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Your favorite Forum layout
9 years ago from Chad Pugh, UX & Visual Design, Illustration at VHX
I love a strong community forum, but for years have wished for a design that is exciting or encourages more interactivity. Got any you love?
18 comments
John Manoogian III, 9 years ago (edited 9 years ago ) Discourse is THE BOMB: discourse.org
- Fully live AJAXy happiness
- better looking than any forum
- mobile + tablet optimized from the start
- actually works
#bonuspointsChris Reeves, 9 years ago Discourse doesn't work in the world's most popular browser… IE8.
Taylor Lapeyre, 9 years ago (edited 9 years ago )
I wish that there was a demo.
EDIT: d'oh: http://esotalk.org/forum
Stephen Grace, 9 years ago (edited 9 years ago )
You might be interested to know that the brain behind esoTalk is working on a big evolution from esoTalk, called Flarum. Details are scarce at the moment but I can promise you it's worth your while following along.
Catalin Cimpanu, 9 years ago (edited 9 years ago )
Bah.... Laravel........ I'll pass :))))
Ryan Van Gatten, 9 years ago
I've used it for my Arma 3 clan website and my design business support forum.
Worked great in either cases.
Chad Pugh, 9 years ago
Though the aesthetic is dated, I always thought the QBN.com forums had a unique touch with having tweet-like side comments to forum entries. It enticed small reactions, while keeping the thread focused on the topic.
Example: http://qbn.com/topics/677523/
c kizer, 9 years ago
someone will make a modern version of that. The idea is very cool.
Agusti Fernandez, 9 years ago
Check out NodeBB, and for a good design convoe.com (Is a NodeBB instance)
Evan Cancelliere, 9 years ago
Classic, simple design that has worked for our community for a decade.
Clark Wimberly, 9 years ago
Don't tell them! Then they'll know.
Abhishek Maheshwari, over 5 years ago AnswerCart is the best community solution available. https://www.answercart.com/
- Build in PHP+MySQL
- Auto distribution APIs
- Works with Apps,
- Mobile and tablet optimized.
- Rich media content & advance editor
- Private Messages
Lloyd Wonder, 9 years ago
I'm on a forum that uses XenForo
It's more traditional but way less confusing to the eye as some of the options I've seen here. It's also incredibly extensible.
Sacha Greif, 9 years ago
Not a forum, but: http://telesc.pe
The main advantage is that it's a lot easier to style and customize than more complex apps like Discourse :)
Aryon Hopkins, 9 years ago
I'm actually using Telescope for a local forum-ish site in Burque for designers and developers. I'm having some difficulty starting the styling and customizing process. Is this the best resource?
I'd like to improve the templates to provide better access to elements like the "Markdown supported" found on Designer News (see below).
The invitation process is also confusing for my users as I am not really "inviting" them to the invite only beta site. Any suggestions for that (or would this be better addressed on the Telescope forum)?
In any case I am leaning on the sticky post method for our site for now: news.burque.org.
Other than that telescope is amaze-o-tron!
Very cool! Yes, that's the best resource. The invite process actually just got improved in a recent update, did you check that out?
But yeah, it's probably best to talk about it over on http://meta.telesc.pe :)
Alfonse Surigao, 9 years ago
I think Vanilla Forums is the best forum solution and has a ton of support. The documentation is pretty great as well.
http://vanillaforums.org/ (open source documentation) http://vanillaforums.com/
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