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Best Docker Forums & Community for self-hosting

The 17 best Docker forums & community you can self-host, ranked by community traction.

Answer

Forums & Community

Modern Q&A platform for building knowledge communities

Replaces Stack Overflow, Confluence

★ 15.6k Easy setup Apache-2.0

Spectrum

Forums & Community

Open-source platform for building online communities

Replaces Discord, Discourse

★ 10.8k Hard setup BSD-3-Clause

Fider

Forums & Community

Open platform for collecting and voting on feedback

Replaces Canny, UserVoice

★ 4.5k Easy setup AGPL-3.0

Commento

Forums & Community

Privacy-friendly embeddable discussion widget

Replaces Disqus, Facebook Comments

★ 3.8k Easy setup MIT

Coral

Forums & Community

Open-source commenting platform for newsrooms

Replaces Disqus, Facebook Comments

★ 2k Medium setup Apache-2.0

Talkyard

Forums & Community

Community forum combining discussion, chat and Q&A

Replaces Discourse, Disqus

★ 1.8k Medium setup AGPL-3.0

Askbot

Forums & Community

Django-based question and answer forum software

Replaces Stack Overflow

★ 1.6k Medium setup GPL-3.0

MyBB

Forums & Community

Free and extensible community forum software

Replaces vBulletin, phpBB

★ 1.2k Easy setup LGPL-3.0

Scoold

Forums & Community

Self-hosted Q&A platform and Stack Overflow alternative

Replaces Stack Overflow

★ 920 Medium setup Apache-2.0

Mouthful

Forums & Community

Lightweight self-hosted commenting engine

Replaces Disqus

★ 774 Easy setup MIT

SMF

Forums & Community

Simple Machines Forum community bulletin board

Replaces vBulletin, phpBB

★ 745 Easy setup BSD-3-Clause

PieFed

Forums & Community

Federated discussion and link aggregation platform

Replaces Reddit

★ 600 Medium setup AGPL-3.0

Discuit

Forums & Community

Open-source community discussion platform

Replaces Reddit

★ 546 Medium setup AGPL-3.0

Lemmy-UI Alternative Photon

Forums & Community

Modern alternative web client for Lemmy instances

Replaces Reddit

★ 542 Easy setup AGPL-3.0

Codidact

Forums & Community

Community-driven Q&A knowledge-sharing platform

Replaces Stack Overflow, Stack Exchange

★ 439 Medium setup AGPL-3.0

Lemmy-Easy-Deploy

Forums & Community

Streamlined deployment scripts for Lemmy

Replaces Reddit

★ 146 Easy setup MIT

Throat

Forums & Community

Self-hosted Reddit-style community platform

Replaces Reddit

★ 77 Medium setup MIT

Every option here is open-source and self-hostable, tagged Docker within the forums & community category. Compare them on the individual app pages for setup difficulty and resource requirements.