Ask HN: What forum software are people using?

3 pointsjohnnycarcin2 comments

I'm looking to setup a community forum but have no idea what is available/secure these days. I'm open to self-hosting but a SaaS offering would be cool.

I'm not a huge fan of Discourse, I'm aware of the "older" types like phpbb and what not and I've even checked out Orange forum (https://github.com/s-gv/orangeforum). None of them quite feel right so I thought I'd ask HN what they are using :)

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There's Talkyard, https://www.talkyard.io (I'm developing it). It's a forum-software & Slack & StackOverflow hybrid.

It's free & open source for installation on one's own server. There's SaaS hosting too.

It'd be interesting to hear if there's something you like about Talkyard, and don't like about it? And maybe features & integrations you need, that are missing?

What will your community be about, if I may ask?

Discourse, Flarum are two that I can recall.

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