Hey, long time lurker here. Love the love for OSS in the group.

I’ve been through every post in the group and tried them all before posting here. 🙂

I’m looking for a community software that can serve as a:

  1. blog
  2. knowledge base
  3. Q&A platform
  4. forum

in one stack. I’ve explored the following so far:

  1. Discourse (loved it, but the UI isn’t too great + doesn’t do a good job with blogs, Q&A)

  2. Forem (the UI is nice and does well with most of the needs, but doesn’t have too many menu/categories/filtering options by default)

  3. SimpleMachines and the likes (great forum software but doesn’t do the knowledge base well)

Is there any other popular OSS that I’ve missed exploring?

I quite like Circle.so but don’t feel too confident building the stack on infra that I don’t own long term.

Thanks for your help.

  • Trick_Algae5810@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Definitely MyBB or XenForo. MyBB is open, so you’ll find that one most helpful. Building a simple forum software isn’t really difficult imo. PHP, MySQL, it’s pretty doable and I built one a while back (lost it) in a couple days.

    There’s always discourse (requires email server), NodeBB and Flarun. You can really customize all the themes for each software, so I wouldn’t worry too much about initial look.

    You could look at docusaurus for your docs or some good gatsby, vercel etc. templates

    I am currently looking for a similar solution, something a lot like stackoverflow, except an actual community that’s self hosted. I’m at the point where in contemplating whether or not I’m just going to build the software myself.