Discourse
Open-source community platform for discussion, chat, and support
Discourse is a self-hosted community platform that combines threaded discussion with built-in chat, search, and moderation tools.
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Open-source community platform for discussion, chat, and support
Discourse is a self-hosted community platform that combines threaded discussion with built-in chat, search, and moderation tools.
Real-time Node.js forum software for online communities
NodeBB is a self-hosted, GPL-3.0 community forum platform built on Node.js with real-time chat, notifications, and federated sharing.
Federated link-aggregation and discussion platform for self-hosted communities
Lemmy is a federated link-aggregation and discussion platform where independent servers interoperate, so a person on one server can subscribe to communities, vote, and comment across any other. It works like a self-governed Reddit: communities host link and text posts with nested comments, votes surface widely endorsed items, and moderators set local rules with site-wide admin controls behind them.
Open-source group chat with servers, voice, and self-hosting
Stoat is a free open-source group chat app for friends and communities, with servers, voice chat, and file sharing, available hosted or as optional self-hosting.
Open-source chat and AI-agent SDKs for web and mobile apps
Ethora is an open-source chat and AI-agent platform with SDKs that add messaging, chatbots, and RAG search to web and mobile apps.