How would I make a forum, similar to this one?

Crrustyy · June 29, 2020, 8:33am

Many of the developers that use this forum know that it is unique and special, but the other day, I came across a forum that looked so similar to the DevForum:

And that got me thinking that it is possible to make a forum like this one, but how would I do it?

sjr04 · June 29, 2020, 8:35am

Discourse is an open-source forum software. You can choose from 3 plans. The reason they look basically exactly the same as the devforum is because that forum also uses Discourse. This forum isn’t a custom forum from scratch. It is using Discourse.

However this forum is somewhat customized via plugins. You know how your Roblox profile link is attached to your devforum profile? Yeah that is a plugin.

You know how when members post in #platform-feedback and it gets sent to Post Approval? Also a plugin.

You know how you can mark solutions? That is a plugin made by a Discourse staff member. It isn’t a part of Discourse itself but it was implemented.

And you can even make your own!

Crrustyy · June 29, 2020, 8:40am

Ohhhhhhhhh
Ok, I thought this was a custom one haha.

Thanks for the tip!

colbert2677 · June 29, 2020, 11:23am

By the way, our plugins are open source as well if you want to check out the code or look into them for your own Discourse forums. Just take note of the license before interacting with the repository.

buildthomas · June 30, 2020, 7:34am

If you are into engineering:

github.com

discourse/discourse/blob/main/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md

**Set up Discourse in the cloud in under 30 minutes** with zero knowledge of Rails or Linux shell. One example
is [DigitalOcean][do], but these steps will work on any **Docker-compatible** cloud provider or local server. This
walkthrough will go through these in detail:

**[Before you start](#before-you-start)**

1. [Preparing your domain name](#1-preparing-your-domain-name)
2. [Setting up email](#2-setting-up-email)

**[Installation](#installation)**

3. [Create new cloud server](#3-create-new-cloud-server)
4. [Access new cloud server](#4-access-your-cloud-server)
5. [Install Discourse](#5-install-discourse)
6. [Edit Discourse configuration](#6-edit-discourse-configuration)
7. [Start Discourse](#7-start-discourse)
8. [Register new account and become admin](#8-register-new-account-and-become-admin)
9. [Post-install maintenance](#9-post-install-maintenance)
10. [(Optional) Add more Discourse features](#10-optional-add-more-discourse-features)

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iiWxllington · June 30, 2020, 8:35am

The Devforum is Discourse but with plugins. You can hit me up on Stellaris#0001 if you need more help on setting up a forum.

Alternatives to Devforum would be NodeBB, MyBB and so on. MyBB honestly doesn’t look that great, I’d always use Discourse over NodeBB or MyBB. You can get yourself a VPS, or as the Digital Ocean people say, Droplet and install a docker image of Devforum.

EDIT: Go through the link that is in the post above me.