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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.

by __jonas8 hours ago|

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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.

by mjrbrennan31 minutes ago|

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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.

by sekh604 hours ago|

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

by mjrbrennan24 minutes ago|

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I responded to the other comment, but I work at Discourse. As a site admin you can disable badges (which is our gamification system) entirely, or you can get rid of individual badges.

If you're interested in trying Discourse, our lowest hosting plan is $20/month, or if you want to self-host there have been a bunch of improvements in the setup process recently, see https://meta.discourse.org/t/self-hosting-discourse-just-got...

by q3k7 hours ago|

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

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

by tingling16810 hours ago|

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

by sekh6010 hours ago|

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Thanks, I'll check it out :)

by mbirth10 hours ago|

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At least this would make FAQs and other important bits of information available to non-users and search engines.