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Who knows? There might be use case still!

I am looking into Flarum as a possible alternative but if Vanilla ends up working under PHP 8 then tlit gets my vote (have a large forum I'd like to migrate, the only thing stopping me is PHP 7.4's upcoming end of life in less than a month

Started using Vanilla since 2010 and till now I think my version is still on an old 2.4 version. Sad, there is a popular saying in my country "There's no forever". Quite difficult to move as I'm also considering my google ranking. Question now for me is... should I shift to a different platform like Flarum? but i heard SEO Sucks as it's a javascript generated engine, so Is it really worth moving to? Plus the fact that Forum in general is dying. Thanks to Facebook groups 😡. Perhaps if Facebook group dies then internet forums might come back (again there is no forever).

Hey, I am just looking into this now for my forum ozvolvo.org, I will give nitro-porter a go!

Interesting observation .....

I have gone ahead and built a release for each build from 2022.014 through to 2022.021 (after finally working out how to setup a functional development environment, which was a challenge!)

2022.014/015/016/017/018/019 all work without issue.

2022.020 and 2022.021 (both my own compiled version + the build posted above) only display a blank page on the Admin Dashboard - the main forums load, just no Dashboard access? This is in the same development environment that the previous builds up to 2022.019 worked fine on, with no changes.

In regards to PHP 8 unfortunately even 2022.019 still doesn't work with it - in my somewhat limited abilities to work out why it stems from the following deprecated function which is still used in the vendor/vanilla/garden-container/src/Container.php file (and probably elsewhere?)

https://www.php.net/manual/en/reflectionparameter.getclass.php

I wish for PHP 8 support :)

@serdo21: Try this version or wait a few days to see if @Bleistivt makes the core work with PHP 8.0.

https://open.vanillaforums.com/discussion/comment/264575/#Comment_264575

Where do we go? Well, I don't have a community, I was just someone who was learning PHP by working on an open source project. But if somebody asks me "What forum script should I use?" or "What should I do with my Vanilla forum?" I'd say "Try Flarum or MyBB, but for Flarum you will need at least a basic understanding of software development and some Linux skills."

Flarum has the Nitro Porter and MyBB has a "merge system" which supports Vanilla, but I do not know how well that works.