NForum is an open source Bulletin Board System / Discussion Forum engine for .NET. The source code is 100% done in C#, using .NET version 4.5.1.

NForum is a no BS forum engine implementation, including the basic features needed to run a modern day forum, and an easy way of adding your own needed features, without changing the code base.

We're still a very young project, and are not ready for an alpha release just yet.

• Written in C#, on .NET v4.5.1
• Using services, repositories, providers and other well known patterns, to make it easy to replace parts if needed.
• A solution that is not tied to any web server technology (it's just an engine)
• Events (pub/sub) to make it easy to plug new features into the engine
• Entity Framework implementation included for storing elements in a SQL database
• Lucene.NET implementation included for searching
• MIT License

• Unlimited number of categories
• Unlimited number of forums and sub-forums
• Follow/unfollow forums and topics to get notified when a new topic/message is posted
• Forum/Topic tracker to keep track of unread/read forums and topics
• Topic types are: Regular, sticky and announcement
• Topic state includes: Deleted, moved, quarantined and locked
• Reply state includes: Deleted and quarantined

• Run on ASP.NET Core 1.0
• Test the forum with an alternate (document?) data store
• Support cloud/web farm/multi instance hosting
• Optimized for cloud hosting, providers for (Redis?) cache, blob storage, queues for async work, etc.