Running phpBB on some crappy shared hosting. Well, these days on some crappy VPS.

I'm being completely serious, but what is the current fav open source forum software these days? I'd love to host a forum for a small community I'm involved in. Not a stranger to hosting other things across a variety of stacks, so I'm not particular about technology used.

Every single forum I see now is using this:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse

Seems to work okay in general. I'm not a big fan of the gamified notification system it seems to have - whenever I sign up for an instance, it'll send me things like "Super reader achievement unlocked! You read 10 threads." or whatever. I suppose it can be turned off since it's OSS.

Thanks, I'll have to look into it too, though the gamification sounds annoying AF.

I hate the scrollbar hijacking and lazy loading on larger threads.

I just want pagination and to use my stock browser features...

You could take a look at https://nodebb.org/

Thanks, I'll check it out :)

At least this would make FAQs and other important bits of information available to non-users and search engines.