Discourse
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Advanced forum / community solution based on Ruby and JS.
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Discourse is the 100% open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet. Use it as a:
To learn more about the philosophy and goals of the project, visit discourse.org.
Browse lots more notable Discourse instances.
To get your environment setup, follow the community setup guide for your operating system.
If you're familiar with how Rails works and are comfortable setting up your own environment, you can also try out the Discourse Advanced Developer Guide, which is aimed primarily at Ubuntu and macOS environments.
Before you get started, ensure you have the following minimum versions: Ruby 3.1+, PostgreSQL 13, Redis 7. If you're having trouble, please see our TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDE first!
If you want to set up a Discourse forum for production use, see our Discourse Install Guide.
If you're looking for business class hosting, see discourse.org/buy.
Discourse is built for the next 10 years of the Internet, so our requirements are high.
Discourse supports the latest, stable releases of all major browsers and platforms:
| Browsers | Tablets | Phones |
|---|---|---|
| Apple Safari | iPadOS | iOS |
| Google Chrome | Android | Android |
| Microsoft Edge | ||
| Mozilla Firefox |
Additionally, we aim to support Safari on iOS 15.7+.
Plus lots of Ruby Gems, a complete list of which is at /main/Gemfile.
Discourse is 100% free and open source. We encourage and support an active, healthy community that accepts contributions from the public – including you!
Before contributing to Discourse:
We look forward to seeing your pull requests!
We take security very seriously at Discourse; all our code is 100% open source and peer reviewed. Please read our security guide for an overview of security measures in Discourse, or if you wish to report a security issue.
The original Discourse code contributors can be found in AUTHORS.MD. For a complete list of the many individuals that contributed to the design and implementation of Discourse, please refer to the official Discourse blog and GitHub's list of contributors.
Copyright 2014 - 2023 Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 2.0 (or later); you may not use this work except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License in the LICENSE file, or at:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
Discourse logo and “Discourse Forum” ®, Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc.
To guide our ongoing effort to build accessible software we follow the W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). If you'd like to report an accessibility issue that makes it difficult for you to use Discourse, email accessibility@discourse.org. For more information visit discourse.org/accessibility.
Discourse is built with love, Internet style.
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