Based on our record, FluxBB seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 3 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
There are no passwords stored plain. The platform that powers the bbs is open source and tiny. You can check in <5 min that it's not doing anything shady here. Source: about 2 years ago
FluxBB [1], the PHP based forum that powers the Archlinux wiki works fine without JS, and IMHO looks fine too. If you are looking for something minimal with threading support, fossil scm [2] includes a forum. You can checkout the forum for fossil itself which is powered by fossil. [1] https://fluxbb.org [2] https://fossil-scm.org/ [3] https://fossil-scm.org/forum/forummain. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
Also quick suggestion maybe you should look at https://fluxbb.org/ I found it on Arch Linux forums and it seems to work well. Source: almost 3 years ago
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