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  • XenForo is a dominant player in the world of community platforms. I’d like to know about the latest forum and community platforms in the market that are alternative to XenForo?

    I’ll start:

    1. Flarum: I like it a lot. It’s got a nice interface and the UI doesn’t add any cognitive load. It’s smooth and fast. The biggest advantage is that it’s open sourced and you can run it on your own servers.

    2. Discourse: Discourse is open sourced too; and a worthy XenForo alternative. I however don’t like their UI - it has not been updated since ages. But a good software in general.

    3. Simple Machines Forum: This has been under existence for a long time; and I don’t know if it’s still under active development. A lot of large forums in the past were hosted on SMF.

    Would love to know from you.

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  • Rahul Roy

    Member • 13h

    Why did you not mention Jatra as an alternative to XenForo? I think you used to run XenForo in the past. Flarum is good in general; but the moment you install it on a server - it becomes problematic. I have been following their development for the last 2 years. Original developer of Flarum started his own forum software. Anyway, I'll continue the list.

    1. phpBB: You forgot the OG of the forum software. It still powers good amount of forums. But it's lost its charm.
    2. vBulletin: Lost its charm after the original developers left it to build XenForo. I think vBulletin had a great future; but I lost interest in it after seeing sluggish progress on vB5.
    3. Vanilla Forums: They are open source, but controlled by Higher Logic. HL has its own software and I don't think they are focused on building Vanilla. A good software; but lost to corporate wars.
    4. Commune: I think they are looking at AI to power their communities. But the reason I love communities is that it still has real humans.
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