(12-14-2020, 02:32 PM)tbelldesignco Wrote: I am really interested by what folks have posted so far, nice job everyone. So I come from a background of vBulletin which is not lightweight and rather spendy when you get down the to the nuts and bolts of it all. It is however a really powerful Forum+CMS so if you ever wanted to make an investment look that way. Recently I came across a software created in Python called FlaskBB, which has the most similarities to vBulletin and MyBB.

Here are some of the standout features in my research:
- Easy installation and upgrades
- Easy theme and plugin development
- API Integration into 3rd Party Software (logins, posts etc.)
- Easy hooks to deeply integrate your code

It may not be exactly what you are looking for, but here is the website incase you are: https://flaskbb.org

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.