In 2014, I migrated the OpenPetra forum from phpBB to Discourse. The reason was that Discourse had a fresh look on the way how forums can be done, it had a nice design, and easy and modern user interface. Here
Creating a test database for Discourse with dummy data
This post is part of the work on a project to migrate a forum from Discourse to Flarum. See the related post here: Migrating a forum from Discourse to Flarum Of course, in your real life scenario, you will have
Migrating Discourse from pkgr packages to Docker installation
Previously, I have used the discourse packages from https://packager.io/gh/pkgr/discourse because that was easy to install and to maintain, just with Ubuntu packages. Unfortunately, those packages have not been updated for a while. Another thing is that I can now run docker within
Migrate phpBB forum to Discourse using the Ubuntu packages from packager.io
So it seems that http://www.discourse.org/ is the new way that forums should work. Discourse uses Ruby on Rails, Redis and Postgresql on the server side. This means it is quite different than the LAMP stack that you might be used to. For