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Spectrum

Open-source platform for building online communities

Forums & Community Archived ★ 10.8k stars Hard setup BSD-3-Clause

This project is archived. Upstream development has stopped, so expect no new features or security fixes. Consider an actively maintained forums & community alternative.

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.

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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

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