Sponge XenForo

This and this. Already on it.

Xenforo is a great forums software, but I think Sponge should be somewhat original. It will take some time to get used to this, but so far I like it.

I do wish that the colour scheme was a bit different. I find some of the text difficult to read. In terms of features I like some of the new features that Discourse is offering.

I am used to XenForo but Discourse looks quite interesting.

Yea, I have to agree with everyone stating that while XenForo is good, I’m personally quite liking this Discourse software. My only wish is that like others have said, it had a dark theme so it would match the rest of my stuff.

This discussion has been done to death over at discourse meta. I think it’s important to note that the Discourse team is addressing criticisms head on rather than ignoring them entirely.

Ruby is far superior in scalability, agility, programmability, etc. when compared to, for example, PHP or C#, but I’m not about to start that discussion.

@riking appears to be an intern for discourse, which means sponge potentially has a lot of sway in the future development of discourse.

There are a couple css issues that crop up when you apply a dark color scheme to discourse. It may have been fixed by now. I’m not sure.

I’m really enjoying Discourse as a whole. Everything seems oddly organised… but I like it.

I actually finished a few weeks ago

this forum is better then the other forums.

This forum software is quite annoying. It’s hard to use for me, very cluttered.

Like few times until now, I need to to draw attention to one important aspect to any discussion you start. Please try to put yourself in shoes of different people/visitors when you are giving a “qualified expert opinion”.

Most of comments here (and in the other similar topics) are basically “I like this one better, other sucks!”.

C’mon guys. If you already have polarized your members about certain questions (like in this case), you should address those questions more seriously. If the usage of basic tools, like forum software, is causing the discomfort to considerable number of people, think if the selection of more traditional solutions might not caused more than “I’m bored; it’s not modern; it’s ugly” reactions. I believe that it is easier to live with something not-exciting than with something hard to use (if at all).

Please remember, a massive numbers of people will only start coming once the project starts delivering. If you get too deep into experimental things which proved to be an obstacle even for more tech savvy people, it will be too late when these masses starts coming for changing anything fundamental.

Just my two cents.

I’ve only brought up IPB if they wanted a more of a social network type forums source, which you can’t pull off with most free forum sources(statuses, music on profiles, etc) without writing out the code yourself and hoping of not breaking it.

MyBB has a lot of great plugins/add-ons but it’s not very easy to work with(I had a lot of issues installing it and once I finally got it setup I found out my host blocked a certain part of PHP so it wasn’t even able to run).

Discourage is fine and I think it can work for now, but for plugin advertisement I don’t think this source will work as well so unless they create a seperate directory(i.e dev.spongepowered.org) & a different setup, it’d be hard to search for plugins.

Just my two cents, thinking about normal users vs lurkers who just want plugins then leave until they need another(like I used to be).

i have an idea do so people can change the theme example They click On themes then its all themes you want to the web!

In defense of PHP, Ruby and PHP are as similar to what you listed as Python and Ruby, and Python and PHP. They all require fast hardware for good performance(not exceptional performance), plus Ruby does not support true multithreading, and PHP requires some multi threading support. Any integrated language will be slow compared to a compiled language so you choose the lesser of two evils for the project and what works best for it. In my opinion i wouldn’t of chose Ruby for the reason of speed(even though this can be debated). Not meaning to start an argument, but I don’t want people to be misled that PHP is a bad language haha.

I don’t really like Discourse…
XenForo would be great, but IPB or vBulletin to.

I love Discourse, it’s the kind of Forum system deserved by the mid 2010s. It feels agile, XenForo in comparison feels old and clunky. My favorite parts of Discourse:

• Live search suggestions

• Add .json to the end of any page and it’ll return the page in JSON format. My user page for example.

• That just like Sponge it’s still in development, who knows what awesome features will be available in a year or two.

Ruby is slow, but it’s hard to be slower than blowing up and reloading the whole environment every time. I see PHP also finally got threading support, but as is usual for PHP, in the absolutely most retarded way imaginable.

I personally don’t like Discourse, mainly because of the actual theme of the forum. I see it too minimalist and white. I feel like the forum isn’t as organised and intuitive as XenForo (e.g Bukkit’s forums) is. It would be great to make a poll of opinions to see wich forum software is prefered. Eventhough, I would not complain if it’s used other alternatives as vBulletin, SMF, for example.

I kinda like Discourse, actually. Besides, it’s free :3

I personally dislike Discourse, it’s hard to “find” topics that you are looking for. It doesn’t feel organized at all compared to a forum board.