Communication Forum mature

Discourse

Name: Discourse
Author: Discourse

Open-source forum platform

43.0K stars Since 2020

Website → GitHub

Self-hosted communication platform with forum, community, q-and-a

License

Apache-2.0

Min RAM

2 GB

Min CPUs

2 cores

Scaling

single_node

Complexity

intermediate

Performance

medium

Self-hostable

✓

K8s native

Offline

Pricing

fully free

Docs quality

good

Vendor lock-in

none

Use cases

✓ Primary: community-forums
✓ Primary: knowledge-base
✓ Primary: customer-support

Replaces / alternatives to

Technical specs

Language

Ruby

API type

REST

Protocols

HTTP

Deployment

docker

Community

GitHub stars 43.0K

Contributors 0

Commit frequency weekly

Plugin ecosystem none

Backing Discourse

Funding open_core

Release

Latest version —

Last release —

Since 2020

Best fit

Team size

smallmediumenterprise

Industries

general