Is there a new and interesting open source forum library?

Question

There was php BB in the early 2000s, which still seems to be active (but very dated).Discourse is nice, but it's certainly in the stable phase now.Is there anything new/interesting happening in the open source forum software space?I'm mostly asking out of general curiosity to see what's breaking new ground.

networked · Accepted Answer

Since 2018 the distributed version control system Fossil has a forum built into it. The forum content is cloned with the repository just like the code and the issues. Fossil's own forum serves as a demo: https://fossil-scm.org/forum/forummain.

krapp · Answer

Unfortunately independent forums have more or less died thanks to social media. Even most new forums seem to be offered strictly as services rather than hostable code.
It's not new but if you want to dig into Arc Lisp you might consider contributing to or forking Anarki[0], the public fork of the software running HN.
[0]https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki

pkrotich · Answer

Not sure if it meets your "interesting" criteria but I like https://flarum.org

type0 · Answer

Talkyard (written in Scala) https://github.com/debiki/talkyardMisago (Django based) https://github.com/rafalp/Misago/

unicornporn · Answer

I remeber Vanilla being quite nice. MyBB is much lighter than phpBB and can also use sqlite.