user-forums

phpBB equivalent for Ruby on Rails

I'm looking for Forum software similar to phpBB, but intended to run within a RoR application. I'm looking for a list of sites, along with one recommendation for which one is currently the ideal choice (ease of setup, simplicity, aesthetics). ...

Looking for Attractive Forum to Add to My Application

Looking for an attractive, highly customizable forum plugin to implement. Don't want to build one myself, but don't want to settle for usual crap. Something Ajax-y? Was leaning towards Community Server but would love to see what others had to reccomend. Thanks. EDIT: This is an ASP.NET/C#/SQL application ...

What's the best user forum software?

I'm setting up a niche community web site, I expect it to have a few hundred users to start, probably the maximum would be 1000-2000. Most of my experience has been with the ASP.Net/SQL Server world. I'd like to know which low-cost or free user forum software is best, preferably one that could be fairly easily installed by someone with...

What are the most active Ruby forums/blogs on the web?

I have just spent 2 days with Ruby, and my observation in last two days is that it is very difficult (as compared to say .NET/Java) to find an active forum/blogs which are helpful for Ruby (or maybe I don't know them since I am new). Which are the most common forums/blogs developers visit when they need help with Ruby (other than Stack ...

What are some of the best special-purpose mailing lists / forums for programmers?

In addition to (and prior to) Stack Overflow, there are quite a few special-purpose mailing lists and forums out there for programmers. In my case, there's the Tomcat mailing list (i.e. [email protected]), the mysql mailing list (i.e. [email protected]) and the many forums at java.sun.com. Then there are those used for more ha...

What alternatives are there to forums?

During a conversation about a site (with a forum) I am about to launch, a friend raised the point that Facebook and its ways have more or less killed off forums. Probably "killed off" is too harsh in explaining it, but he did have a point. I have heard many people saying that they would rather go to a Facebook page than visit a differen...