WoltLab Suite (formerly Burning Board) is an enterprise grade CMS built for communities and forums.
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- Proprietary
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YaBB Alternatives
YaBB is described as '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!' and is a customer feedback manager in the business & commerce category. There are more than 25 alternatives to YaBB for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Web-based, Linux, Windows and Mac apps. The best YaBB 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 YaBB are Simple Machines Forum, MyBB, XenForo and bbPress.
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Booklet is a asynchronous discussion forum as an alternative to chat. It sends calm, automated summaries to everybody so that they stay informed and engaged - without having to stay logged in.
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- Freemium (Subscription)
- Proprietary
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- Software as a Service (SaaS)
Booklet is the most popular SaaS alternative to YaBB.
- Booklet is Freemium and Proprietary
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 mobile experience.
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With Instaforum, you can build a forum website that's as simple and usable as a modern messaging app. It can be public or private, and users don't have to install anything. It's easy to set up, runs on your domain with your branding, and you control your data.
Cost / License
- Subscription
- Proprietary
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- Online
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
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- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
FUDforum (Fast Uncompromising Discussion Forum) is a free and open source web discussion forum. FUDforum combines an extensive feature set while maintaining the ability to generate forum web pages extremely fast.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
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ForumWP is the best forum plugin for WordPress. Use ForumWP to add a forum to your website and create an online community.
Cost / License
- Subscription
- Open Source
Platforms
- Online
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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 types
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
- PHP
Phorum is open source forum software with a penchant for speed. Phorum's very flexible hook and module system can satisfy every web master's needs.
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uCoz 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.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
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- Online
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
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.
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