Tools & Software

A 2026 shortlist of forum software — XenForo, Invision Community, Discourse, Flarum, phpBB, and MyBB — by j…

PHP 8.x, MariaDB/MySQL, Redis, XFES-only Elasticsearch, HTTPS, offsite backups, object storage, LiteSpeed+L…

Figma, Photopea, Affinity, and Canva as tool classes for the files a forum actually needs — mark, share car…

Registration approval, the XenForo spam cleaner, CleanTalk, Spaminator, Discourse watched words, the review…

XenForo Statistics and metrics, a GA4 Measurement ID, the Discourse admin dashboard, Plausible, and Matomo…

A 2026 overview of the tool classes a forum admin keeps on the desk — ACP daily surfaces, uptime, notes, a…