Can try them on a local server

I'm personally leaning towards xenforo because free forum software is extremely insecure. From experience, you get walls of spam and the Devs often don't care.

There isn't much difference afaik when in comes to top free ones like mybb

Or you could try discourse

It has a better more modern ui

And needs very less customization to get to working state

@Indigo I really like the look of mybb

Discourse not so much. It requires you to basically stream it from a core site. If they decide to take it down, you are done.

Does discourse has self hosting option?

Then again, you'd need to be pretty competent to hack Discourse because it's compiled software.

You basically create a clone of it on a cloud server

You could self host discourse even on a local computer

Possibly, but my web connection isn't as stable as I'd like

I meant local hosting it for testing purposes

And then if it satisfies the needs, we can migrate it to the bluehost server.

It is decent enough forum software.

I think it's the easiest to set up

I'm wondering if we need a forum though. Forums are slightly old tech now. I'm wondering if Voats might be a good replacement

Along side the discord server, it might be overkill

Yeh, I support that.

Forums are getting old school

We do actually have a forum on the site, but nobody uses it

On menarehuman.com?

Reddit style software seems to work better.

Yes

It's crappy, but it's there

:p

What software, wpbb

?

It's a plug-in

Let's you use a wordpress account, in theory

Bbpress

Okay, which is the new forum site you have plans for

A divorce based one?

That would be something I host and set up, but I'm not going to run it. I don't have the time.

I do want to help, but I'm never getting married so it's not something I really can help people with

I will do the admin backend stuff

Mybb might be ideal for it

But we do have the discord server, so I'm wondering if we need it

We need to think about it

Limiting it to just divorce might be just too much specialization.