Discourse

Advanced forum / community solution based on Ruby and JS.

Active Last commit · 10+ releases in the past year · 7,240 commits in the past 12 months

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At a glance

GitHub stars
48.1k
Forks
9.1k
Open issues & PRs
311
Last commit
2026-11-10
Latest release
_gh-attach-assets
2026-07-15
Commits (12 mo)
7.2k
Releases (12 mo)
10+
License
GPL-2.0
Language / platform
Docker

Maintenance health: Active

Last commit within the past 90 days. Last commit · 10+ releases in the past year · 7,240 commits in the past 12 months.

How we label health: Active = last commit within 90 days, Maintained = within 12 months, Slowing = 12–24 months, Stale = over 24 months, Archived = read-only repository, Unknown = no data. Activity data from the GitHub API; release counts from the GitHub releases feed (includes pre-releases).

Run Discourse yourself

  • RAM: ~2 GB server (1 vCPU), including postgres
  • Docker: yes — image discourse/discourse on Docker Hub (175.5k pulls)
  • Storage: plan disk for your data (media/files grow fast); attach a volume or use object storage.
  • federated servers grow with followers and media

Estimated monthly server cost

ProviderPlan size~ USD / month
Vultr2 GB$10Deploy →
DigitalOcean2 GB$12Deploy →
Akamai (Linode)2 GB$12Deploy →

Rough estimate from the app's stack and category, not a benchmark. Several light apps can share one server. Some hosting links may be affiliate links. We may earn a commission at no extra cost to you; it never affects which apps we list.

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