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03-27-2015, 11:58 AM
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Registered: Jan 2012
Location: London, England, UK
Distribution: CentOS 6, CentOS 7
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Lightweight anonymous message board?
Any suggestions for a simple lightweight message board, PHP or Python. Doesn't need to be anything complex, only need be anonymous users no need even for user accounts.
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03-27-2015, 02:22 PM
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Registered: Jan 2011
Location: Abingdon, VA
Distribution: Catalina
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Status.net used to be one of my faves.
Seems they've 'changed' ... https://gnu.io/social/
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03-27-2015, 08:33 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Virginia, USA
Distribution: Slackware, Ubuntu MATE, Mageia, and whatever VMs I happen to be playing with
Posts: 19,986
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My LUG uses phpBB for its forums.
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03-28-2015, 05:28 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Mar 2008
Posts: 22,361
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Wonder if one of the old bulletin boards would work?
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03-28-2015, 08:37 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Virginia, USA
Distribution: Slackware, Ubuntu MATE, Mageia, and whatever VMs I happen to be playing with
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Spitfire still seems to show signs of availability, though I'm not sure what you would run it on, as it was a DOS program.
My favorite was PCBoard. Clark Development imploded in spectacular fashion as the bottom fell out of BBSing in the mid-90s, but there is a PCBoard presence on, of all places, Sourceforge, though it hasn't been updated in a decade.
That brings back memories. At one time, I managed to convince my employer to allow me to run a PCBoard BBS on OS/2 Warp for our department.
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03-28-2015, 09:42 PM
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Member
Registered: Mar 2015
Distribution: Linux Mint
Posts: 634
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FluxBB is a php based forum. You can configure it to permit guest based posts. The admin can track ips though.
It still requires a name when posting, but they can make up whatever.
Last edited by Sefyir; 03-30-2015 at 08:50 AM.
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03-30-2015, 12:17 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2005
Location: Earth bound to Helios
Distribution: Custom
Posts: 2,524
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Same with phpBB. You can make it support only guest based posts. It is updated frequently with bug and security fixes as well as new versions.
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04-24-2015, 05:35 AM
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Registered: Jan 2012
Location: London, England, UK
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sefyir
FluxBB is a php based forum. You can configure it to permit guest based posts. The admin can track ips though.
It still requires a name when posting, but they can make up whatever.
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Some concern about the future of FluxBB, it seems to be getting depricated in favour of something called Flarum.
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