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The skin on asmbb.org does look much better. It wasn't included in the download that I installed. It looks like it's still under development, and perhaps available by request only.
Haven't seen this one before, looks very good on desktop in dark mode. Sad that self-hosted version requires a license.
I think the investment is OK, kinda in the same pricing range as XenForo and vBulletin, but cheaper in the long run, since updates will cost 99$ per year.
That is the main thing I don't like Flarum. They have "only extensions, we don't implement it in the core" mindset and I suspect that after they release 2.0 ton of extensions will break. That's why I recommend waiting for v2 or try something like Waterhole instead.
I always used phpbb it's still updates a lot of extensions and styles
I actually deployed discourse into production some years ago, c.a. 2017, 2018 probably don't remember exactly. Easy install, maintain, backup with docker.
I tested flarum and it was more efficient than discourse, both ram and cpu. But didn't get to deploy it in prod.
AsmBB is really good for lowend VPS, the
AsmBB.orgis on HN for sometime https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38983742How does bbPress compare to the options mentioned so far?
I think www.breezio.com might have a self hosted option.
The criticisms above of Discourse are very fair. But it still does real-time better than anything else self-hosted, if you want real-time post notifications and chat-room. (Invision does have real-time features, but gatekeeps it to their cloud offering). I did a longer post about Discourse here
Man
I mean there still is phpBB https://www.phpbb.com/ and it appears to be still getting updates.
if today start new, which will you choose?
Since someone mentioned Xenforo, I'll recommend his brother, IPB.
https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/
I don't know, because I don't have experience with other engines. I can only judge other engines as a user, not as administrator.
For sure IPB is good, but IPB styles aren't better than Xenforo. Xenforo is taking everything at this moment.
Alternative you also have this (is not common to hear)
https://www.woltlab.com
If you want high customization, addons, high community Xenforo wins.
For free, you have this:
https://www.simplemachines.org/ (SMF, it should be now in 2.1.5 version, but they don't released until now)
https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB
PhpBB is good, MyBB also. But SMF is not so far away. Many mods, many themes.
Years ago I ran IPB and it was ok, but all the add-ons were a pain. I got the impression that if you were a PHP developer, it was a nice developer, but you needed to be a php developer to really use the platform's potential.
@MannDude 's vpsBoard ran on IPB and I think, to use a Steam term, his review was Mixed.