Freeforum software

Also, you can easily install Simple Machines Forum on any shared hosting service using the 1-click installation method.

FluxBB is yet another simple and lightweight open source forum. When compared to some others, it may not be super actively maintained but if you just want to deploy a basic forum with a few users, you can easily give this a try.

You can explore more about it in their official website and the GitHub page. Starting from plugin support and moderation tools, you get everything necessary needed to manage a big community.

It also supports private messaging to individual users similar to Discourse and similar forum software. It may not be a popular option but it checks out for most of the use-cases and it completely free. You might want to support and explore the project on GitHub as well. If you want something simpler and unique, have a look at Flarum. It is a lightweight forum software which aims to be mobile-first while offering a fast experience. It supports some third-party integrations and you can extend the functionality using extensions as well.

Personally, it looks beautiful to me. It is worth noting that Flarum is fairly new so it is still in beta. You might want to deploy it on your test server first before taking a leap of faith on your production environment. Do check out their GitHub page for more details. A federated alternative to Reddit built using Rust. The user interface is simple and some of you may not find it to be intuitive enough for an attractive forum experience. The federated network is still a work in progress but if you want a Reddit-like community platform, you can easily deploy it in your Linux server with moderation rules, moderators, and get started.

It supports cross-posting as seen in Reddit along with other basic features of tagging, voting, user avatar, and more. You can explore more about through their official documentation and the GitHub page.

Deploying open source applications and managing Linux servers takes some expertise and time. If you lack either but still want to have your own instance of open source software, we can help you out.

With our new project, High on Cloud , you can leave the deployment and server management part to us while you work on growing your community forum.

Most of the open source forum software offer pretty much the same features for basic use-case. If you are looking for something specific, you might want to explore their documentations. Personally, I recommend Discourse. It is popular, modern looking and has a significant user base. What do you think is the best open source forum software? Did I miss any of your favorites? Let me know in the comments below.

A passionate technophile who also happens to be a Computer Science graduate. You will usually see cats dancing to the beautiful tunes sung by him. I have used this and it is a really great interface with just one php file. It does not require any database and performance is great.

Even the sort features are good. Your community and your data is yours and you can always export it. We don't like dark marketing patterns so we don't have them. Solid SSL protection is standard with every forum. No eavesdropping, plus Google will like you for it. Daily backups are made to an offsite location. No headaches about failing hardware, we have got you covered. Getting tired of patches and upgrades? We do that for you. Plus: lots of extensions are included out of the box.

Missing something? Participate in private conversations with several registered users at a time. MyBB has been carefully developed to be both powerful and extremely efficient. Why MyBB? There are plenty of reasons to use MyBB, but these are some of our favorites.

Rad Community MyBB's friendly community will help you get your community started. Extendable Hundreds of plugins and themes make adding new features or a new look easy. Simple to Use MyBB offers an extensive range of features in an intuitive interface.

Multilingual Community-maintained translations are available for more than 30 languages. Get Involved We're a free and open source project run by volunteers, so contributions from the community keep us going! Even more to offer Don't miss any of the great features you can get with MyBB!

Plugins MyBB offers an advanced plugin system to make adding more features to your forum easy.