Storyden Alternatives

Storyden is described as 'With a fresh new take on traditional bulletin board forum software, Storyden is a modern, secure and extensible platform for building communities' and is an app in the social & communications category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Storyden for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Self-Hosted, Linux, Mac and Windows apps. The best Storyden alternative is Discourse. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Discourse or Flarum. Other great apps like Storyden are Simple Machines Forum, MyBB, XenForo and bbPress.

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  1. Discourse icon
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    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.

    70 Discourse alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Ruby
    • JavaScript
    • Cloudron
    • Docker
     
    • Discourse is the most popular Web-based & Self-Hosted alternative to Storyden.

    • Discourse is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Storyden.

    • Discourse is Free Personal and Open SourceStoryden is Free and Open Source
  2. Flarum icon
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    Flarum 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.

    53 Flarum alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Apache HTTP Server
    • PHP
     
  3. phpBB icon
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    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 panel and a user friendly installation process, which allows you to have a forum set up in minutes.

    53 phpBB alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
    • phpBB is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Storyden.

    • phpBB is Free and Open SourceStoryden is also Free and Open Source
  4. MyBB icon
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    MyBB is the free and open source, intuitive, extensible, and incredibly powerful forum software you've been looking for.

    47 MyBB alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. XenForo icon
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    A compelling community experience. Intuitive. Social. Engaging. Fast. XenForo brings a fresh outlook to forum software.

    44 XenForo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • MySQL Community Edition
    • Self-Hosted
    • MariaDB
    • PHP
     
    • XenForo is the most popular commercial alternative to Storyden.

    • XenForo is Paid and ProprietaryStoryden is Free and Open Source
  6. bbPress icon
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  7. Vanilla Forum icon
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. NodeBB icon
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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.

    46 NodeBB alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Sandstorm
    • MongoDB
    • Redis
    • Cloudron
    • Node.JS
     
  9. FluxBB icon
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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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  10. vBulletin icon
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    vBulletin (abbreviated as vB) is a commercial Internet forum software written in PHP using a MySQL database server.

    45 vBulletin alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • PHP
     
    • vBulletin is the most popular Android & iPhone alternative to Storyden.

    • vBulletin is Paid and ProprietaryStoryden is Free and Open Source
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