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Self hosting a very light weight forum(software recommendations)

Hacker News Discourse
  1. Hacker News is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship. It is run by Paul Graham's investment fund and startup incubator, Y Combinator.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Social Networks #Social News #Startups 498 social mentions

  2. Discourse is an open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Paid
    • Free Trial
    • $100.0 / Monthly
    As these things go, "light weight" is always in the eye of the beholder... But I've been running discourse (discourse.org) pretty well for family forums / etc . It claims to need 64 bit OS, 10G space and 1G ram and 1 - 2 cores. I'm running it on a 4G ram, 4 core VM without issue.

    #Forums #Forums And Forum Software #Community Platform 23 social mentions

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