Ask HN: Is there a new and interesting open source forum library?

networked · on Oct 8, 2020

Since 2018 the distributed version control system Fossil has a forum built into it. The forum content is cloned with the repository just like the code and the issues. Fossil's own forum serves as a demo: https://fossil-scm.org/forum/forummain.

krapp · on Oct 6, 2020

Unfortunately independent forums have more or less died thanks to social media. Even most new forums seem to be offered strictly as services rather than hostable code.

It's not new but if you want to dig into Arc Lisp you might consider contributing to or forking Anarki[0], the public fork of the software running HN.

[0]https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki

el_dev_hell · on Oct 7, 2020

That does seem to be the case, unfortunately.

I will check out Anarki.

pkrotich · on Oct 6, 2020

Not sure if it meets your "interesting" criteria but I like https://flarum.org

type0 · on Oct 6, 2020

Talkyard (written in Scala) https://github.com/debiki/talkyard

Misago (Django based) https://github.com/rafalp/Misago/

el_dev_hell · on Oct 7, 2020

Talkyard is exactly the kind of project I hoped existed.

Thanks!

unicornporn · on Oct 6, 2020

I remeber Vanilla being quite nice. MyBB is much lighter than phpBB and can also use sqlite.