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Status update: * GlyphGryph is still the owner of the host (but he doesn't want to be bothered with it, which is fair, he volunteered to maintain the forums for years with basically no recognition for it). * I have retrieved the login credentials I need to address the issue. (My fault that I didn't have these, not GlyphGryph's). * Plan A: I've secured hosting on discourse, and will try and import the forum history there, it will be migrating to discourse.cataclysmdda.org (note the .org). I have a discourse instance running, I just need to run the import workflow, which is supposedly pretty reliable, but time-consuming. * Plan B: Get smf.cataclysmdda.com running again. (temporary solution, AFAIK this hosting WILL be going away in March of next year) * Plan C: Migrate smf.cataclysmdda.com to a new host. People have randomly offered hosting, might take them up on it, but I'd prefer discourse.
+1 for the effort to introduce a new forum.
-1 for the use of outdated, clunky, non-threaded forum software. That AMA is painful to trawl through.
I'm curious - what would have been wrong with Discourse?
would be pretty interesting to find a funding vehicle for that though LOL
although I guess if you told Platform One or some other DoD wide initiative to set up a Mattermost or Discourse that required CAC login but allowed you to change your username that could work....
I mean, anyone can create a forum-type website nowadays, but surely, you must be aware that you’ll never get the same "heartbeat" (i.e. community) of the forum you used to visit, right?.. unless you kept the emails of every single user on there?
Also, I know I’m just stating the obvious here, but it’s a lot harder than before to grow a community outside of social media. Most people don’t go out of their way to go on some website to talk about a specific topic. Everything is a hub now where you hand-pick your favorite topics and get blasted with everything all at once.
Anyway, I wish you the best of luck. I can relate to reminiscing about the good ole days of an online community.
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Eu também!
Eu gosto tanto de Fórum, que hoje eu trabalho no Discourse que nada mais é o Fórum clássico com algumas mudanças de Qualidade de Vida (infinite scroll, markdown igual reddit pros posts, notificação no celular, etc).
No Brasil em especial, a galera adotou a merda dos grupos de FB e WPP muito forte, mas quem é da antiga sabe que é impossível ter uma discussão de verdade nesses lugares.
O Discourse vai muito bem, mas aqui no BR é bem difícil começar um hoje.
I think your going to need to increase your budget if you want a professional theme, and tone down your language a bit if you want to be taken seriously. Have you looked at discourse - https://www.discourse.org/
First of all: congrats to this new job, really happy it worked out for you - I say that as one of those asking why you wouldn't apply there already.
Are you considering to make use of reddit itself to allow pseudonymous discussions? Or are you building something new (or check Discourse)? I really crave meaningful online discussions on news articles, but really can't stand the current situation on most sites.
The top 2 features on reddit for me (and I say this as a long time lurker): 1. Sorting of comments (the "crowd" makes sure the best comments are on top) 2. The OP is active in the comments
They use Discourse. It's built (and probably still led) by Jeff Atwood, who's known for ~~building~~founding StackOverflow with Joel Splosky. Here's the announcement post when discourse was launched He still blogs about the design and code decisions they made regarding the software, which is how I discovered it.
Since it's in active Open source development, you can go to the Discourse Discourse (heh) and suggest improvements and such.
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Was hältst du von Discourse [1]?
Die (Hacker/Nerd/Berlin-Hamburg) Podcastszene um die Metaebene verwendet das in ihrem Sendegate [2], mit einer soliden Begründung (Zitat: Über uns > FAQ)
> Warum dieses sonderbare System, wir haben doch schon XYZ?
> Ganz einfach: Twitter ist zu kurz, ADN zu tot, Skype zu eng, Mailinglisten zu primitiv, Foren zu angestaubt, Facebook zu Zuckerberg, Wikis zu unkommunikativ, GitHub zu nerdig. Dies hier ist - toll. Und es schmeckt nach Tannenwald.
[1] https://www.discourse.org/
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They use Discourse, which uses Ember for the frontend and Ruby on Rails for the backend.
There's not really a good, easy way to integrate Discourse into an app (speaking from experience) - most people just have it on a separate subdomain like the Vue.js team has done.
This looks likes Discourse, is it not? (https://www.discourse.org/)
It's open source (i.e., software itself is free), so self-hosting on, e.g., Digital Ocean, will be quite cost effective.
Why don't you guys use a Software like Discourse? It's maintained by a large community, has a clean and minimalistic design + it's FREE https://www.discourse.org
Many companies like udacity etc use this
Lithium looks to indeed be used.
Looking at the dropbox forum, it sort of reminds me of discourse which is open-source. I'm thinking a module might exist allowing for integrating discourse and drupal, but I'm not sure.
Have a look at Discourse, and don't let the hosted pricing scare you; you can self-host for free. I run one for a small group on a $5 Linode instance with docker no problem.
> I just think it's a little bit easier than traditional forums > > - everything's in real-time, so you don't have to constantly refresh the page when you're in the middle of a group discussion > > - searching's pretty easy > > - the UI is simple, so departments that don't know what vBulletin and IRC stand for (cough, marketing / sales / etc) can still see the benefits with little to no training
I'm thinking about Discourse when reading this because it has the first two points so it would be something comparable but minimalist so simpler?
Will it be also libre/open source?
This happens with every system where moderation is crowd-sourced because you want free labour to remove off-topic content. Especially if it's gameified with points for contribution that can be conjured out of thin air. You get group-think and chilling effects for dissenting opinions every time.
One alternative is the *chan type content where lax moderation significantly increases the noise-floor and general animosity but where the truly thoughtful posts stand out.
I've been watching the Discourse project for some time, hoping they wouldn't make the same mistakes but I predict that even with that system, you're gonna end up with a clique of "forum royalty" who dictate the groupthink and others who will adopt it in order to get in with them.
How do you successfully moderate an online forum in a reasonably unbiased fashion anyway? The only solution I've seen has been having actually impartial moderators who rule with an iron hand and transparent and clear rules for what gets removed and what doesn't. (and no badges or points or votes or any of that nonsense).
What you want is called a forum. Forums are typically dedicated to a single topic and members of the forum normally hold similar views. For that I’d recommend Discourse. Each forum is closed off from each other and members have to actively join them.
The point of Reddit (and other link aggregators) is to give the feeling of small forums but put together into a single feed. This requires that users either see everything the site has to offer or it requires them to tailor their view of the website. To use your example, Reddit currently allows tankies to deny Tiananmen Square and the horrible things Mao’s communists did to the people of China. At the same time simply admitting to voting for Trump could get you banned as a “nazi”. Everybody’s definition of acceptable content is different. Tankies are just as bad as wehrboos, but nobody can be trusted to ban both. The only option is to not need trust and simply allow both (within the confines of the law). Otherwise you might as well stay on Reddit.
> For me, it's not a case of wanting either gone so the other can prosper. It doesn't work like that. If one dies, the other will take the former's role and be worse off for it.
That's my concern with the state of things currently. Everybody is defaulting to discord, even in cases where it makes no sense, because it's what they're familiar with. If all you have is a hammer, and all that. I do anticipate the market reacting to that, but it's a rocky road until we get there.
> (I've never seen a forum that auto-refreshes or such)
The forum I saw that auto-refeshed used a form of Discourse, I believe. It was heavily modified, so I don't know if that behavior came in the original package. But it showed if another user was replying, automatically added new posts at the bottom of the thread, and notified you on the page itself(if you'd scrolled up) and in your alerts(if you'd wandered to a different page) if there were new replies.
Hvis jeg var deg, ville jeg lest meg litt opp rundt det tekniske. Du får mye mer ut av et slikt prosjekt med litt kunnskap.
Et domene fra domeneshop koster fra 15,- i året (120,- i året for et .no domene) og du trenger strengt tatt ikke så veldig mye til hosting med >= 1000 besøkende/hits på nettsiden pr. dag. For 10 dollar i måneden får du en 2gb RAM linode med nok lagringsplass og det kan enkelt skaleres opp hvis det trengs. Wordpress er bare håpløst til å drive en diskusjonsplattform (discourse er gratis og veldig populært nå).
Yes, I've worked on lots of websites. This one was made using Vue.js (https://vuejs.org/) along with CSS from Bootswatch Slate (https://bootswatch.com/slate/). The forum uses Discourse (https://www.discourse.org/).
> A XenForro based forum intended to act as a community hub for the reddit. It will be open to everyone and we will have both instant chat and several catagories, such as an 'Ask and MRA' style subforum.
What about a Discourse instance? It can be useful as it has e-mail settings.
Also, don't forget an "international" session, oriented to specific countries (like the various regional A Voice For Men sites).
While I think this is a solid idea conceptually, I wonder after a couple of things. First and foremost, what's your background, and what would you see your role in making the thing real? Coder, sysadmin, community manager? I ask because the real skill that I think it would take to make this thing work isn't building a prototype or even managing the userbase (at least at first). My sense is that the lion's share of the work is going to be the unglamorous day-to-day commitment to keeping the thing running and secure.
I've flirted with doing this very thing, and my 2¢ would be to first look at existing open-source software for creating and managing communities, and consider whether any of them can be adapted to your needs. Discourse and Hacker News come to mind, but there are tons of highly extensible forum packages as well. Running an actively developed piece of software that's in use elsewhere in production means it's that much more battle-tested, which will let you focus on the more high-level things that you want to accomplish.
Best of luck however you decide to move forward.
In my opinion phpBB-like forums are a bit old fashioned. Personally I like NodeBB forum, which is open source and built on top of NodeJS. You can get the project for free and put it in any server/hosting you want or directly purchase their hosting services and you get everything done. I guess this can be an interesting option if you don't know too much about these topics.
Another good alternative is Discourse, made with Ruby. They also offer a paid plan although looks like they have more restrictions on monthly views, etc.
I'd recommend to try out both options (they have link to their community forums). I personally prefer NodeBB because I've been following the project for a couple of years and looks like they are doing a very good job, although it is not as famous as other alternatives yet.
Yes, I totally agree. I've seen both sides with this election making similar mistakes in discussions. It would be funny/entertaining, if it wasn't that important.
One reason why this gets out of hand so often might be that the voting system only one dimensional: Often I would like to say that I don't agree with the tone, but with the statement. Or vice versa. Or let the other know: I disagree, but I value that you took the time to explain your point of view. Or I would like to edit the post of my discussion partner to fix a simple typo (and let others fix my language mistakes - after all, English is not my mother tongue). Or let others easily contact me and tell me: "Hey, I've read your comment and I agree with you, but you should phrase it in a different way. This sounds more rude / insulting than necessary".
Jeff Atwood tried to fix that with Discourse, but by now it seems not to be wide-spread.
After all, I guess nothing is better than personal discussions.
Yo, quit soliciting. This subreddit isn’t the place to spam your company. Help others out or leave.
To OP: I would recommend using a ready-made solution (e.g. Discourse), and embedding it into Webflow as needed.
> Use some goddamn phpBB forums once in a while.
I haven't looked that stuff up in a while but isn't https://www.discourse.org/ the modern version of a good forum software? Are phpBB and https://www.vbulletin.com/ still doing well?
>television was a nice distraction but not as absorptive as it is today, entertaining technology was just getting its wings (pong, Atari and Intellivison), food tasted better, it was great. I feel sorry for those born after this era, it has really become a shit show.
I had the same shorts and sport socks pulled half way to my knees. The kids in the neighborhood played outside, to stay out of trouble. A hammer and a couple rolls of caps meant it ws going to be a good day.
Today, my grand kids spends all their time playing games on-line and hanging with other lost kids on Discourse. We once had a relationship, now all I do is ask questions when we talk. The answer most of the time is a grunt.
The parents are also lost to the internet and seem to have given up. The kids are now trusting that the answers they get from unidentified people (probably also lost) is the best way to handle issues. Really sad.
do you mean a platform that gives you the features of a single facebook group? or you want multiple groups and user profiles with individual post feeds and shit like facebook has? if the former, you could just use regular modern forum software like discourse (unless you want something federated). facebook groups kind of suck from a moderation/tooling standpoint, so it's not hard to find better self hosted options if the group feature is all you want.
Good old forum using something like Discourse. No need to download anything.
It's the best forum software I've been given to use up to now.
Edit: list of FLOSS forum software.
You could pay $100/month for Discourse which is the silver/gold standard for forums: https://www.discourse.org/
Otherwise you can buy a domain name + pay for hosting + hire a developer to setup the open source offering which is free.
So I've had a look on their pricing page and really it's for anyone with 5 staff or over or want to use cloud hosting.
https://www.discourse.org/pricing
Although I like to reiterate that "cloud" really means nothing if you are hosting your own server/s because cloud hosting is just hosted somewhere that you aren't if that makes sense.
Not sure I answered your question? :/
This is web_design - and you say you are looking to 'create' a web app... so, it's a fine place to ask.
"create" - do you have any experience? Or do you really mean - buy or 'set up' or what?
"students receive mentorship on the fly" (there are TONS of platforms like this) (I mean - what is this we're doing right now?)
"Have been scouring the web for the past couple weeks trying to get a good answer" it's hard to find answers without the right questions. That's why I'm trying to break this down into parts.
"anonymous on both ends without the need for an email address to sign up (for the student)" - the Why here - really matters A LOT. People are super cheap and finicky and prideful (especially in web dev) - so, having system where people get free anonymous help sounds like a read step backward.
"student would go in, create a username/password unique to that site" - then why not use an email?
"have the ability to start a thread/ask a question directly to me" - why? What would you get out of that? Why is it private? What is the point?
Any coding boot camp grad can build you a super unsecured node app that would allow for all of this. That's basically what they teach there. haha.
There's a TON of free options for this - just out of the box. You could just spin up a Slack or Discord server. https://www.discourse.org/ is great.
You could just make a tumblr. Your requirements don't make much sense to me, and the idea seems pretty half-baked.
What are you going to mentor them on? Like - sex stuff? Stuff they will be afraid to put their name on?
I've used Discourse for my courses for many years. I'm a fan. You do need a machine where you can self-host, but setup and upgrades are really simple. Includes its own login system or you can integrate with other services.
I have some student-facing reasons listed here. I haven't tried more recent alternatives like CampusWire, but the UI is way, way better than Piazza. It has a much better markdown editor with live preview. Supports likes and other reactions. Also has a plugin system and a pretty good plugin ecosystem. We're using half a dozen of them at present, including one that we authored that enables runnable code snippets right in the forum. I teach CS1, so it's really cool to be able to respond to a student with a code snippet and say: try it!
That said, it's not Piazza, and lacks a few features that Piazza would claim distinctive but I find unnecessary / annoying. No collaborative answers, but much better support for discussion. (No angry red Piazza "UNRESOLVED FOLLOWUP".) No anonymous just to classmates, but support for full anonymity. Nobody has really ever complained about these differences, other than the "why don't you use Piazza because everyone uses Piazza and I'm used to it?" I get a bit of that. (My response: because you will never see Piazza again after you leave academia, whereas you probably will find yourself on another Discourse site.)
Bonus points: all the data is stored locally, so no need for FERPAnoia, and no need to worry about how "free" alternatives are trying to monetize your students forum activity. Feel free to PM me if you want more details. Oh, and the open-source community surrounding Discourse is also great.
I actually sent them an email volunteering to set up and maintain a Discourse based forum if they would support it with their active involvement, but I got the same answer than u/UsefulLanguage: KVR is the official forum.
> Merci aussi de t'être fait chier à mettre un tableau en markdown !
Sur les forums discourse ça génère automatiquement la mise en forme au bon format en c/c depuis Excel, sinon j'avoue je me serais pas embêté.
How many Ancaps does it take to deploy a discourse instance? One Agorist.
Do yourself a favor /u/JobDestroyer look at the feature set and don't dismiss current software architecture without a good reason. Someone asked me to help with the project, and this is it, for now.
The forum software Discourse has a built in tutorial. When you create a forum account you will get a forum PM titled 'Greetings!' from Discobot. The forum PM will take you through a tutorial of the forum software and you will be given the certificate once you finish. To find your PM(s) click on your user avatar and click the envelope icon.
Absolutely, I would love to see a suite that can actually be lined up and accessible via the internet. We need to show the world that caring about privacy doesn't doom you to bad UX, etc.
However, OP, I would rather there be both self- and paid hosting opportunities. The opportunity to self-host as well as pay (subscribe) is a model that has potential, and unless it's OSS, its privacy is near unknowable. I think Discourse is a good model for monetized, genuinely OSS software.
That sounds more like a module and a complex one at that. I don't think there's a finished product you can use. But perhaps you can implement other types instead.
I'd recommend using https://www.discourse.org/ instead and work with whatever you can to implement that. Its a lot easier than doing it all yourself and its not that bad either. There used to be other solutions (PHPBB, VBulletin) but I feel that these kinda got outdated a few years ago with their sluggish and complex templating.
Totally agree here.
But if I where to forge ahead with a greenfield project that needs content moderation, I would take a look at some open source projects like discourse.org that have put a ton of time and energy into getting this right. Then start to slice off - what could be a version 1, a version 2, a version 3. Have those discussions with your developers because they might be able to incorporate an open source project or a commercial api. Here's an example of discourse, the open source project I mentioned above, integrating a commercial api for spam detection - https://www.discourse.org/plugins/akismet.html
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Alot of people discuss build verses buy, but keep in mind there's a hybrid between. You have open source at your disposal, developers for custom work as well as commercial offerings. Blend those three together to get to the place you need taking your time and resources available into account.
Possibly something like Discourse would work for the private part. We use that over at [forum.privacytools.io](forum.privacytools.io/).
If you're looking for something like Reddit, then perhaps PostMill or an instance of Tildes may be what you want.
I think anonymity is important particularly in regard to mental health. People aren't going to be honest on platforms where they think it might hurt job prospects, be linked back to them in real life etc.
You'll need moderation to keep the toxic trolls out of this space. Perhaps approaching some mental health organizations could help. Matrix is a good real-time chat platform to coordinate with moderation etc.
A lot of people don't like to use Reddit. You should set up a Discourse forum. I did that last year for our users and it was easy, works great and is very low maintenance.
> How is that audience different from the audience that visits privacytools.io?
https://forum.privacytools.io uses Discourse, which effectively encourages civilised discussion.
Parts of Reddit are relatively uncivilized.
From a recent Ars Technica article:
>> … Disagreements over the best approach to web privacy issues have gotten so heated that some players have opted to keep a low profile. …
> I’m not sure it would be wise to have your customers consider wether or not to use your product each time because there is a cost associated with it.
That's a good way of phrasing the problem with that approach.
At the same time, seems there're ways around this problem? Namely by buying Usage in large chunks, so upgrading to a different plan, isn't something one thinks about often, .... instead this could happen only about three times in total (per customer).
Looking at https://www.discourse.org/pricing, they do actually charge for usage — namely page views: 100k monthly page views for $100 —> 500k for $300—> 3M+ for ????. And I've never seen anyone complain about this. However, if they changed their pricing to $0, + $1 per 1k page views — then I suspect people would start complaining, although it'd be a lot *less* expensive.
So, packaging Usage in large chunks, can make the friction problem go away?
Sopivan tilanteen tullen käytämme paljon erilaisia suljetunkin koodin työkaluja – itse esimerkiksi koodailen IntelliJ IDEAlla ja jotkut jostain ihmeen syystä käyttävät jopa Windows- ja OS X -käyttöjärjestelmiä :)
Omalla irc-serverillämme oli pitkä ja rikas historia, mutta kun joku alkoi kokeilla Slackia, porukka vain muutti sinne. Olen itsekin tottunut elämään sen kanssa, vaikka irc-gatewayn sulkeminen harmittikin.
Myös sisäisten nyyssiemme vaihtaminen webbifoorumiin (joka ei tukenut esim follareiden asettamista) oli aikanaan kova takaisku, mutta kun joitakin vuosia sitten saatiin https://www.discourse.org/ ajoon, niin se oli sitten "markup + wysiwyg" -ratkaisunsa kanssa, se sai "Nyyssit takaisin" -kansanliikkeen vaimenemaan merkittävästi.
I feel like the existing forums/reddit/github etc are clogged. No moving space for new users... I would like to see a new forum about bitcoin that I can be part of from the beginning. Extra points for using Discourse forum software.
You can start your own using discourse.
There's also a relatively simple to set up docker image.
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If Reddit will not enforce their standards, or sue people for violating the standards, I see no moral reason to care. (If there were an actual law about this, I’d change my tune).
I personally think it’s not spam because Grey is only posting his content on a subreddit with his name on it, rather than posting links on every subreddit he visits. He’s not promoting aggressively enough to call it spam.
If Reddit disagrees with that assessment, Grey has several options. He could allow other people to post and moderate his subreddit, essentially making it behave similarly to every other fandom subreddit. Or he could make his own forum using software such as Discourse.
Linked to the fact that it seems most forums either go with Discourse or one of the other dedicated forum applications. Drupal can do a forum, but is usually not a great choice.
Discourse
Discourse is my favorite horse in the race. What makes the project stand out for me is:
The Team
Jeff Attwood, Co-Founder of Stackoverflow, started in 2013 with 3 people. They are well over 30 now. The vision is to clean up the old forums and replace it with something modern & intuitive. They also have a long term mindset:
> Discourse is designed for the next 10 years of the Internet, so the minimum browser requirements are high: (from https://www.discourse.org/about)
SEO friendly
Just like Stackoverflow, search engines can easily index these conversations and help other people find these, oftentimes valuable, discussions about a topic.
Business Model
They have a clear business model. They host and support discourse forums and get paid for it. They currently also have VC funds with VC interests, but nothing stands in our way to just host an instance ourselves.
The drawbacks
- it's a centralized model - even if self hosted
- they also track privacy invasive things like IP adresses of user sessions. This would have to be addressed.
Accessible Sign up with an email. Most people know how to do that.
If you're sending out newsletters I would recommend using one of the newsletter platforms out there if not what you're looking for is a "transactional email provider" we use SendGrid and Mailgun for several large and mid-size Discourse communities.
A Discourse forum is the best-of-class for a long-lasting platform, but then you need to find people willing to pay for hosting. Lack of that, reddit is a fine, free alternative. Any platform will require moderation or maintenance.
It's just a bit of a pain to post code snippets on reddit because code needs indented with 4 spaces, but that can be done in your editor. Some sort of code tags would be best. Otherwise a browser bookmarklet could be made to indent the selected text in the textarea.
I agree subreddits are not needed for such a low-volume forum. Topic tags are a good idea but hard to get right - new user's often do not use them or mis-use them and I don't think topic text can be edited can they? I've been in communities that put topic tags in [] which worked fairly well. So a topic might look like: [View/Vid] What's the difference between view and vid? Once a precedence is set most users pick up on it. But maybe that's what "flair" is for?
Also, this sub badly needs a new header graphic.
You can try discourse I think: https://www.discourse.org/
This forum software is really good, its being used by shoryuken.com and retroarch's libretro forum.
If you don't want to pay $100 a month I think you can self host it but that will require some webdev knowledge.
Getting on with my life after the closing of the original board was a grand façade for I have merely been awaiting its return...
p.s. , I'd prefer a dedicated board (maybe Discourse?) , but I imagine it's more of a pain to maintain.
Discourse is a really great, modern forum platform. It's not a WordPress plugin, but you can integrate it with WordPress using the WP Discourse plugin.
You might look at Discourse, it's OSS, maintained frequently, and seems to be pretty solid. It has topics, though. You can set it up so you can subscribe/answer via email too.
> Discourse
What's the difficulty level, as a php guy, if I want to edit files, troubleshoot, or add things on?
The same could be said for wordpress, but I've got a php file open at least once a week tinkering with functions or theme stuff.
edit: gotta admit, this is reaaaally nice, tons of cool features https://www.discourse.org/about/
Die meisten Foren haben sich von der Mentalität und der Software leider seit den 90gern nicht weiterentwickelt.
Von der technischen Seite würde ich mir wünschen, dass sowas wie Discourse sich mehr durchsetzt, die Funktionen sind sensationell.
Leider braucht es halt mehr als PHP und MySQL, weswegen es so wenig verbreitet ist.
What do you want out of it?
Open source/Free? Hosted or no?
Phpbb is the "failsafe" route. There's so god damn many of them out there that there's going to be tons of guides, docs, bug questions and solutions etc etc to help you figure out any little thing you need.
Discourse however is in my opinion the best forum platform out there that I've encountered. It's newish, but still in very active development, and has been pretty well polished and full featured for at least a year. It's NOT a beta product. There's a live trial to get a feel for it, it's free, open source, built on ruby, typically deployed via docker.
Digitalocean has a preconfigured droplet setup for it too. So you just give them some cash and a name for the droplet and you're pretty much ready to rock and roll. The how-to guide is pretty solid as well, and if you're budget conscious you CAN run discourse on a 512MB single core server, you just need a 4GiB Swap file. If you're serving any serious traffic (more than 500 posts an hour/more than 20 active concurrent users at any regular interval) you'll need to upgrade to at least a 1GiB Memory instance.
Their github for source and wiki.
Granted, it's built with ruby, and uses docker, so if you want to do any considerable customizations it helps to know your way around those two.
For PHP, PHPbb is just hard to beat. vBulletin and IPBoard are pretty decent. Django and Flask both have Forum builds, but I don't have experience with them, but they do exist if you want to go the Python route. Honestly need a bit more info to give you a solid recommendation.
How many are you serving? what's the intended purpose? budget? What do you need it to do? How familiar are you with server side development and actually deploying platforms? Language requirements? etc etc.
Before you go to the trouble of setting one up yourself, I run a pretty-quiet forum for articles and communication and I'd be happy to set aside space dedicated to Hurtworld and keep it open/available for folks. I'm running Discourse ( https://www.discourse.org/ ) so it makes for a pretty beautiful system. Shoot me a message if you're interested, I have to run now but I can get started on it tonight.
Nice, da freut man sich :-)
Eine kurze Frage: Bin ich der einzige der seit den 00er (um 2007/08) Jahren nicht mehr aktiv in einem Forum war?
Hab die Technologie als "unpraktisch und zeitraubend" in meinem Gedächtnis abgespeichert (1. Post interessant ... 20 Posts langweilige unreflektierte Diskussion ... ein guter Post) und die einzige halbwegs brauchbare Alternative in letzter Zeit war Discourse [1], dass aber auch fast niemand benutzt.
Well, I found pretty good one, which could even replace reddit. It would be good for start, because there's no separate sections, just categories.
https://www.discourse.org/
This is the link, the best feature of it is that it's got Real-time updates, so you could just leave it open and know if chapter is being released or if someone answered some posts. Mods aren't that hard to find. I'm not saying forum is neccessary, but it would be nice to have it for sure. Here's good example how Discourse forum may look:
https://forums.sekaiproject.com/
So, yeah, think about it.