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Ask HN: What forum software are people using?

3 pointsby johnnycarcinabout 7 years ago
I&#x27;m looking to setup a community forum but have no idea what is available&#x2F;secure these days. I&#x27;m open to self-hosting but a SaaS offering would be cool.<p>I&#x27;m not a huge fan of Discourse, I&#x27;m aware of the &quot;older&quot; types like phpbb and what not and I&#x27;ve even checked out Orange forum (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;s-gv&#x2F;orangeforum). None of them quite feel right so I thought I&#x27;d ask HN what they are using :)

2 comments

KajMagnusabout 7 years ago
There&#x27;s Talkyard, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.talkyard.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.talkyard.io</a> (I&#x27;m developing it). It&#x27;s a forum-software &amp; Slack &amp; StackOverflow hybrid.<p>It&#x27;s free &amp; open source for installation on one&#x27;s own server. There&#x27;s SaaS hosting too.<p>It&#x27;d be interesting to hear if there&#x27;s something you like about Talkyard, and don&#x27;t like about it? And maybe features &amp; integrations you need, that are missing?<p>What will your community be about, if I may ask?
startupflixabout 7 years ago
Discourse, Flarum are two that I can recall.