# I need a forum software for nomadnet

_Help · started by Tukan on Thu, Sep 24, 2026 11:07 AM_

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## Original post

**Tukan** · Thu, Sep 24, 2026 11:07 AM

Hello,

I need a forum for a nomadnet site. 

I have been looking around and installed 2 different projects to test them :

Topics by fr33n0w https://github.com/fr33n0w/topics

nomadForum by AutumnSpark https://codeberg.org/AutumnSpark1226/nomadForum

None of them worked and both seem unmaintained. 

Has anyone any experience with running a simple forum on nomadnet ? 
Which one do you use ? 

Thanks,
Tukan.

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## Reply 1

**LinuxinaBit** · Thu, Sep 24, 2026 4:09 PM

nomadForum is actually maintained, albeit fairly intermittently.

If you haven't already, I'd try your adding the pip install directory to your system path first, for example on Linux you'd add `export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"` to the bottom of your `~/.profile` file, assuming that pip installs things to `~/.local/bin`, and reboot for good measure (source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62822956/how-to-make-pip-install-to-path-on-linux).

That makes it so programs can actually run scripts installed by `pip`. nomadForum, for example, needs `argon2-cffi`,  `lxmf`, and `RNS` installed in that way.
You can test if it's working by just typing the name of an installed Python program, eg. `lxmf`, into your terminal, and if it runs that means it has successfully been added to your PATH.

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## Reply 2

**Tukan** · Thu, Sep 24, 2026 9:36 PM

Thanks for the python crash course LinuxinaBit. I think this part is handled correctly though.

I'll give it another shot.

Meanwhile someone pointed me to nomadComBoard https://github.com/Nezugi/nomadComBoard

Which, despite being at least partially vibecoded, works first try.

I'll try to compare it with nomadForum if I get it to work and then settle with one of them.

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