Simple forum software for user feedback?

[DenisM]

I want my users and causal surfers to be able to leave feedback, ask questions and chat with me or each other. I need simple forum software and/or hosting that would let people post without registration, see recent posts and search for older posts. I want to minimize management to a point where I simply review comments. I also want to be able to move the forum later on, so I need location transparency (dns cname's), data portability and user account portability.

  Suggestions?


  So far I looked at:

Google groups (registration required) JS-Kit Comments(really nice and lightweight but has no search and no way to collapse threads) PHPBB (rumors have it it's full of security bugs so I don't even want to start worrying about applying security patches on time) vBullitien (seems very complex to setup/customize and also needs to be maintained) getsatisfaction.com (registration required, very loud interface, little portability/transparency)

[thorax]

For quick feedback you can promote to feature requests and votes with a site/widget like our featurelist: http://featurelist.org

http://featurelist.org/info/features

[terpua]

Look at Beast, RoR-based.

http://beast.caboo.se/

[evdawg]

I want to put another plug in there for Vanilla http://getvanilla.com/. Great software!

[nreece]

Vanilla ( http://getvanilla.com/ ), open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual

bbPress ( http://bbpress.org/ ), as simple as it gets, from the creators of WordPress

PunBB ( http://punbb.org/ ), fast and lightweight

[DenisM]

One more idea: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=186884

[DenisM]

Just came across http://disqus.com/ so I'll add it here for future reference.

[jsomers]

you could always hack news.arc:

> http://www.arclanguage.org/install

[dcurtis]

uservoice.com (which was just techcrunched)

[slim]

i use http://getsatisfaction.com

[DenisM]

For anyone still looking, I have settled on wikidot.