Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord

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  • Discourse

    A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.

  • What about Discourse? They have an open source, self-hostable version:

    https://github.com/discourse/discourse

  • tildes

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • tildes

    GitHub mirror of the Tildes source - official location is https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes/

  • Lobsters

    Computing-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion

  • Lemmy

    🐀 A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse

  • Postmill

  • notabug

    Federated fork of classic reddit UI based on gunDB

  • SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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  • Reddit

  • nodeBB

    Node.js based forum software built for the modern web

  • I've not tried but this has been on my radar for years: a forum than runs on Node - NodeBB

    https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB

  • Flarum

    Simple forum software for building great communities.

  • For a PHP based forum, glance at Flarum - I have not tried but it's been on my radar for years.

    https://github.com/flarum/flarum

  • zulip-archive

    Generate a static HTML archive of messages in any combination of streams in a Zulip organization.

  • Search engine indexing is available in Zulip today via Zulip's public archive tool (https://github.com/zulip/zulip-archive). Many larger OSS projects using Zulip, like Rust, Julia, and Lean Prover, use it.

    We expect to have a native feature allowing a configurable set of streams to be browsed using a real Zulip web app UI without creating an account, available in beta in the next few weeks; we're actively integrating the implementation via https://github.com/zulip/zulip/pull/18532.

    We plan to look at optional search indexing in that native implementation once the logged-out access feature is complete complete.

  • Zulip

    Zulip server and web application. Open-source team chat that helps teams stay productive and focused.

  • Search engine indexing is available in Zulip today via Zulip's public archive tool (https://github.com/zulip/zulip-archive). Many larger OSS projects using Zulip, like Rust, Julia, and Lean Prover, use it.

    We expect to have a native feature allowing a configurable set of streams to be browsed using a real Zulip web app UI without creating an account, available in beta in the next few weeks; we're actively integrating the implementation via https://github.com/zulip/zulip/pull/18532.

    We plan to look at optional search indexing in that native implementation once the logged-out access feature is complete complete.

  • selfhost

    Selfhost your Forem Community on your own infrastructure 🎉

  • We (I work for Forem) have an opensource selfhost installer [0] so you can have total control over your data and community too.

    [0] https://github.com/forem/selfhost

  • Talkyard

    A community discussion platform: Brings together the main features from StackOverflow, Slack, Discourse, Reddit, and Disqus blog comments.

  • > > after few months I can't update to a new version

    > forum owners often won't upgrade their website ... plugins that likely will break

    Maybe then it'd make sense if I mentioned Talkyard (which I'm developing) https://www.talkyard.io (open source) — it has automatic upgrades. There's not yet any plugin system, instead currently "everything" is built-in, and there are (unfortunately) fewer features.

  • SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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