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Written by Kobiac on 2025-01-12 at 18:01

Has anyone experience with the Flarum forum software? Interested in some #FOSS forum software that is newbie friendly and reliable.

Would this be easy to install on a self-hosted domain with mySQL and PHP available?

https://discuss.flarum.org/

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Written by MxFraud on 2025-01-12 at 18:10

@Kobiac I wont ever host php+mysql software, but its ok as far that generation of forum is.

You can sign up to giffgaff forum and you'll have an idea of what a highly customised instance can look like.

It certainly doesn't containerise too well last I look 4 year ago.

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Written by Kobiac on 2025-01-12 at 18:47

@mxfraud Thanks, will look it up.

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Written by MxFraud on 2025-01-12 at 18:53

@Kobiac i would recommend this is you just want Q&A and have a VPS (which I am aware is not the question you asked): https://answer.apache.org/

Single binary, decent (customisable) interface, moderation of it is ok.

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Written by Kobiac on 2025-01-12 at 19:45

@mxfraud Looks interesting. I'm looking for something that could work as a community hub for a game (and is not Discord).

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Written by MxFraud on 2025-01-12 at 19:54

@Kobiac I've been looking at something similar to plug the same gap and its been really hard to find.

So if you do find alternatives that really work for you, I'd love to know.

Also I didn't mention, but if you are into the php ecosystem, it seems that phpbb is still going strong nowadays.

If you don't mind the setup (rails,postgres,redis), loads people settled on discourse as forum software. They also succumbed to the AI nonsense.

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Written by LautreG on 2025-01-12 at 18:22

@Kobiac

Really easy to install and update.

Also, it's available on #Yunohost

https://Yunohost.org

What is a "web hotel" domain?

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Written by Kobiac on 2025-01-12 at 18:49

@lautreg@pouet.chapril.org@pouet.chapril.org Thanks, will look it up. I edited the post and removed «web hotel». It’s a Norwegian expression referring to a self-hosted domain with storage space and opportunities to install web applications (like a blog, or a forum).

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