[csw-maintainers] Forum Software

[Trygve Laugstøl]

On 05/25/2011 06:43 PM, Sebastian Kayser wrote:
> * ??hsan Do??an<ihsan at opencsw.org>  wrote:
>> As discussed on the IRC, I'm currently working on a forum for OpenCSW.
>> I've did a test installation of the most recent phpBB version, but I'm
>> not happy with it. Somehow I don't like the software.
>>
>> Does someone has already experience with forum software and can
>> recommend me a good alternative to phpBB?
>
> During winter camp Maciej mentioned Vanilla which seems loosely modelled
> after Stackoverflow [1,2]. From looking at it briefly, it feels more
> like the 21th century than traditional forums. That's only the user side
> though, not the admin perspective.
>
> Sebastian
>
> [1] http://wiki.opencsw.org/wintercamp-2011#toc6
> [2] http://vanillaforums.org/

Another option is Shapado [1] which is more or less a stackexchange[2] 
copy. It's a bit different than traditional forums, but has a very nice 
"community" thing to it.

[1]: http://shapado.com/pages/code.
[2]: http://stackexchange.com, the platform behind stackoverflow.

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Trygve