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Ask HN: Recommended community/forum software?

by Hisoka on 10/10/11, 5:12 PM with 4 comments

I'm looking for any open source forum software, but something that looks modern, and clean. Not like Invision, or PhpBB. Any recommendations?
  • by declancostello on 10/10/11, 5:25 PM

    vBulletin has run a lot of big forums and finding someone who has experience skinning it should be easy.

    also, http://vanillaforums.org/

  • by dmarinoc on 10/13/11, 8:48 PM

    Not exactly what you're looking for, but it's a really good solution: http://osqa.net

    As a user I prefer an stackoverflow clone instead of a typical forum

  • by pavel_lishin on 10/10/11, 5:12 PM

    Well, any forum can be skinned to look nice.

    I've always been a fan of vBulletin, but I have no idea what's available now.

  • by pestaa on 10/12/11, 9:36 PM

    I've been researching this area lately too, I wanted something like MyBB but with better internals.