Forem
Forums & CommunityOpen source community platform behind DEV
Replaces Discourse, Reddit
Best PostgreSQL Forums & Community for self-hosting
The 10 best PostgreSQL forums & community you can self-host, ranked by community traction.
Answer
Forums & CommunityModern Q&A platform for building knowledge communities
Replaces Stack Overflow, Confluence
Fider
Forums & CommunityOpen platform for collecting and voting on feedback
Replaces Canny, UserVoice
Commento
Forums & CommunityPrivacy-friendly embeddable discussion widget
Replaces Disqus, Facebook Comments
Talkyard
Forums & CommunityCommunity forum combining discussion, chat and Q&A
Replaces Discourse, Disqus
Askbot
Forums & CommunityDjango-based question and answer forum software
Replaces Stack Overflow
Tildes
Forums & CommunityNon-profit community discussion platform
Replaces Reddit
PieFed
Forums & CommunityFederated discussion and link aggregation platform
Replaces Reddit
Codidact
Forums & CommunityCommunity-driven Q&A knowledge-sharing platform
Replaces Stack Overflow, Stack Exchange
Throat
Forums & CommunitySelf-hosted Reddit-style community platform
Replaces Reddit
No apps match these filters.
At a glance
| App | Deploy effort | Difficulty | Min. RAM | License | ★ Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forem | Under-an-hour setup | Hard | 2,048 MB | AGPL-3.0 | 22,796 |
| Answer | ≈5-minute setup | Easy | 512 MB | Apache-2.0 | 15,692 |
| Fider | Under-an-hour setup | Easy | 256 MB | AGPL-3.0 | 4,578 |
| Commento | Under-an-hour setup | Easy | 128 MB | MIT | 3,778 |
| Talkyard | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 2,048 MB | AGPL-3.0 | 1,813 |
| Askbot | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 512 MB | GPL-3.0 | 1,567 |
| Tildes | Read-the-docs project | Hard | 1,024 MB | AGPL-3.0 | 1,000 |
| PieFed | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 1,024 MB | AGPL-3.0 | 600 |
| Codidact | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 1,024 MB | AGPL-3.0 | 444 |
| Throat | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 512 MB | MIT | 78 |
Quick picks
- Most adopted: Forem (22,796 GitHub stars).
- Lightest footprint: Commento (from 128 MB RAM, against 2,048 MB for the heaviest here).
- Fastest to deploy: Answer (verified single-container compose).
- Licensing: 6 of 10 use AGPL-3.0; check the rest individually if you plan to modify and redistribute.
Every option here is open-source and self-hostable, tagged PostgreSQL within the forums & community category. Deploy effort is graded from published container recipes, not vendor claims — see the methodology.