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What's the to-go platform to host a forum?

4 pointsby botoloabout 4 years ago
I have been a long-time user of a comic books forum that unfortunately decided some time ago to migrate to Tapatalk. I now hate even clicking on the forum&#x27;s link because of the ads, pop-ups, etc. of the Tapatalk format.<p>I am trying to convince the other users of the forum to migrate to another platform and I was wondering if there is a clear winner between all the open source platforms out there, such as phpbb, discourse, etc.

6 comments

slaterabout 4 years ago
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.discourse.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.discourse.org&#x2F;</a>
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donny3000about 4 years ago
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gardens.to" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gardens.to</a>
cpachabout 4 years ago
IMHO Discourse is pretty nice.<p>Some other alternatives:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vanillaforums.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vanillaforums.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.simplemachines.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.simplemachines.org&#x2F;</a>
smt88about 4 years ago
reddit, it seems. Can be made private as well.<p>I know that&#x27;s not exactly what you were looking for, but it&#x27;s true that the discussion that used to be on private, unconnected forums is now on reddit.
zzo38computerabout 4 years ago
I would think that NNTP is good. (It would also be possible to provide a web interface in addition to the NNTP; there are a few such programs.)
phendrenad2about 4 years ago
PHPBB is sadly still the best (sadly because PHP is the perhaps-undeserved joke of the programming language kingdom).