Vanilla Forum Alternatives

Vanilla Forum is described as 'Vanilla provides a standards-compliant, multi-lingual, theme-able and pluggablecommunity forum software that powers discussion forums on 800,000 sites' and is a Forum Software in the social & communications category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Vanilla Forum for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Web-based, Linux, Windows and Mac apps. The best Vanilla Forum alternative is Discourse. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Flarum or phpBB. Other great apps like Vanilla Forum are Simple Machines Forum, MyBB, NodeBB and XenForo.

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Vanilla Forum alternatives page was last updated Jun 17, 2024
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  1. Thredded icon

    Thredded

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    Feature-rich and lightning fast forums. Works standalone or as a Rails engine. Markdown by default, with plugins for code highlighting, KaTeX math, and BBCode. No JavaScript required. Easy deployment on Heroku or with Ansible.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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    miniBB

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    miniBB is a standalone, open source program for building your own Internet forum. If you want a lite, simple and stable message board attached to your existing website at the very high integration level, which may include the full customization of the layout to the look of your...

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Country of Origin

    • International

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  4. PunBB icon

    PunBB

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    PunBB is a fast and lightweight PHP-powered discussion board. It is released under the GNU General Public License.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    Discontinued

    Last release was 4 years ago. Last commit was 2 years ago.

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

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    PlushForums

    Plush is the most polished, user-friendly forum experience ever, featuring real-time discussions, beautiful design, an integrated blog, member directory, private messaging, paid subscriptions and a world-class mobi...

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    Foru.ms

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    Cloud Hosted Forum Communities.

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  7. ElkArte icon

    ElkArte

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    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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  8. Clevada icon

    Clevada

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    Clevada is an All-In-One Cloud Software Suite with Website Builder, Community Forum, Help Desk, Knowledge Base, Internal Communication and more.

    License model

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    Admin dasboard

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Privacy focused

    Features

    1.  Kanban Board
    2.  Real time collaboration
    3.  Reminders
    4.  No Tracking
    5.  Calendar View
    6.  Hierarchical Structure
    7.  Gantt-charts
    8.  No Coding Required
    9.  WYSIWYG Support
    10.  Task Time Tracking
    11.  Intranet Function
    12.  Knowledge base

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  10. Spirit (Forum) icon

    Spirit (Forum)

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    Spirit is a modern Python based forum built on top of Django framework.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    comments

    Spirit (Forum) Features

    1.  Django

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  11. YaBB icon

    YaBB

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    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!.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Perl
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    Discontinued

    4 years ago last post on facebook, domain can't be resolved

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    MUUT

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    It's basically a closed source self hosted new and re-thinked forum solution, which can also work as commenting system.

    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Online
    Forum - All Post

    MUUT Features

    1.  Embeddable

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    Tribe Community Platform

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    Tribe is a white-label platform, empowering the new generation of online communities. It boosts users engagement and growth through widgets and integrations to existing stacks.

    35 Tribe Community Platform alternatives

    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • CA flagCanada

    Platforms

    • Online
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    Properties

    1.  Customizable

    Features

    1.  Personalized Recommendations
    2.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    3.  Custom widgets
    4.  User Analysis
    5.  Extensive customisability
    6.  Private Groups
    7.  Single Sign-On
    8.  Activity feed
    9.  White-labeled

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    Heeduser

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    eeduser is the customer engagement platform that helps companies build better relationships with their customers and prospects, through the better online customer community.

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    Heeduser screenshot 1

    Heeduser Features

    1.  Real time collaboration
    2.  Idea

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  15. LayerBB icon

    LayerBB

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    LayerBB is a small yet feature rich community software which enables you to quickly and easily start your own community. It offers great flexibility and easily customisable.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    LayerBB screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    domain sold, 3 years ago last commit

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