Great forum! The best seen around!

[Cumulus]

Nextcloud has by far the best forum GUI/technology/UX/… I don’t know how to call that.

I guess these are many features integrated from recent techs, anyway:

• Great welcome from the bot that nicely teaches a few tips and makes fun rewards.
• Great French translation.
• Lots of usability, many well thought details.

I hope it’s also used by an active and helpful community…

[chrisc]

In case you didn’t realise, Free software running this forum is released under the GPL and is called Discourse.

[rhua]

What engine the forum is using?

The issue with the old phpbb board that it was not very “modern”. With the fixed categories, bad spam recognition, there was quite some effort by administrators to keep the forum organized. That is easier now, however it tends to be a bit messy. I sometimes find it hard to find things, so when you want to refer to some topic you saw about 3 weeks ago. When you use the tags and the different topics, you get the mess a bit filtered, that can help. But often everything ends up in one box and you h…

Based on a comprehensive review of cloud platforms, it seems that there are no new forum software, so I would like to summarize: The design of Discourse is way better than any of the ones suggested by contributors to the topic above. If you would like to make the design of the forum even better, you could try to post something in Love Nextcloud - a discussion about Forum design. Admittedly, I am one among the silent majority of NCloud users who aren’t serious enough about Discourse, i.e the software running the forum, to offer organized and thoughtful suggestions there yet remain deferential to the traditions of that community.