Any suggestions for hosting a "forum" website?

[Tendon]

Hey I'd like to make a website to help me keep track of all add-ons I know about.  It should include pictures, a brief description, and links to various hosted locations(BLforum, BLGlass, etc.).  It could link to reviews, and there could be a public section for reporting errors or corrections.  It should allow for searching by tags.

For these reasons I would like to use forum software, such as SMF.  Or some sort of manga hosting software. 
Manga sites have excellent searching features.
I would really like to use the manga site style, but I've not been able to find any mention of software for that.  So using SMF is the most realistic option.

But uhm, I don't really know how to get started with this.  Like- do I need to find a database to host this?  Should I just use a free forum hosting website?  Do I need to register my own domain?  I was thinking of asking Pecon if I could use something like: dgmods.block.land | mods.block.land | addons.block.land

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[Snaffle J. Bean]

A database is definitely the underlying technology that would be at work in what you're describing. Unfortunately I know next to nothing about databases in depth but I think a relational database may be what you'd need to implement to accomplish what you're looking to do, so try looking into that type specifically to see if that's actually what you need. MySQL is an open-source relational database management system that you could implement at no cost, so keep it in mind if a relational database turns out to be what you need.