Discourse, Flarum, MyBB, phpBB, Simple Machines Fourm, and NodeBB are what I can find. Any yays or nays? More suggestions? Purpose of self hosting for friends, privately.

  • greyfox@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Probably a terrible idea but have you considered a private Lemmy instance? At the end of the day Lemmy/PieFed/Reddit are just forums with conversation threads and upvotes.

    Lemmy is probably way more of a resource hog than the other various php options but from a usability standpoint if you have a favorite Lemmy mobile app it would work for your private instance as well.

    There appears to be a private instance mode that disables federation.

    • TacoButtPlugOP
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      10 days ago

      I have no idea why I didn’t think of that… and I am serious. Fml.