[HacktionLab] Forum software recommendations

Fri May 23 13:51:44 UTC 2014

I did research on them all and phpBB came out simplest and easiest for 
my forum - you can check it here for quickest install and theme (did it 
very quickly) > dowhatyoulove.0id.org/forum   and you can of course 
change themes easily with all of them

and though phpBB might be those who are looking to get something on 
there quickly rather than look for specific requirements, phpBB seems to 
have almost everything out of the box most people would want or would 
like later...

perhaps it would be useful to you and me if people pointed the major 
differences (all vs. phpBB!) Some interfaces might be much better 
elsewhere but apart from that overall might other packages might still 
lose out on others fronts. The support for phpBB is great too.

You could start from any specifics or desires you have and match them to 
a few forum software... some examples from the web should inspire that...

xYo  ♥ dowhatyoulove.0id.org ♥
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> Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 08:57:43 +0100
> From: Marcus Valentine <marcus at marcusv.org>
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> Subject: [HacktionLab] Forum software recommendations
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> I'm looking for recommendations for forum software. This will be used by
> a community orchestra. It will be private, so won't need a public facing
> sign up facility.
>
> I guess the features I am interested include:
>
> * A straightforward and logical admin interface;
> * Not too heavy weight, as the volume of messages and number of users
> will be in the 10s rather than hundreds.
>
> I used phpBB years ago.
>
> Thanks
>
> Marcus
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> Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 09:04:28 +0100
> From: "Mick - Clearerchannel.org" <mickfuzz at clearerchannel.org>
> To: hacktionlab at lists.aktivix.org
> Subject: Re: [HacktionLab] Forum software recommendations
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> On 23/05/14 08:57, Marcus Valentine wrote:
>> I'm looking for recommendations for forum software. This will be used by
>> a community orchestra. It will be private, so won't need a public facing
>> sign up facility.
>
> http://www.discourse.org/
>
> Has anyone set up this yet?
> is it open or faux-pen?
>
> https://github.com/discourse/discourse
>
> mozilla are using it here at the moment
> http://discourse.webmakerprototypes.org/
>
> also this seems to be a similar email / forum hybrid option
> http://groupserver.org/
> used here too
> http://lurk.org/groups/80c/
>
> nice one
> Mick
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> Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 09:19:02 +0100
> From: Marcus Valentine <marcus at marcusv.org>
> To: hacktionlab at lists.aktivix.org
> Subject: Re: [HacktionLab] Forum software recommendations
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> On 23/05/2014 09:04, Mick - Clearerchannel.org wrote:
>>
>> On 23/05/14 08:57, Marcus Valentine wrote:
>>> I'm looking for recommendations for forum software. This will be used by
>>> a community orchestra. It will be private, so won't need a public facing
>>> sign up facility.
>>
>> http://www.discourse.org/
>>
>> Has anyone set up this yet?
>> is it open or faux-pen?
>>
>> https://github.com/discourse/discourse
>>
>> mozilla are using it here at the moment
>> http://discourse.webmakerprototypes.org/
>>
>> also this seems to be a similar email / forum hybrid option
>> http://groupserver.org/
>> used here too
>> http://lurk.org/groups/80c/
>>
>> nice one
>> Mick
>
> I looked at discourse, as someone else mentioned it. It looks nice. It
> also looks like it would take the best part of a day to set up (Ruby on
> Rails, Postgres, Redis server cache etc).
>
> Groupserver looks interesting, but also seems to have a relatively heavy
> install footprint.
>
> Thanks
>
> Marcus
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> Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 10:15:30 +0100
> From: Christian Wach <needle at haystack.co.uk>
> To: "hacktionlab at lists.aktivix.org" <hacktionlab at lists.aktivix.org>
> Subject: Re: [HacktionLab] Forum software recommendations
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> You could try Commons in a Box. It's WordPress with a curated set of BuddyPress and bbPress plugins. 10 minutes to install.
>
> http://commonsinabox.org/
>
> Cheers,
>
> Christian
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> On 23 May 2014, at 08:57, Marcus Valentine <marcus at marcusv.org> wrote:
>
>> I'm looking for recommendations for forum software. This will be used by
>> a community orchestra. It will be private, so won't need a public facing
>> sign up facility.
>>
>> I guess the features I am interested include:
>>
>> * A straightforward and logical admin interface;
>> * Not too heavy weight, as the volume of messages and number of users
>> will be in the 10s rather than hundreds.
>>
>> I used phpBB years ago.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Marcus
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