Appreciate all those providing input on this type of layout. It's too bad the site using the grid layout is not using nodebb or else we could probably get the designer to provide some help.
Self-hosted NodeBB
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Yes! Most members use a self-hosted solution instead of one of the plans provided by NodeBB, so far as I know.
You can get started here: https://nodebb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ (Documentation).
And here is the source code: https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/
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@JasperNL
Thanks for your quick answer.I have sold my forum recently that was hosted on IPB. I was so frustrated with it and it is becoming worse with each update... Since I plan to start a new forum I am currently testing Flarum but its development is pretty slow. The only advantage over Discourse is that it can be installed on CentOS 6. If I remember correctly Discourse requirement is CentOS 7..
Today I have found out about nodeBB and those three forums "feel" very similar (Discourse, NodeBB and Flarum), although at first NodeBB seems more advanced.
I will try it for sure..
Thanks!
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NodeBB is the way to go. I use CoreOS with my own Docker packages (NodeBB + MongoDB)
