Communication Software for Self-Hosted
vBulletin
vBulletin is a powerful commercial forum software written in PHP. The software is built to be easily extended through plguins and customized with themes. vBulletin is used to power many of the largest forum, communities and social site across the web. Over 100,000 sites are currenty powered by vBulletin.
LayerBB
LayerBB is a small yet feature rich, free and open-source community software written in PHP. LayerBB enables you to quickly and easily start your own community while providing great flexibility and customisability.
JomSocial
With JomSocial you can quickly setup a social network for your Joomla-powered website. The extension is built to be friendly to both developers and regular Joomla users. Features you have come to expect from a social network such as activity streams, comments, featured posts, hashtags, mentions, video shares, photo shares, location shares, moods, polls and more, is all included in the JomSocial extension for Joomla. Currently over 180,000 communities globally use JomSocial to power their social network.
GNU social
GNU social connects you to a free network of thousands of communities that discuss daily on a variety of topics, each being part of the whole. GNU social supports both single-user and community modes and can be used in an intranet environment or as part of the wider open network. The free and open source microblogging server is written in PHP and built on-top of the OStatus standard for inter-operation between installations.
WP Symposium Pro
WP Symposium Pro is a social network plugin for WordPress. With WP Symposium Pro, WordPress-powered sites can handle user profiles, unlimited forums, groups, private messaging, images, galleries, and integrate with third party services such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and more.
Mattermost
Mattermost is an open-source, self-hostable enterprise team collaboration and messaging application. The software can be deployed to on-premis or to cloud instances. Mattermost is designed for internal use within organizations and businesses in financial services, government, healthcare, remote work, and enterprise DevOps, where teams use Mattermost to power collaboration at every stage of the DevOps lifecycle.
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