Vanilla – Open Source Web Forum
Working with a web forum can be a dreadful task. Setting up categories, permissions, and public/password posts can hurt. Trying to attract users to your forum is hard enough, why should setting up the forum be the same? Replace those fears with a scoop of Vanilla.
Vanilla is an open source web forum that aims (and hits) to be standards compliant, multi-lingual, extensible.
Administrators can create sticky posts, locked posts, categories, and all the things you would expect from a web forum. Users can create and reply to topics as well as subscribe via RSS. Default view lets you see all active topics. If you want just a specific category, just click on the category name and you’ll see just the discussions within that category.
When they say that Vanilla is “Fully Extensible”, they’re not kidding. They have a whole barnyard of add-ons including extensions, themes, styles, and languages. Want to integrate with Wordpress? The creators have put together a have a step-by-step guide here.
Vanilla is a great open source web forum keen on standards and a gleeming of simplicity.
4 Responses to Vanilla – Open Source Web Forum
For those impatient to peek at Vanilla, the web address is: http://getvanilla.com/
I guess the ‘demo’ would be their own forum, which can be viewed at: http://lussumo.com/community/
Different to most of the ‘popular’ BBoards out there but clean and simple to use (from an end user perspective anyway). Would like to use this in a project, given the chance.
Grant @ BTP
8/31/2008 at 5:12 am
http://getvanilla.com/
Christofer
8/31/2008 at 8:08 am
If 37Signals did web forums it would probably look like this.
martin Beeby
9/1/2008 at 12:49 pm
this is cool, nice app. i love vbulletin for a long time and so is simple machine and now comes the vanilla i had to give it a try.
insic
9/2/2008 at 4:54 am