is next generation forum software. It's powerful, mobile-ready and easy to use.

Freemium $ $ $ Open Source Web Self-Hosted MongoDB Redis Node.JS
No features added Add a feature

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XenForo

A compelling community experience. Intuitive. Social. Engaging. Fast. XenForo brings a fresh outlook to forum software.

Commercial $ $ $ MySQL Community Edition Self-Hosted MariaDB PHP
Forums Add a feature

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bbPress

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...

Free Open Source Web
Forums Add a feature

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Invision Community

Invision Community is a flexible, feature-packed and easy to customize platform that powers some of the biggest and best communities on the web.

Commercial $ $ $ Web Self-Hosted
Forums Cloud based Forums Support for Themes Add a feature

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Flatboard

A Simple, Lightweight, Modern and Fast flat-file forum system written in PHP and Json.

Free Open Source Self-Hosted
Flat File CMS Forums Lightweight Add a feature

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PunBB

PunBB is a fast and lightweight PHP-powered discussion board. It is released under the GNU General Public License.
- Discontinued Last release was 4 years ago. Last commit was 2 years ago.
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Self-Hosted
Forums Lightweight Add a feature

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Neurovation.net

Neurovation.net is an idea platform that enables you to individually or collectively create, manage and publish ideas, and to submit them to challenges. Neurovation.net...

Free Web
CrowdSourced Add a feature

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YaBB

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...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web Self-Hosted ... Perl
Customer Feedback Forums Add a feature

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