Community Reccos
reddit / selfhosted

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Particular-Meet-5945 · 2023-10-28 18:55

Hey, long time lurker here. Love the love for OSS in the group.

I’ve been through every post in the group and tried them all before
posting here. 🙂

I’m looking for a community software that can serve as a:

1) blog
2) knowledge base
3) Q&A platform
4) forum

in one stack. I’ve explored the following so far:

1) Discourse (loved it, but the UI isn’t too great + doesn’t do a good
job with blogs, Q&A)

2) Forem (the UI is nice and does well with most of the needs, but
doesn’t have too many menu/categories/filtering options by default)

3) SimpleMachines and the likes (great forum software but doesn’t do
the knowledge base well)

Is there any other popular OSS that I’ve missed exploring?

 I quite like Circle.so but don’t feel too confident building the
stack on infra that I don’t own long term.

Thanks for your help.

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thekrautboy · 2023-10-28 20:14

> I’ve been through every post in the group and tried them all before
posting here.



> I’m looking for a community software that can serve as a: 1) blog 2)
knowledge base 3) Q&A platform 4) forum in one stack.

What do you mean by "as one stack"? All of these inside a single
software? Not gonna happen.

You will need to pick and choose, one will be perfect as forum,
another will be perfect for a blog etc.

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Particular-Meet-5945 · 2023-10-30 10:21

Got it. I was hoping that this can be one platform instead of 2-3
working together, as that makes it easier to setup and hand it over to
the marketing team to use.

Thanks for the inputs!

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Trick_Algae5810 · 2023-11-23 19:28

Definitely MyBB or XenForo. MyBB is open, so you’ll find that one most
helpful. Building a simple forum software isn’t really difficult imo.
PHP, MySQL, it’s pretty doable and I built one a while back (lost it)
in a couple days.

There’s always discourse (requires email server), NodeBB and Flarun.
You can really customize all the themes for each software, so I
wouldn’t worry too much about initial look.

You could look at docusaurus for your docs or some good gatsby, vercel
etc. templates

I am currently looking for a similar solution, something a lot like
stackoverflow, except an actual community that’s self hosted. I’m at
the point where in contemplating whether or not I’m just going to
build the software myself.