AskIH: What Forum software should I use?

by Martin

Hello IH, I am a java developer and I am playing with the idea of creating a community for aspiring junior developers. What would be the easiest/fastest solution to setup a forum? I don't want to reinvent the wheel.

Martin

on June 19, 2019

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Discourse + Docker + DO/EC2 , it's so easy to setup and configure

ctrlaltdylan

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We use Discourse, opted to the hosting managed for us. It works well for us, easy for people to use, moderation tools are great, lots of options when setting up, but we didn't find it too bad and went adjusting things along the way.

It's here if you want to see - https://club.ministryoftesting.com/

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I have used Discourse at a company. It is not super easy to setup, a bit finicky but it seems like the best new option out there.

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  I've made a sort of one-line installer for Discourse, in case anybody is interested:
  
  https://freckles.io/examples/self-hosted#discourse
  and all possible arguments are listed here:
  https://freckles.io/frecklets/community/web/discourse-standalone
  
  It's only for the non-clustered version, and you need to create your VM on AWS, DO, etc. first, manually, and get your ssh key in place. Also, DNS and an email service need to be ready (will automate that too once I find a bit of time). But once you have that, it's only that command and your custom arguments, and a few minutes of waiting...
  
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    That's awesome, thanks
    
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  Thanks, think i will give it a try.
  
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I did some research and heard about discourse and nodeBB but I don't have experience with any of the two

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    Thanks for letting me know, didn't know about sandstorm.io.
    Do you have experience with self hosting forum software?
    
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      Not forum software specifically. Probably just runs on some port that you get nginx to redirect certain paths to. Probably have to set up a database too
      
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  https://www.discourse.org/
  
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    it is the way to go.
    
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