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.
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.