Spectrum
Open-source platform for building online communities
Spectrum is an open-source platform for creating powerful online communities with threaded conversations and channels. It blends the immediacy of chat with the durability of forum-style threads.
Key features
- Threaded conversations
- Community channels
- Real-time updates
- Public and private spaces
Strengths
- Released under the BSD-3-Clause license
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Mature project with 10.8k GitHub stars
- Written in JavaScript
Spectrum replaces
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