[tbelldesignco]

This is another great suggestion. FlaskBB looks to be light, but powerful, with a lot of different deployment options, including built-in compatability with Redis, which is very cool for a large community to get it delivered fast. The look and feel of it on the front end is very clean and neat.

On the other hand, it's written in Python which I've worked in very little. The documentation looks very deep and complete but not what I would call "human readable" - it's obviously written by people with a high degree of technical expertise for people with  a high degree of technical expertise. I think if you consider this as an "Easy installation" you must also have a high degree of technical expertise. For myself, I believe several hours of research would be involved before I could attempt to install it. While I'm intrigued I'll put it on the back burner for now.

You should be able to just follow along with the tutorial to get you setup then yeah you'll need to learn a bit of Python to extend everything beyond the initial install. I plan on using this software for a work project as a jumping off point because we need a Medium/Reddit like solution for a project and I feel like this would be great for what we need. I have limited to no python experience BTW and I am ready to jump in heads first lol.