Since its creation in 2000, phpBB has become the most widely used Open Source forum solution. With a large and highly customisable set of key features coupled with a standards compliant interface, phpBB will grow with, and complement your website. With millions of installations worldwide, it is no wonder phpBB is one of the most popular ways to create and support a community. 
 Its features include : 
 <UL>
	<LI>Full text search
	<LI>Private Message System
	<LI>UTF-8 Support
	<LI>Security
	<LI>Anti Spam 
	<LI>Multiple database support
	<LI>Polls
	<LI>File Attachments
	<LI>Caching
	<LI>Users and Groups management
	<LI>Email notification
	<LI>Easy moderation using control panel
	<LI>Support for styles and themes
	<LI>Localization
	<LI>Plug-in support
 </UL>

Since its creation in 2000, phpBB has become the most widely used Open Source forum solution. With a large and highly customisable set of key features coupled with a standards compliant interface, phpBB will grow with, and complement your website. With millions of installations worldwide, it is no wonder phpBB is one of the most popular ways to create and support a community.

phpBB

Simple Machines Forum (SMF) is a free, professional grade software package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes. Its powerful template engine provides a unique look and feel to the site. 

 It has WAP and WAP2 support for wireless devices. It has ability to create child boards under other boards. (sub boards) and assign moderators to boards. Track users and their IP. Generate printer-friendly topics. Its major feature include Users management, Full text search support, File based caching, SEO friendly, Anti spam system, Forum stats, Private messaging, Polls, RSS feeds, smiley, Spell checker, WYSIWYG, Image gallery, Calendar support to add events, Powerful moderation tools and lot more. 
 
 Its a feature rich product. It is open source product with their <A HREF="http://www.simplemachines.org/about/license.php" target="_blank">own licensing terms and conditions</A>. The product should not be distributed without the owner knowledge. 
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Simple Machines Forum (SMF) is a free, professional grade software package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes. Its powerful template engine provides a unique look and feel to the site. 

Simple Machines Forum - Elegant, Effective and Powerful

Discourse is a platform for community discussion. Whenever you need a mailing list, a forum to discuss something, a chat room where you can type paragraphs, consider Discourse. It provides a flattened discussion, which avoids the pains of threaded forums, and delivers a more robust, intuitive interface to join a conversation at any point.


Discourse - Discussion Platform like Stackoverflow

NodeBB Forum Software is powered by Node.js and built on either a Redis or MongoDB database. It utilizes web sockets for instant interactions and real-time notifications. NodeBB has many modern features out of the box such as social network integration and streaming discussions, while still making sure to be compatible with older browsers.
 
NodeBB is mobile-first, allowing for a perfect experience no matter what device or resolution it's viewed on. It also supports Real-time Streaming, SEO, Internationalization, Analytics, Social Integration and lot more.

NodeBB Forum Software is powered by Node.js and built on either a Redis or MongoDB database. It utilizes web sockets for instant interactions and real-time notifications. NodeBB has many modern features out of the box such as social network integration and streaming discussions, while still making sure to be compatible with older browsers.

NodeBB - Node.js based forum software built for the modern web

JForum is a powerful and robust discussion board system implemented in Java. It provides an attractive interface, an efficient forum engine, an easy to use administrative panel, an advanced permission control system and much more. Built from the ground up around a MVC framework, it can be deployed on any servlet container or Application Server, such as Tomcat, Resin and JBoss. Its clean design and implementation make JForum easy to customize and extend. It is fast ans scalable. JForum caches frequently accessed data to avoid excessive querying of the database. 

 Its features include: 
 <UL>
	<LI>Easy installation through graphical web interface</LI>
	<LI>Unlimited forums, categories, and topics.</LI>
	<LI>Support for several popular databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle and HSQLDB.</LI> 
	<LI>Karma - Rate messages and users.</LI> 
	<LI>Bookmarks.</LI> 
	<LI>Easy migration from phpBB.</LI> 
	<LI>Friendly URLs.</LI>
	<LI>Listing of currently online users.</LI>
	<LI>RSS syndication.</LI>
	<LI>Email notifications for topics on private messages.</LI> 
	<LI>Integrated private message system.</LI> 
	<LI>Topics can be locked/unlocked and moved between forums.</LI>
	<LI>Robust security system.</LI> 
	<LI>Supports individual themes/templates for users.</LI> 
	<LI>Support for different languages; easy to add new languages.</LI>
	<LI>User and Group management.</LI>
 </UL>

JForum is a powerful and robust discussion board system implemented in Java. It provides an attractive interface, an efficient forum engine, an easy to use administrative panel, an advanced permission control system and much more.

JForum

Forem is open source software for building communities. Communities for your peers, customers, fanbases, families, friends, and any other time and space where people need to come together to be part of a collective. dev.to (or just DEV) is hosted by Forem. It is a community of software developers who write articles, take part in discussions, and build their professional profiles. 

Forem - For empowering community

Phorum is a message board software that is designed to meet different needs of different web sites while not sacrificing performance or features. 

 It has hook support which allow webmaster to create modules for using external authentication, altering message data before its stored, adding custom information about users or messages etc. Phorum gives the web designers the power to rearrange the data in any shape, form or fashion they could want. The templates are in pure HTML with simple to understand text commands embedded in them. 

 It has all kind of features that a forum / discussion board should have. Its features include users and roles management, RSS feed, full text search, private messaging, bread crumb navigation, BBCode, Smiley, Event logging, spam prevention, Developer API support, WYSIWYG editor. 
 
 Phorum has more numbers of add-ons like Google-maps integration, Spell checker, Forum stats, Image gallery, User tagging, Highlight search terms, Facebook integration and lot more. External Application could use its User database to provide authentication and user management. 

 It is widely used and it is used in <A HREF="http://forums.mysql.com/" target="_blank">MySQL community forum</A>. Check out their <A HREF="http://www.phorum.org/phorum5/index.php" target="_blank">community page</A> and <A HREF="http://www.phorum.org/demo/" target="_blank">demo</A>, both are powered by Phorum. 
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Phorum is a message board software that is designed to meet different needs of different web sites while not sacrificing performance or features. MySQL community forum is powered by Phorum.

Phorum - PHP based forum software

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

MyBB is a forum package full of useful and to-the-point features, helping you to make administrating your bulletin board as easy as possible. It is a professional and efficient discussion board. Its features include:
 <UL>
	<LI>Security - performed security audits and rewritten code to make sure that no vulnerabilities</LI>
	<LI>Speed - optimized to be speedy on any occasion</LI>
	<LI>AJAX support</LI>
	<LI>Inline Moderation</LI>
	<LI>Access control</LI>
	<LI>Have an unlimited number of members, forums, posts, threads</LI>
	<LI>MySQL Fulltext search capabilities</LI>
	<LI>Completely customizable with our intuitive templates and theme system</LI>
	<LI>Powerful user control panel</LI>
	<LI>Custom profiles and settings per user</LI>
	<LI>Signatures, avatars, buddy and ignore lists and forum subscriptions</LI>
	<LI>Reputation system allowing members to rate each other</LI>
	<li>Attach multiple files to a single post</li>
	<li>Automatic thumbnail generation for attached images</li>
	<li>Clickable smilies and BB Code</li>
	<li>Quick moderation options for moderators</li>
	<li>Email notification of new posts</li>
	<li>Create polls with multiple options and attach them to threads</li>
	<li>Forum statistics page</li>
 </UL>

MyBB is a forum package full of useful and to-the-point features, helping you to make administrating your bulletin board as easy as possible. It is a professional and efficient discussion board.

MyBB - professional,efficient discussion board

Vanilla is a powerful community publishing platform, and it comes with a great set of features. It has add-ons to embed your vanilla forums in to any of the site with single line of code. User will be allowed to login with their Facebook, Twitter, Google and OpenID account. 
	
Vanilla has all functionality of a Forum software. It supports Managing users and roles, Spam detection, Talk to your community by writing messages. Messages can appear anywhere in the application, and can be used to inform your users of news and events. 

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Vanilla is a powerful community publishing platform, and it comes with a great set of features. It has add-ons to embed your vanilla forums in to any of the site with single line of code. User will be allowed to login with their Facebook, Twitter, Google and OpenID account.

Vanilla forums - customizable discussion forum with mobile support

FUDforum (Fast Uncompromising Discussion Forum) has the ability to generate forum web pages extremely fast. It can also act as a Mailing List Manager, USENET newsreader and even an XML Feed Aggregator. This will allow you to build an instant community and consolidate all your messages into a single system. Its features include Templating System, i18n Support, Polls, Full text search, Custom tags, IP tracking and lot more.

FUDforum - Fast Uncompromising Discussion forum

esoTalk is free, open-source Internet forum software written in PHP and MySQL. It is intent on being extremely simple, fast, and modern, containing all of the essential features a forum might need, and a powerful plugin system allowing developers to extend it in any way they like.

esoTalk - Forum Software Reinvented

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

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