phpBB, also known as a “PHP Bulletin Board” is a free and open source flat-forum bulletin board software that provides a space for people to gather and communicate with each other. It is written in PHP and supports many database engines including, MySQL, Oracle Database, SQLite, PostgreSQL, etc. It comes with hundreds of style and image packages that help you to customize your board.
Yes phpBB is really basic compared to some fancier discussion forums, but for many organisations they want something really light weight, light on resources including storage and network traffic, and simple to manage, and phpBB is still quite popular because of that.
See https://www.rosehosting.com/blog/how-to-install-phpbb-on-ubuntu-20-04/
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