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Top 8 Discourse Open-Source Projects
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forum-dl
Scrape posts, threads from forums, news aggregators, mail archives, export to JSONL, mailbox, WARC
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Project mention: Discord to Start Showing Ads for Gamers to Boost Revenue | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-01> Tell me another platform that is free, has realtime chat, voice and video, has stable service, allows sharing images and other media, with good ownership management... and is open source.
Mattermost: https://mattermost.com/
Rocket.Chat: https://www.rocket.chat/
Nextcloud Talk: https://nextcloud.com/talk/
Self hosting and some assembly required. I've run all of them on cheap VPSes to explore a Slack/Discord replacement, neither was mindblowing but all of them seemed okay (Nextcloud's offering was rather barebones, though).
Audio and video support varies because getting those right is challenging, at best you'd just integrate with something like Jitsi, that one's actually pretty good for meetings and such: https://jitsi.org/ and has a cloud version too: https://meet.jit.si/ (yet people still go for Zoom and it's odd UI/UX choices)
I actually rather liked forums back in the day, but I guess nobody will be setting up that many phpBB instances in the current year, though projects like Discourse also seem promising: https://www.discourse.org/
I don't think many people at all will be leaving Discord, due to how entrenched the platform is (network effect): if you want people to help you with what you're working on, you go where they are, not vice versa.
They seem to have spent a ton of time on their website, why link to the github with no information? https://neonmodem.com/
Project mention: Ask HN: How can I back up an old vBulletin forum without admin access? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-29You can try forum-dl, a forum scraping tool I've been writing for this purpose: https://github.com/mikwielgus/forum-dl
It's single-threaded, alpha-quality software, and still isn't compatible with many forums and themes. But it can export WARCs and may just happen to work for you.
They did add support a short while back: https://github.com/discourse/discourse-activity-pub.
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Discourse projects? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Discourse | 40,478 |
| 2 | awesome-critical-tech-reading-list | 856 |
| 3 | neonmodem | 497 |
| 4 | userscripts | 247 |
| 5 | forum-dl | 59 |
| 6 | discourse-activity-pub | 50 |
| 7 | crowdfunded | 36 |
| 8 | apiscp-webapp-discourse | 1 |
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