There is also a formal leaning towards advice, tutorials, and how-tos. While more experienced developers will still find a home there, it is a great place to learn more about development. Coderwall is another rich and varied community that covers the entire spectrum of web development. It has a specific tips section to help solve problems or learn new things and a ton of resources for newbies and more experienced coders.
The community is mostly helpful and productive and you could learn a lot here. There are specific sections for tips, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, iOS and other subjects while you are completely free to ask or post almost anything to do with development. There are developers and coders in the community but it is mainly around user experience. The membership is practical, helpful, productive and seemingly intent on helping each other out, sharing ideas and driving UX forward in meaningful ways.
There is, of course, lighthearted banter too which helps lighten the day. Designer Hangout is invite-only but you can request an invite on the website. Bytes is more a traditional forum for developers and IT. Bytes is free to join with no invite needed so you will see people from all walks of life and all levels of skills and experience. That contributes to a wide and lively atmosphere. It also means many areas of web development, coding and programming will be discussed at one point or another.
CoffeeCup has a collection of forums across a wide range of topics, including software and web design. This is another traditional forum community but seems lively and has frequent posts from around the world on a variety of subjects.
Subjects range from general chatter to programming languages, responsive design, CSS, Bootstrap and other subjects. The community is a real mix with some very experienced developers down to hobbyists and those considering it as a career. Most of the chat is positive and productive, which is a good sign for an open forum.
Hashnode is our final programming community that you should consider. It differs from many communities as users are actively encouraged to offer opinion-based questions and answers and to share news, ideas and drive the industry forward. Hashnode also has a blogging platform where members can post their own articles and posts and share their knowledge with others.
While inhabited by people at all skill levels, there is a real welcome to newcomers and beginners. This is great to see in an already established programming community. These are only a handful of the programming communities that are there for you to explore.
Each one has its own distinct personality and aims, which attracts certain types of users. This list should be used to get you started. There are hundreds of programming communities out there, and there is absolutely no downside in getting involved in a few of them. If you want to take things further, there are plenty of meetups in person which provide a great opportunity to get out and remind yourself that developers are as helpful and amicable in person as they are passionate and dedicated to the work on their screens.
What about you? If you choose to host with vBulletin, maintenance and forum software upgrades are included and taken care of. Discourse is certainly one of the best free forum software out there. It can also be used with WordPress to turn your website into a forum. Each blog post becomes a forum post. It also works with the Akismet WordPress plugin to moderate spam. Social media integrations such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and others are also represented.
PhpBB is one of the oldest, free forum program options out there. It has all the basic features you need in forum software, including user moderation, private messaging, notifications, the ability to set user permissions, etc. PhpBB has a responsive design. While its basic features may not seem all that special since these should be standard with any forum software, the specific capabilities are quite robust. For example, the private messaging system is about as good as sending an email with whatever provider you use.
You can add attachments, create an address book, create drafts, add attachments, view messages in conversation mode, and more. Simple Machines Forum SMF is an open-source program and has all the features you would expect in the forum software.
It also has an advanced package manager so you can make modifications in a couple of clicks that quickly applies the changes in even large communities. So, you can forget the days when it took hours to apply multiple changes across a large database of forum members.
SMF also supports multiple languages all at the same time. That way, no one needs to feel left out, which is great. XenForo is a self-hosted premium forum software best suited for businesses. Start your day free trial with Mighty Networks. Tribe is an excellent platform suitable for both creators and brand-led communities.
The communities powered by Tribe work beautifully on both web and mobile browsers. You can even convert them into apps PWA. With Tribe Platform you can fully customize your community to reflect your branding. You can even convert components like activity feed, groups, posts, etc. The design is inspired by popular social media sites. That means you create your version of Facebook, Quora, LinkedIn. You can get started with Tribe for free and upgrade to a paid plan for more features.
Discourse is an open-source forum software for discussions. It also comes with a cloud-hosted version. Although the open-source version is free, you need to still pay for hosting and maintenance. The managed hosting option has 3 subscription plans. It gives you k monthly page views, GB of storage, unlimited members, and 15 staff users. Enterprise: This is a custom plan offered to large enterprises. Similar to Discourse, Vanilla Forums also has both the open-source version, and Similar to Discourse, Vanilla Forums also has both the open-source version and managed services paid plans.
Paid plans unlock features not available in the open-source version. Business: This plan offers k monthly page views, 5 staff members, jsConnect SSO, private or public community access, gamification, and more. Enterprise: This plan offers a custom page view plan, custom staff users, enhanced security, uptime SLA, and more. Spectrum allows you to launch a free and public community with a real-time chat-like conversation.
At the same time, unlike messaging apps, the conversations on Spectrum can be discovered by search engines and indexed. This gives you the best of both worlds — threaded discussions and real-time chat. However, communities built on Spectrum are not fully customizable based on your branding.
For example, you cannot host the community under your custom domain. There are other limitations such as lack of SSO, moderation tool, integrations, reporting, and analytics. At this point, Spectrum is a free platform, you can get started with this solution in case of budget constraints. Slack is a popular business messaging and collaboration tool. However, many are also using it for building communities for professionals.
The primary reason for this is a free plan, top-notch usability, and wide distribution of the Slack app.
Just ensure that in the settings you select to turn off comments so as to avoid spam. Read our full WordPress review. Weebly is another online CMS, this time targeted at people with little or no coding experience, by providing easy to use drag and drop tools for creating a website. Weebly also provides the ability for users to create online stores using existing templates to work with their simply website-building framework.
The number of themes available for Weebly is somewhat limited, but the designs are clean and professional-looking, plus there are options to personalize accordingly. Additionally, the themes are responsive, which means they are optimized to work with mobile devices, plus they have in built SEO, analytics, and even a feature for posting ads directly to Facebook. There's a free tier available for basic use, and allows you to get used to the service. However, to use your own domain and get rid of ads, you'll need the Professional plan.
Read our full Weebly review. Webflow is a cloud-based service which has been created specifically to allow people with no coding knowledge to get started with web design. Aside from being truly cross-platform, as it's web-based, Webflow emphasizes the concept of 'smart codelessness'. In the first instance this means a crisp drag and drop interface allowing you to drop elements such as text and images seamlessly onto a page using one of the freely available templates.
Unlike many WYSIWYG editors, the code produced is very clean and well-written even if you choose the 'I have no coding experience' option during setup. You can make granular changes to individual elements using the panels on the right. Webflow offers a free demonstration of its features via the website, and you can also subscribe for a free Starter package which allows you to create up to two projects.
Read our full Webflow review. Bluefish is among the smallest web design tools available today. The tiny installer takes only a few moments to setup. While the interface is text-only, it's clearly designed with novices in mind as it employs clear-cut toolbars, user customizable menus and syntax highlighting.
Bluefish has an excellent search function, allowing you to find text across multiple projects. The tool also has no trouble juggling hundreds of documents at the same time.
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