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Discourse

Advanced forum / community solution based on Ruby and JS.

website discourse.org source github.com demo try.discourse.org

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stars: 47,796
commits 3mo: 1,516
last release: _gh-attach-assets2026-07-15
status: active

Stars count attention, not fitness. The release date and the three-month commit count say more about whether anyone is still maintaining this.

No Wellworn verdict has been tested against Discourse yet, so nothing on this page is a recommendation.

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licence: GPL-2.0
platforms: Docker
categories: Communication - Social Networks and Forums

Imported from awesome-selfhosted under CC BY-SA 3.0. Wellworn has not verified it.