Creating a site with forum is easy these days. There are many great forums: phpBB and vBulletin being the well known solutions. But … I wanted something different. For a project with a small community of about 10 users I don’t need a super advanced MySQL/PHP forum, but rather something small. Preferably a flat-file storage PHP forum (meaning no MySQL database prerequisite). And those are hard to find these days …
Most of the flat-file forum solutions date back to 2003-2005, and as a result most links are dead ends. I was able find some though. Here’s the list:
- SmartBB (2009 last update, EOL)
- TextFileBB (EOL?)
- MyUPB (2011 Jun last update!)
- NavBoard (2009 Sep)
- miniBB (2010 Nov, still maintained)
… and hope other people can contribute more of them in the comments!
Update 21th of July 2011: while looking for the Dutch language files of MyUPB, I stumbled upon http://www.forummatrix.org – a forum comparison site!
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- My Dutch / NL WordPress Translation contributions: July 2022 - July 27, 2022
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Communities I have been 'hanging out' regularly over the past two decades.
- Nomadlist.com since 2022-04
- Empire.Kred since 2021-07
- Karma-Lab.com since 2019-01
- Invision Community since 2018-05
- Insanely Mac since 2018-02
- eGPU.io since 2017-04
- Tech Inferno since 2016-08
- forum.VestaCP.com since 2016
- WordPress.org since 2015-12
- Couch Surfing since 2014
- BitcoinTalk.org since 2014-03
- Warrior Forum since 2013-07
- Empire Avenue since 2013
forum.OSXLatitude.comsince 2011-08- Envato (i.e. CodeCanyon) since 2011-07
- TripAdvisor since 2010-09
MoneyMakerGroup.comsince 2007-03- HardWare.info since 2003-08
- SynthForum.NL since 2001-11
- gathering.tweakers.net since 2000-11
Note: links go to my profile on those respective sites. Connect with me if you like.
- EarnWithEarnie.io since 2022
- EarnWithEarnie.net since 2018
- BestProfitsTeam.com since 2017
- CycleClubMembers.com since 2015
- BestSTIFORPteam.com 2013-2021
