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We've compiled a list of 44 free and paid alternatives to Simple Machines Forum. The primary competitors include Discourse, phpBB. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between Simple Machines Forum and Flarum, Vanilla, bbPress. Also you can look at other similar options here: Development Tools.
We've compiled a list of 44 free and paid alternatives to Simple Machines Forum. The primary competitors include Discourse, phpBB. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between Simple Machines Forum and Flarum, Vanilla, bbPress. Also you can look at other similar options here: Development Tools.
Discourse is an open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet.
Since its creation in 2000, phpBB™ has become the most widely used Open Source forum solution.
Flarum is the next-generation forum software that makes online discussion fun.
Vanilla provides a standards-compliant, multi-lingual, theme-able and pluggablecommunity forum...
vBulletin (abbreviated as vB) is a commercial Internet forum software produced by Jelsoft...
NodeBB is next generation forum software. It's powerful, mobile-ready and easy to use.
Simple Machines Forum — SMF in short — is a free, professional grade software package that allows...
Simple Machines Forum — SMF in short — is a free, professional grade software package that allows...
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Simple Machines Forum — SMF in short — is a free, professional grade software package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes.
Its powerful custom made template engine puts you in full control of the lay-out of your message board and with our unique SSI - or Server Side Includes - function you can let your forum and your website interact with each other.
SMF is written in the popular language PHP and uses a MySQL database. It is designed to provide you with all the features you need from a bulletin board while having an absolute minimal impact on the resources of the server. SMF is the next generation of forum software - and best of all it is and will always remain completely free!
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