Looking for free/low cost forums

[Fanatical Meat]

I want to setup a small private forum for I estimate 10 to 20 people. I have close to zero html experience. I want to keep them private simply to avoid spam bots.
Any suggestions?

@ViviTheMage is this something you sell?

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

SMF. Simple Machines Forum.

Home of Open Source Free Forum Community Software

Free Open Source Forum Software

www.simplemachines.org

Easy to install, easy to modify and update, easy to learn.



phpBB is also still out there, but more involved.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

^^^ That all assumes you have a domain name, webhosting account and SQL access.

If not, there are still alternatives, but they have ads.

 

[Scarpozzi]

I want to setup a small private forum for I estimate 10 to 20 people.

Isn't that basically ATOT these days?

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

^^^ Not unless they give us Admin access to tweak and adjust.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

How does Discord work for small private groups? I've never even been to the site.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

How does Discord work for small private groups? I've never even been to the site.

Discord doesn’t work for two of the five I need to join.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

I’m not against paying *some* money, I simple want to keep it month to month because there is a large chance this idea will fail since all below have failed:
email
sms/text becomes too disturbing
Facebook private group
WhatsApp, wha I don’t like FB, I can’t load it on my work device and so on
Some other messaging app, wha I’m not loading an app
Calendy see above

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

I might be able to set up an SMF for you to test.

Everybody that wants to use it would need to register (create account) though.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

I might be able to set up an SMF for you to test.

Everybody that wants to use it would need to register (create account) though.

Huh?

 

[IronWing]

Does YaBB still exist?

 

[IronWing]

Does YaBB still exist?

Seems to still exist. Lots of sites of questionable virtue pop up in the search though.

 

[DigDog]

just make your own subreddit. It takes, what, 30 seconds. And provides you with 90% of the functionality you need.

 

[Red Squirrel]

SMF and PhpBB seem to be the main ones.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Does YaBB still exist?

I think they are now SMF.


Years ago I actually started coding my own, ended up using it as my college TR project, but there was still a lot of work to do on it before I felt it was production worthy then I kinda got side tracked and never finished it. It does not help that I did not know about the concept of OOP or code indentation back then, the code was quite brutal. It's a miracle I got an A for that thing.

 

[KidNiki1]

Discord doesn’t work for two of the five I need to join.

im curious why it wont work for them?

 

[Captante]

im curious why it wont work for them?

Perma-banned?

 

[Fanatical Meat]

im curious why it wont work for them?

I’m still waiting for one to create a password to use discord. Been 24 hours

 

[Fanatical Meat]

I guess I could just setup & log into discord for the. Next meetup

 

[KidNiki1]

Perma-banned?

from all of discord? lol

I guess I could just setup & log into discord for the. Next meetup

i love discord for small meeting places. i belong to several, so i was really wondering if it was an end user thing for them, or something you just didnt want to get into.

 

[dank69]

Isn't this what private subreddits are for?

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Isn't this what private subreddits are for?

One dude is firmly against any form of social media. I suspect he will define Reddit as social media but I could be wrong.

 

[dank69]

One dude is firmly against any form of social media. I suspect he will define Reddit as social media but I could be wrong.

If reddit is social media then so are all forums, lol.

 

[nakedfrog]

Could consider Discourse as well.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Can the displayed username be custom for a privates subreddit?
As in can the name be changed to real life first name for that subreddit?