[sekh60]

I'm being completely serious, but what is the current fav open source forum software these days? I'd love to host a forum for a small community I'm involved in. Not a stranger to hosting other things across a variety of stacks, so I'm not particular about technology used.

[__jonas]

Every single forum I see now is using this:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse

Seems to work okay in general. I'm not a big fan of the gamified notification system it seems to have - whenever I sign up for an instance, it'll send me things like "Super reader achievement unlocked! You read 10 threads." or whatever. I suppose it can be turned off since it's OSS.

[mjrbrennan]

I work at Discourse. As a regular user, if you want to prevent these new user badges (and notifications), head to /u/yourusername/preferences/interface and check "Skip new user onboarding tips and badges".

It is in our plans to eventually rework how this new user education and notification system works, and I suppose eventually with https://id.discourse.com/ the intent would be that your preferences follow you to every Discourse site you sign up for, so you could just set it once.

As an admin, badges can be disabled entirely, or individually.

[sevenseacat]

Discourse is awful software, from a user standpoint.

But its better than all the other forum software I've seen...

[q3k]

I hate the scrollbar hijacking and lazy loading on larger threads.

I just want pagination and to use my stock browser features...

[sekh60]

Thanks, I'll have to look into it too, though the gamification sounds annoying AF.

[tingling168]

You could take a look at https://nodebb.org/

[sekh60]

Thanks, I'll check it out :)