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Re:High-severity vulnerability in vBulletin is being activel... by commoner on Thursday September 26, 2019 @03:36AM (#21079002)
Any recommendations for forum software, preferably open source?

I'm aware of Discourse and Flarum, which use more modern designs:

https://www.discourse.org

https://flarum.org

phpBB and Simple Machines Forum both use classic designs similar to vBulletin:

https://www.phpbb.com

https://simplemachines.org

What's the best alternative to vBulletin?

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Re:High-severity vulnerability in vBulletin is being activel... by KajMagnus on Thursday September 26, 2019 @07:11PM (#21086633)
Maybe Talkyard could be of interest — a bit like Discourse, but has HackerNews type threaded discussions and a basic Slack like chat: https://www.talkyard.io (I'm developing it).

There are some improvements over HN: https://www.talkyard.io/-32/how-hacker-news-can-be-improved-...

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Re:High-severity vulnerability in vBulletin is being activel... by ukyrgf on Thursday September 26, 2019 @12:06PM (#21082342)
Ooh I hadn't heard of Flarum yet; I'm going to try that one out.

As a user, Discourse forums have always felt bloated and slow. As a developer, I was shocked when I went to their installation documentation and saw it required 1 GB of RAM and 10 GB of disk space.

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Re:High-severity vulnerability in vBulletin is being activel... by torgoguys on Thursday September 26, 2019 @10:33AM (#21081213)
It depends on your criteria, but if you're looking for a well-supported, vBulletin-ish forum (focus on being a forum first-and-foremost, similar visual style, similar extensibility system) then XenForo is a very good candidate. If I didn't have a lot of time invested in my vBulletin setup (customization), I would go with them. For now, vBulletin works for me.
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Re:High-severity vulnerability in vBulletin is being activel... by winger on Thursday September 26, 2019 @03:48AM (#21079047)
As they are vary in different criteria, the best alternative is roll our own forum using CSS Grid.
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