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CLUSTER FORUM-COMMUNITY-DISCUSSIONS · 9 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-09-04

Forum software and clients

This cluster spans self-hosted forum engines, a minimal PHP forum, a third-party V2EX client, and a Nostr-based decentralized discussion app. The dated history is too thin to read a shape from — only one dated entry exists before the index start, and many members are undated. Traction leaders based on activity are flatbb (4 stars) and bbs1org (2 stars), with cfe at 0 stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

FEB 2022: 1AUG 2026: 1SEP 2026: 5OCT 2026: 2
FEB 2022OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 3 hand-coded · 6 unlabelled

Operator · 4 hobby · 2 indie · 1 open source · 2 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 9 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01bbs1org30★16 dayslivehand-codedhobbyMinimalist PHP forum with full community features, supporting multiple databases and plugins, designed for low-cost deployment.
  2. 02flatbb8★22 dayslivehand-codedindieSelf-hosted forum software that provides categories, topics, tags, notifications, plugins, and multi-language interface for running online community discussions.
  3. 03Transcript0★11 days—hobbySelf-hosted knowledge hub that answers questions across meeting minutes, code repositories, and connected tools like Slack and GitHub with citations.
  4. 04zsxq-caiji0★13 daysliveBrowser extension and local workbench that gathers discussions from a subscription community platform into an editable personal knowledge base with source references.
  5. 05cfe0★1 mo—hobbySelf-hosted community forum engine with threaded topics, moderation, reputation, and pluggable storage.
  6. 06starbox-community0★1 molivehobbySelf-hostable community platform that combines a software library with forum discussions for discovering, downloading, and talking about applications.
  7. 07bhsq-community0★1 molivehand-codedindieWeb community for discovering and sharing software, featuring forums, personal profiles, and administrative tools for content management.
  8. 08V2EX0★11 mostaleliveopen sourceA third-party client for the V2EX forum that provides a clean and feature-rich interface for browsing, posting, and commenting.
  9. 09forumstr0★unknownliveForum application built on the Nostr protocol for decentralized discussions.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.