Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Way To Add Forums To a Website?

[Rigel Kentaurus]

It's been a while since I have seen somebody asking on slashdot for recommendations on forums. Usually people there are hardcore and only ask about hardware, server configurations ... or the worst environment.

Comments are awesome, too.

http://ask.slashdot.org/story/12/11...at-is-the-best-way-to-add-forums-to-a-website

 

[LPH]

Interesting discussion and ideas. Hidden in one was a link for forummatrix.org. I'd never seen that site before but the comparison table is a cool way to do a side-by-side comparison.

 

[James]

The xenforo needs updating on forummatrix to include the plugins! Great site though.

Nice to see ask slashdot having more awareness around forums.

 

[Rigel Kentaurus]

And sadly, not even a single mention of XenForo
I really wonder if it is doomed to be left in the irrelevance, the archive of "good ideas" of projects to be.

Operating a forum with XenForo kind of gives it a nice hipster feeling, though. "I had that UI in my forum, alerts and other goodies before it was cool"

 

[craigiri]

I enjoy the "forums are dead anyway" type of meme which has been reported for years and years and years. Meantime, our forums get more traffic each year and it threatens to be the only part of my site that people use!