Discourse
Open Source
Discourse is a civilized discussion platform for your community. Use it as a mailing list, discussion forum, long-form chat room, and more.
Flarum
Open Source
Flarum is the next-generation forum software that makes online discussion fun.
Simple Machines Forum
Open Source
Simple Machines Forum software, or SMF software, is an open source, Internet forum, message-board.
vBulletin
Commercial
vBulletin (vB) is an Internet forum software package written in PHP and uses a MySQL database server.
IP.Board
Commercial
IPS Community Suite (Invision Power Suite) is an Internet community software.
NodeBB
Open Source
NodeBB is a forum software.
phpBB
Open Source
phpBB is an Internet forum package in the PHP language.
MyBB
Open Source
MyBulletinBoard is a free and open source forum software.
FluxBB
Open Source
PunBB (PunBulletinBoard) is a lightweight PHP-based internet discussion board system. It is released under the GNU General Public License. The projects primar…
Vanilla
Freemium
Vanilla is an open source PHP based forum software.
XenForo
Commercial
XenForo is an Internet forum software package written in the PHP using the Zend Framework.
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