Any Suggestions for free open source forum platforms?
Just got this from a friend who is trying to set up a forum at their agency
Do you have any suggestions for free open source forum platforms?
Any suggestions?
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Permalink Reply by Joy Green on -
We use Joomla as our content management system - it's very easy to set up and has thousands of extensions including forums. www.joomla.org There are many others out there, including just forum builders but Joomla has a huge user support group, is free, and takes a very short time to install.
Hope this helps
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Permalink Reply by GovLoop on -
Thanks Joy...
And pure forum builders? PhpBB - any others?Also Drupal has forums as well?
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Permalink Reply by Joy Green on
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PhpBB is one of the most used pure forum builders - it has the most integration points with other open source cms tools.
Drupal has forums as well and most likely has a plugin for PhpBB - I'm just not as familiar with the Drupal platform other than knowing that supporters of Drupal say it's more robust than Joomla. It's only downside as far as I can tell is that it takes longer to ramp up with Drupal.
If you're looking for a standalone forum builder, PhpBB is probably your best bet. It's been around for a long time - long enough to get the bugs worked out and has a lot of users.
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Permalink Reply by Kirsten Burgard on -
yep, Drupal does. In fact, it's pretty easy to configure those for use. It's also an optional core feature, so with Drupal, out of the box, you get a Forum (if you want it).
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Permalink Reply by GovLoop on
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Vanilla looks pretty slick - http://vanillaforums.org/
From list - http://www.mkyong.com/featured/top-10-open-source-forums-in-my-coll...
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Permalink Reply by Tim Bonnemann on -
Maybe worth a look: http://www.forummatrix.org (side-by-side comparison of several forum tools).
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Permalink Reply by Jason Hibbets on -
What are your requirements? I might suggest Durpal Commons without knowing much. I used PHPBB in the past, but the spam was uncontrollable and it takes a lot of work. I personally think that forums are about 2005 and it's time to move on. If you could describe the end goal, then we may be able to point you in the right direction with something a little more 2010ish (if you know what I mean).
Jason
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Permalink Reply by Joy Green on
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Jason, That's actually an excellent point (or several points). The end goal is going to determine which tool you are going to need and forums can be a hassle to maintain.
Does anyone know of a good matrix which lists each type of collaboration or communication goal and the tools that match it? even better, which tools are the newer "replacements" for older forms of communication?
I'm guessing the Facebook style of communication is replacing forums?
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Permalink Reply by Jack Horner on -
You may wish to look into Anahita... It's a FOSS/commercial extension to Joomla for social media interaction
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Permalink Reply by GovLoop on
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Further problem definition my friend:
"I am looking for a threaded forum that is Free and Open Source with which i can assign users to multiple groups. I also want the public to be able to get down on this too."
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Permalink Reply by Kyle Adams on -
You might want to try Alfresco, which is the leading open source enterprise content management system. The "Share" collaboration UI has lots of blackboard/discussion forum capabilities.
Here is a link to the Share UI features:
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Permalink Reply by Jason Hibbets on
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I can't believe I just remembered this: http://php.opensourcecms.com/
Enjoy!
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