phpBB3 Refugees

[quote="[url=https://www.phpbb3refugees.com/viewtopic.php?p=413#p413]Silver Surfer » Mon Mar 20, 2023 3:15 am[/url]"]A lightweight version of phpBB would be Refugee 2.[/quote]
I think phpBB3 is better though, phpBB2 lacks features most take for granted.

A lightweight version of phpBB would be Refugee 2.

phpBBex has many positive things: it works great with PHP8.0.26 but VEG claims that it would be ready for PHP 8.2 as well;
it has an up-to-date working version of STK and UMIL, a multitude of deselectable options, a responsive style needed to be implemented for me, in fact I put Comboot.

[quote="[url=https://www.phpbb3refugees.com/viewtopic.php?p=410#p410]Silver Surfer » Wed Mar 15, 2023 2:56 pm[/url]"]Silver Surfer alias Brainex :D
PhpBBex Italian translation for VEG![/quote]
I like phpBBex, though I modified the style to restore the original quote button behavior.
As for phpBB 3.0.x as a whole...
Honestly, even though there are a lot of under the hood changes, for the user, the features of all of phpBB3 seem to work in a very similar way. Most forms of advice/support seem to be timeless across all of phpBB3.

Though the old versions do feel lighter.

Silver Surfer alias Brainex :D
PhpBBex Italian translation for VEG!

Short for phpBB Extended, which is a fork of phpBB 3.0.14 to run on modern php and mysql versions: https://phpbbex.com/

Sadly, it's a Russian piece of software, though it has an English version.