Community & forum
Discourse
The modern forum software.
open source self-hostable EU region available Civilized Discourse Construction Kit · USOpen source and free to self-host; the hosted service is a US company with an EU option.
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How you can run it
| Way | Where the data lives | Price basis | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Host it myself | your own server or hardware | free | green — You run it yourself: no data leaves your own infrastructure. |
| Hosted in Europe | region selectable (Europe available) | ≈ €20/mo flat | red — Civilized Discourse Construction Kit is outside Europe, even when the servers are not. |
| Hosted outside Europe | region selectable (Europe available) | ≈ €20/mo flat | red — Hosted outside Europe: your data sits under non-European jurisdiction. |
Facts
| Company / project | Civilized Discourse Construction Kit (US) |
|---|---|
| Licence | GPL-2.0 |
| Self-hosting footprint | 2048 MB RAM · 1 vCPU · 10 GB — small deployment: a household or a team of up to ~20 people |
| Commonly replaces | Discord, Facebook Groups |
| Upstream (awesome-selfhosted-data) | 47,784 stars · updated 2026-09-04 · Docker |
| Provenance | curated, verified 2026-09-04 |
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