Replace Discourse
Excellent forum software that runs as its own application, with its own accounts your users have to create.
Why teams move off Discourse
Discourse is the best forum software there is, and it runs as its own application with its own accounts — which is why most product forums are empty.
What you give up
A decade of moderation tooling, trust levels and anti-spam work.
This directory says so when an engine only covers part of the job. A replacement that needs a caveat is still worth knowing about — it just should not surprise you in week three.
1 Rails engine that replaces Discourse
Questions
- Is there an open-source alternative to Discourse for Rails?
- Yes — Thredded. It mounts into an application you already run, so there is no second deployment and no second database.
- What do I give up by replacing Discourse?
- A decade of moderation tooling, trust levels and anti-spam work.
- How do I replace Discourse in a Rails app?
- Add thredded to your Gemfile, mount it in config/routes.rb at /forum, and run its migrations. The whole integration is two lines and a migration.
- How much does replacing Discourse save?
- Discourse is priced hosting from $20/mo. The engines here are open source, so the cost becomes the time to mount one and the resources it uses inside your existing application.
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