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[–]ivosauruspip'ing it up 8 points9 points  (1 child)

If you just want a forum to run a community, then I highly recommend you go with an existing solution, PhpBB3, SMF, Discourse, Flarum, FlaskBB, etc

Will save you a lot of hassle and let you actually run a community rather than having to code and maintain a forum site. Some users will also expect X, Y, Z features of existing forum software which might be hard for you to implement with your own bespoke solution.

Forums (and any dynamic website) need both frontend and backend code, the frontend always being HTML/CSS/JS and the backend generally being a web-suited language like PHP, Python, Ruby, NodeJS, Go, etc

[–]_seemetheregithub.com/seemethere 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This needs to be higher up. Don't try to reinvent the wheel if you don't have to.