Forums
Here I will layout different forums, and the ones I have used and ones I currently use.
Forums I use
- Flarum (https://flarum.org/)
- I still use at Tech Talk Forum
I used to use:
- Simple Machines (https://www.simplemachines.org/)
- I think it was for an old domain and it was called a tech forum.
Open Source Forums
- bbPress (https://bbpress.org/)
- Discourse (https://www.discourse.org/)
- ElkArte (https://www.elkarte.net/)
- Flarum (https://flarum.org/)
- FlashBB (https://flaskbb.org/)
- FluxBB (https://fluxbb.org/)
- miniBB (https://www.minibb.com/)
- MyBB (https://mybb.com/)
- NodeBB (https://nodebb.org/)
- Phorum (https://www.phorum.org/)
- phpBB (https://www.phpbb.com/)
- PunBB (https://punbb.informer.com/)
- Simple Machines (https://www.simplemachines.org/)
- Vanilla Forums (https://vanillaforums.com/en/software/)
Comparisons
Information updated as of August 27th 2020
| Name | License | Free Open Source? | Paid Pricing | Version | Last Update | Language |
| bbPress | GPL | ✅ | ❌ | v2.6.5 | 2020-05 | Wordpress Plugin |
| Discourse | GPL | ✅ | $100/mo | v2.5.1 | 2020-08 | Ruby => 2.5.2 |
| ElkArte | BSD | ✅ | ❌ | v1.1.6 | 2019-07 | PHP => 7.1 |
| Flarum | ✅ | |||||
| FlashBB | ✅ | |||||
| FluxBB | ✅ | |||||
| miniBB | ✅ | |||||
| MyBB | ✅ | |||||
| NodeBB | ✅ | |||||
| Phorum | ✅ | |||||
| phpBB | ✅ | |||||
| PunBB | ✅ | |||||
| Simple Machines | ✅ | |||||
| Vanilla Forums | GPLv2 | ✅ | Contact them | 3.3 | 2019-10 | PHP => 7.1 |