Self-hosted projects tagged “Community”

Discourse is open-source forum software for community discussion, support, and knowledge sharing, with moderation tools, customization, and built-in chat.

GPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Flarum Cloud+11

Lila is the open source server behind lichess.org, providing real-time chess, puzzles, analysis, tournaments, teams, and community features via web and mobile clients.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Chess.com

Lightweight, extensible forum platform built in PHP with a Mithril.js frontend, supporting MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/SQLite and an active extensions ecosystem.

MITActively maintained

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Flarum Cloud+8

Apache Answer is a modern open-source Q&A platform for teams to build knowledge bases, forums, and help centers.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Stack Overflow+9

Apache Answer is an open-source Q&A platform for community forums, help centers, and internal knowledge sharing with tagging, voting, and a plugin system.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Stack Overflow+5

NodeBB is a modern forum platform with real-time discussions, built-in chat, SSO options, plugins, and flexible theming, backed by Redis, MongoDB, or PostgreSQL.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Discourse+14

Habitica is an open-source gamified task manager turning Habits, Dailies, and To-Dos into RPG quests with avatars, gear and social features.

Actively maintained

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Habitica+15

Stoat is an open-source, self-hostable chat platform for communities and teams, offering text channels, permissions, moderation tools, and a web app.

Actively maintained

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Discord+13

Misago is a modern, fast forum application built with Python, Django, and React, featuring moderation tools, permissions, private threads, polls, and API integrations.

GPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Discourse+12

BookWyrm is a federated social network to track reading, write reviews, share quotes, and discover books with communities via ActivityPub federation.

Actively maintained

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Goodreads+5

phpBB is an open-source forum (bulletin board) platform in PHP for building and managing community discussion boards with extensible theming and add-ons.

GPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Discourse+8

Elgg is a modular open source platform for building social networks and collaborative communities with plugin-based extensions.

Actively maintained

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Facebook+12

Open Source Social Network (OSSN) is PHP-based social networking software to build your own community site with profiles, newsfeed, groups, chat, photos, and admin tools.

Actively maintained

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Threads+1

MyBB is a PHP-based, open-source forum platform with plugins, themes, moderation tools, private messaging and multi-database support.

LGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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XenForo Cloud+13

OSEM (Open Source Event Manager) is a web app for managing conferences, including call for papers, scheduling, registration, ticketing, and event splash pages.

MITActively maintained

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pretalx Hosted+14

Open-source feedback collection and changelog tool to centralize user requests, discussions, and product updates from a single dashboard.

AGPL-3.0Likely dormant

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Canny+19

An open-source, fast-paced arena shooter featuring parkour mechanics, multiplayer modes, and a realtime WYSIWYG map editor for cooperative map creation.

Actively maintained

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Quake Champions+4

Adds ActivityPub federation to Nextcloud so users can post, follow, and interact with the fediverse while keeping content on their Nextcloud instance.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Mastodon (mastodon.social)+7

Feedback management and public roadmap platform for collecting, prioritizing and sharing customer requests; supports Docker, Helm/Kubernetes and multiple storage backends.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Canny+6

QPixel is a Ruby on Rails Q&A platform powering Codidact, supporting multiple communities, categories, Markdown content, voting and activity-based privileges.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Stack Overflow+5

Lightweight single-user ActivityPub server using SQLite; supports rich text, Markdown, images, polls, threading, translations and MCP.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Mastodon (mastodon.social)+5

Mbin is a federated content aggregator offering voting, discussion and microblogging via ActivityPub. A community-focused fork of kbin, built with PHP and Symfony.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Reddit+19

A modern forum, wiki, and community hub for discussions, curated lists, and knowledgebases. Extensible, secure platform built with TypeScript and Go.

MPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Discourse+14

Modern self-hosted changelog and roadmap app with voting, emoji reactions, kanban roadmap, themeable public changelog, automated newsletters, and a REST API.

Apache-2.0Slowing down

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Headway+19

BuddyPress is a WordPress plugin that adds member profiles, activity streams, groups, messaging, and extensibility to build community and social networking sites.

Actively maintained

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Reddit+4

Open-source platform to submit, discuss, amend and vote on motions and resolutions; supports speaking lists, roll calls, PDF/CSV exports and SSO integration.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Civica Modern.Gov+9

Atria is an AGPL-3.0 open-source platform for managing hybrid events, sessions, sponsors, and real-time attendee networking with chat and discovery tools.

AGPL-3.0Slowing down

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Whova+16

Web application and API that crowdsources and maps community-supported agriculture (CSA) locations in Germany, Switzerland and Austria; includes admin UI and REST API.

Simple companion web app for book clubs to suggest books, run voting rounds, track reading history, write reviews and integrate with Goodreads.

Actively maintained

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Goodreads+5

OpenOlitor is a multilingual web administration platform for Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and solidarity-based / subscription farming, providing member, subscription and admin tools.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Local Line+10