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Ramesh Narayanan has been customizing Vanilla Forums for over 5 years:
Ramesh(at)exoboosters.tech
Now Ramesh is launching Chocolate Forums, a fork to continue work on Vanilla Forums. In January, '25, HigherLogic.com stopped supporting the free version of Vanilla Forums and removed the repository of the free version of Vanilla from GitHub. Fortunately a former Dev, Lincoln saved the repository & posted it for Download. Lincoln also patched Free Vanilla to be compatible with PHP 8 here: https://github.com/prosembler/vanilla

Let's start with Lincoln's Repository and take the new "Chocolate Forums" into 2027