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Top 10 Best Free Open Source Forum Software to Setup own Discussion Forum

phpBB PlushForums bbPress Invision Community XenForo ZetaBoards FluxBB miniBB Vanilla Forums MyBB
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    Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi is a cheap, credit-card sized computer. The official website uses phpBB for their discussion forums. phpBB is not affiliated with nor responsible for any of the sites listed on the showcase.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Forums And Forum Software #Forums #Community Platform 2 social mentions

  2. PlushForums is a modern online forum hosting platform.
    If you thinking to build modern design Forums, with the great user interface and features, then PlushForums will stand for all your needs. Besides clean and attractive design, it has lots of features like Integrated blog, Real Time Discussion, Private Messaging, Member Directory, Custom Profile and Paid Subscription option. And the best part you don’t require any technical knowledge to setup your own forum site with PlushForums.

    #Forums And Forum Software #Community Platform #Forums

  3. bbPress is forum software with a twist from the creators of WordPress.
    bbPress makes it very simple for a user to create a unique discussion forum within the WordPress based website as it enables easy setup and offers various useful features to reduce the load. It concentrates more on fast performance, effortless integration, web standards, and extensive usability. It has clean and modern design and provides simple installation process. You can manage the website completely with ease using the centralized admin panel and split your website into multiple sections.

    #Forums And Forum Software #Forums #Community Platform 5 social mentions

  4. Invision Community is a flexible, integrated set of apps for building communities on the web.

    #Forums And Forum Software #Forums #Community Platform

  5. Intuitive. Social. Engaging. Fast. XenForo brings a fresh outlook to forum software.
    XenForo is one of the most intuitive extensible and highly flexible community software which provides speed, durability, and compelling community experience. It offers a wide range of useful features such as integration with Facebook for easy sharing of the content, allows members to follow each other and see the recent activities of your forum, style property editor to change the look and feel as per your convenience, sends alerts on every response by viewer on any post, resource manager with multiple add-ons and many more.

    #Forums And Forum Software #Forums #Community Platform 10 social mentions

  6. ZetaBoards offers free forum hosting that serves a site for growing an online community.
    Zetaboards features free hosting for the forum that delivers excellent service to develop an online community and works like a perfect place to meet, discuss and share. It is highly customizable and allows the user to change the look and feel according to each community without any hassle. It provides a simple platform with powerful features to create an exceptional forum and the large-scale documentation and effective support make it easy to manage the website too. The tool is highly popular and has been used by thousands of people globally.

    #Community Platform #Forums And Forum Software #Forums

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    FluxBB is a fast, light, user-friendly forum application for your website.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Forums And Forum Software #Forums #Community Platform 3 social mentions

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    miniBB is a standalone, open source program for building your own Internet forum.
    miniBB is an open source application which gives you the ability to operate independently from a single hardware smoothly. The program is free and highly customizable, which makes it preferable to build an engaging discussion forum on the internet. It features a PHP bulletin board script for simple and durable messaging and seamless integration with your existing membership tool. The program is perfect to create a unique forum and handle big communities, thousands of users or unlimited posts with a normal computer. It’s clear and valid coding enables better results in search engine optimization.

    #Forums And Forum Software #Forums #Community Platform

  9. Build an engaging community forum using Vanilla's modern cloud forum software.

    #Forums And Forum Software #Forums #Community Platform 3 social mentions

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    MyBB is a discussion board software that runs on PHP and MySQL
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    MyBB is a free application for discussion forums which is scripted in PHP language and uses MySQL database. The application includes almost everything which is required to run an effective and fascinating community smoothly. It uses an instructive discussion board set up so which allows viewers to begin and respond to interactions and tag their posts. In order to keep the forum neat and noteworthy, the administrators, as well as the evaluators, can utilize the MyBB inline editing and moderation features which are an extensive feature to maintain the significance of the discussion system.

    #Forums And Forum Software #Forums #Community Platform 8 social mentions

  11. Simple Machines offers free open source software such as SMF, the powerful and easy to use community forum written in PHP. Start interesting discussions on your website!
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Forums And Forum Software #Forums #Community Platform 4 social mentions

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