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Discourse-compatible Antville

Long-running community and weblog hosting platform

Forums & Community ★ 89 stars Hard setup Apache-2.0

Antville is an open-source platform for running community-driven weblogs and discussion sites. It allows multiple sites and collaborative content on a single installation.

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Key features

  • Multi-site weblog hosting
  • Collaborative content
  • Built-in discussion features
  • Runs on the Helma framework

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Released under the Apache-2.0 license
  • Written in JavaScript
  • Lightweight — runs in 512 MB RAM

Trade-offs

  • Very niche project
  • Outdated technology stack

Is Discourse-compatible Antville secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Discourse-compatible Antville's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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