Categories / Communication - Social Networks and Forums
Discourse
Advanced forum / community solution based on Ruby and JS.
- Website
- https://www.discourse.org/
- Source code
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse
- GitHub stars
- 48,046
- Repository activity
- 2 November 2026
- Latest release
- _gh-attach-assets, 15 July 2026
- Health
- Active From the repository record in this build
- License
- GPL-2.0
- Platforms
- Docker
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