Rootbuzz AlternativesForum Software & Customer Feedback Managers like Rootbuzz

Rootbuzz is described as 'Hosted Q&A platform (ie your own quora/stackoverflow). It helps you grow and strengthen your community & boost your SEO traffic!' and is a Forum Software in the social & communications category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Rootbuzz, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Linux, Mac and Windows apps. The best Rootbuzz alternative is Discourse. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Discourse or Flarum. Other great sites and apps similar to Rootbuzz are Simple Machines Forum, NodeBB, FluxBB and vBulletin.

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  1. Discourse icon
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    Discourse is an open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet. A modern forum, everything's been redesigned to be easy.

    68 Discourse alternatives

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Ruby
    • JavaScript
    • Cloudron
    • Docker
     
  2. Flarum icon
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    Flarum is free, open-source forum software with a focus on simplicity. You can use Flarum to easily set up a discussion forum for your website. Flarum is developed openly on GitHub.

    53 Flarum alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Apache HTTP Server
    • PHP
     
  3. phpBB icon
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    Since its creation in 2000, phpBB™ has become the most widely used Open Source forum solution. Like its predecessors, phpBB™ 3.2 “Rhea” has an easy to use administration panel and a user friendly installation process, which allows you to have a forum set up in minutes.

    53 phpBB alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
  4. Simple Machines Forum — SMF in short — is a free, professional grade software package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. NodeBB icon
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    A community forum allows you to engage and retain customers, keeping them interested and up-to-date with your latest product or service.

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Sandstorm
    • MongoDB
    • Redis
    • Cloudron
    • Node.JS
     
  6. FluxBB icon
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    FluxBB is a fast, light, user-friendly forum application for your website. FluxBB was designed as a lighter, faster alternative to some of the traditional feature heavy forum applications. It is easy to use and has a proven track record of stability and security making it an...

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  7. vBulletin icon
     20 likes

    vBulletin (abbreviated as vB) is a commercial Internet forum software written in PHP using a MySQL database server.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • PHP
     
  8. Spirit is a modern Python based forum built on top of Django framework.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  9. AsmBB icon
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    AsmBB is high performance web forum software, written entirely in assembly language. It is very lightweight, but provides decent set of features and ultimate performance.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
  10. Thredded icon
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    Feature-rich and lightning fast forums. Works standalone or as a Rails engine. Markdown by default, with plugins for code highlighting, KaTeX math, and BBCode. No JavaScript required. Easy deployment on Heroku or with Ansible.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. YaBB icon
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    YaBB is a free Perl forum (bulletin board) system that has rivaled professional message boards for years. YaBB provides chat for visitors where they can post any time and reply to anyone!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Perl
     
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