Spectrum
Forums & CommunityOpen-source platform for building online communities
Replaces Discord, Discourse
Best Real-Time Forums & Community for self-hosting
The 10 best Real-Time forums & community you can self-host, ranked by community traction.
Lobsters
Forums & CommunityComputing-focused link aggregation and discussion site
Replaces Reddit, Hacker News
Coral
Forums & CommunityOpen-source commenting platform for newsrooms
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
Lemmy-UI Alternative Photon
Forums & CommunityModern alternative web client for Lemmy instances
Replaces Reddit
Shapado
Forums & CommunityOpen-source question and answer community software
Replaces Stack Overflow, Quora
Codidact
Forums & CommunityCommunity-driven Q&A knowledge-sharing platform
Replaces Stack Overflow, Stack Exchange
phpBB mChat
Forums & CommunityShoutbox extension for phpBB forums
Replaces vBulletin chatbox
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Every option here is open-source and self-hostable, tagged Real-Time within the forums & community category. Compare them on the individual app pages for setup difficulty and resource requirements.