A modern, open-source and multi-lingual helpdesk, including email tickets, knowledgebase and forums. All your customer communications in one place, accessible from anywhere. Its features include multi-lingual knowledgebase, community discussions and private tickets integrated with email and lot more. 

Helpy - Modern Mobile-First Helpdesk Application Built in Ruby

YetAnotherForum.NET (YAF) is the Discussion Forum for sites running ASP.NET. 100% written in C#, YAF (pronouced like "laugh") is a unique combination of Open Source, Microsoft's .NET platform and an international collaboration of the .NET developer community. Growing and changing daily, the YAF project is lead by Jaben Cargman of Tiny Gecko. YAF runs on any web server that supports ASP.NET v2.0 (and above) and SQL Server. 
 
 Its feature includes: 	
 <UL>
	<LI>Quick and easy installation.</LI>
	<LI>Unlimited number of categories, forums and messages.</LI>
	<LI>Includes private messaging and private messaging notification features.</LI>
	<LI>Unlimited user groups, with option to automatically promote users based on number of posts.</LI>
	<LI>Access rights based on groups.</LI>
	<LI>Polls can be added to posts.</LI>
	<LI>Administrators can mass email to all users or specific group.</LI>
	<LI>Template for easy integration with your current site design.</LI>
	<LI>Web based administration.</LI> 
	<LI>Active topics and users list.</LI>
	<LI>Print and Email topics.</LI>
	<LI>Supports smileys/emoticons.</LI>
	<LI>IP banning.</LI>
	<LI>Points for points system.</LI>
	<LI>Multiple boards support.</LI>
	<LI>Comes with many themes to choose from.</LI>
	<LI>Supports common "Rich Text Editors" including FreeTextBox and FCKEditor</LI>
 </UL>

YetAnotherForum.NET (YAF) is The Open Source Discussion Forum for sites running ASP.NET. 100% written in C#, YAF (pronouced like "laugh") is a unique combination of Open Source, Microsoft's .NET platform and an international collaboration of the .NET developer community. Growing and changing daily, the YAF project is lead by Jaben Cargman of Tiny Gecko. YAF runs on any web server that supports ASP.NET v2.0 (and above) and SQL Server.

YetAnotherForum.NET -  ASP.NET Forum

Misago aims to be complete, featured and modern forum solution that has no fear to say 'NO' to common and outdated opinions about how forum software should be made and what it should do.
 
Its features include: 
<ul>
<li>Your users may register accounts, set avatars, change options and edit their profiles. They have option to reset forgotten password.</li>
<li>Sign in with Facebook, Google, Github, Steam, Blizzard.net or any other over 50 supported OAuth providers.</li>
<li>Site admins may require users to confirm validity of their e-mail addresses via e-mail sent activation link, or limit user account activation to administrator action. They can use custom Q&amp;A challenge, ReCAPTCHA, Stop Forum Spam or IP's blacklist to combat spam registrations. Pletora of settings are available to control user account behaviour, like username lengths or avatar restrictions.</li>
<li>Create categories together with unlimited number and depth of subcategories.</li>
<li>Write messages using either GitHub flavoured markdown, BBCode subset, or both.</li>
<li>Presence features let site members know when other users are online, offline or banned. Individual users have setting to hide their activity from non-admins.</li>
<li>Complete moderation toolset allowing admin-approved moderators to edit, move, hide, approve, delete or close user posted content. This also includes option to delete or block user accounts or avatars.</li>
<li>Ban system allows you to ban existing users as well as forbid certain user names, e-mails or IP addresses from registering accounts.</li>
<li>Permission system allowing you to control which features are available to users based on their rank, roles or category they are in.</li>
<li>Post accurate read tracker that lets your users spot threads with new posts as well as let moderators spot unapproved replies and non-moderators spot approved posts.</li>
<li>Private threads feature allowing users to create threads visible only to them and those they've invited.</li>
<li>Python-based profile fields framework letting site owners to define custom fields for users to fill in complete with powerful customization options for custom requirements, display or validation logic.</li>
<li>Rich polls system, allowing polls with public and private voters, single and multiple choices as well as ones that allow vote change or limit voting tp limited period of time.</li>
<li>Post attachments complete thumbnailing and gif's animation removal.</li>
<li>Mark post in question thread as best answer, bringing basic Q&amp;A functionality.</li>
<li>Posts edits log allowing you to see how user messages used to look in past as well as revert function protecting you from malignant users emptying their posts contents.</li>
<li>Moderation queue for users and categories allowing you to moderate content before it becomes visible to other members of the community.</li>
<li>Custom theme developed over bootstrap.</li>
<li>Features and settings for achieving GDPR compliance.</li>
<li>Integrate forum with your site using implemented Single Sign On client and JSON API.</li>
</ul>

Misago aims to be complete, featured and modern forum solution that has no fear to say 'NO' to common and outdated opinions about how forum software should be made and what it should do.



Misago - Full featured forum application standing on shoulders of Django

Flarum is the next-generation forum software that makes online discussion fun. It has elegant UI so that user can spend less time clicking and more time talking. Two-Pane Interface - Bring your mouse to the left side of the screen and the discussion list will conveniently appear, Infinite Scrolling, Floating Composer,  The interface has been optimized for touch, with big buttons, smooth animations, and gestures aplenty. 

Flarum - Forums made simple

Postmill is a free, web-based, social link aggregator with voting and threaded comments. It is built on the Symfony framework. Any similarities between this software and that of a large community symbolised by an alien logo are purely coincidental.

Postmill - Social link aggregator with voting and nested comments

The Chatter package allows you to easily create a Laravel forum from any existing or new Laravel application.

Chatter - Simple Laravel Forum Package

XWiki is a collaborative software, which allows the users to create and collaboratively edit pages or entries via a web browser. It's use cases are diverse: collaborative intranet, knowledge base, CMS, competitive intelligence, public debate, collaborative creation of school courses, web site creation, etc. XWiki is divided into Wikis and Pages. Inside a wiki, you can create a hierarchy of pages, by creating pages inside other pages. It offers more than <a href="https://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">600 extensions</a>.
Its feature include
<ul>
<li>Page editing</li>
<li>Version Control</li>
<li>Rights</li>
<li>Search</li>
<li>Exports</li>
<li>Blog</li>
<li>File Manager</li>
<li>Meetings</li>
<li>Forums</li>
<li>Tasks</li>
<li>User management</li>
<li>Backup/Restore</li>
<li>Database Administration</li>
<li>Multi Tenancy</li>
</ul>
&nbsp;

XWiki - The Advanced Open Source Enterprise Wiki

FlaskBB os a classic Forum Software in Python with a Modern and Fresh look. Its features include Private Messages, Admin Interface, Group based permissions, Markdown Support, Topic Tracker, Unread Topics/Forums, i18n Support, Completely Themeable, 
Plugin System, Command Line Interface and lot more.


FlaskBB - A classic Forum Software in Python using Flask

Kunena is a native Joomla forum and communications component written in PHP. Kunena enables forums, bulletin board, support forums, discussions and comments for a Joomla base website.

Kunena Forum - Forum / Bulletin Board / Discussions component for Joomla

Symphony is a modern community platform. It implements a content oriented discussion forum. It includes a social network for users to share, make friends, and play games. It has the ability to aggregate independent bloggers, to build and share quality resources. 

Symphony - A modern community (forum/BBS/SNS/blog) platform written in Java

Aether is a peer-to-peer network of independent, self-moderated communities. It is a Open source, self-governing communities with auditable moderation and mod elections. Aether is private by default, so that you can choose to be fully private, or fully public yourself. Most people use pseudonyms, though you can use your real name, or company. 
 
 Actions of moderators are visible to users. No content can just 'disappear', if something gets deleted, you'll know who did it, why they did it, and if you want, how to get it back. Communities can elect and impeach their own mods by voting. If a mod behaves inappropriately, users can disable that mod locally as well.

Aether is a peer-to-peer network of independent, self-moderated communities.  It is a  Open source, self-governing communities with auditable moderation and mod elections. Aether is private by default, so that you can choose to be fully private, or fully public yourself. Most people use pseudonyms, though you can use your real name, or company. 

Aether - peer-to-peer network of independent, self-moderated communities

Bebop is a simple discussion board / forum web application.Create a new empty database (MySQL оr PostgreSQL) that will be used as a data store and a database user with all privileges granted on this database.
 
Features include: 
<ul>
<li>REST API backend written in Go</li>
<li>Vue.js-based frontend</li>
<li>Two databases are supported:
<ul>
<li>PostgreSQL</li>
<li>MySQL</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Three file-storage backends are supported to store user-uploaded files (e.g. avatars):
<ul>
<li>Local filesystem</li>
<li>Google Cloud Storage</li>
<li>Amazon S3</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Social login (OAuth 2.0) via three providers:
<ul>
<li>Google</li>
<li>Facebook</li>
<li>Github</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>JSON Web Tokens (JWT) are used for user authentication in the API</li>
<li>Single binary deploy. All the static assets (frontend JavaScript &amp; CSS files) are embedded into the binary</li>
<li>Markdown comments</li>
<li>Avatar upload, including animated GIFs. Auto-generated letter-avatars on user creation</li>
</ul>

Bebop is a simple discussion board / forum web application.Create a new empty database (MySQL оr PostgreSQL) that will be used as a data store and a database user with all privileges granted on this database.

Bebop - Simple discussion board / forum web application.

FluxBB is a fork of PunBB, is designed as a lighter, faster alternative to some of the traditional feature heavy forum applications. It is easy to use and has a proven track record of stability and security making it an ideal choice of forum for your website. It has Clean admin interface, Flexible permission system, Powerful moderator tools and lot more.


FluxBB - Fast, light, user-friendly forum application for your website

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