Self Hosted Private Forums?

Submitted ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨selfhosting@slrpnk.net⁩

Discourse, Flarum, MyBB, phpBB, Simple Machines Fourm, and NodeBB are what I can find. Any yays or nays? More suggestions? Purpose of self hosting for friends, privately.

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greyfox@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Probably a terrible idea but have you considered a private Lemmy instance? At the end of the day Lemmy/PieFed/Reddit are just forums with conversation threads and upvotes.

Lemmy is probably way more of a resource hog than the other various php options but from a usability standpoint if you have a favorite Lemmy mobile app it would work for your private instance as well.

There appears to be a private instance mode that disables federation.

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- TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I have no idea why I didn’t think of that… and I am serious. Fml.
  
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poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
cblgh.org/cerca/

Is a super lightweight one.

But Flarum is generally lightweight too.

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- TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Thanks. It’s a pretty interface too.
  
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