Xenforo seems decent but it’s proprietary
Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.
Hawke@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Are there good alternatives?
I feel like forums really fell behind the times, with shitty threading systems and awkward text formatting interfaces and the horror that is bbcode.
Meanwhile discord handles image embedding gracefully, with markdown formatting and previews.
What’s the next-gen forum system that’s keeping up with modern times? Is there a part of the fediverse that meets this?
Discourse seems the most modern, but not sure if it is open, let alone federated.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
tfm@europe.pub 2 months ago
It’s fully open source.
It’s still experimental but they are working on it.
meta.discourse.org/t/activitypub-plugin/266794
Hawke@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Awesome. That seems like the way to go then!