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Open-source alternatives to Tribe

4 open-source projects are offered as replacements for Tribe. Discourse is the most starred. Running one yourself trades the subscription for your own hosting and upkeep, so the table below leads with what decides that trade: whether the project is alive, what its licence lets a business do, and whether there is a container command to start from.

4 / 4

Pushed in the last 90 days

0 / 4

With a container command

1 / 4

Permissive licence

Tribe’s own site ↗

Side by side

Open-source alternatives to Tribe
Project	Stars	Activity	Licence	Self-host	Language
Discourse	47,988	Active	Copyleft	○	Ruby
Forem	22,800	Active	Network copyleft	○	Ruby
Flarum	6,759	Active	Permissive	○	PHP
phpBB	2,101	Active	Copyleft	○	PHP

Each one, briefly

Discourse47,988 stars · copyleft · active
A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
Also replaces Circle
Forem22,800 stars · network copyleft · active
For empowering community 🌱
Also replaces Circle
Flarum6,759 stars · permissive · active
Simple forum software for building great communities.
Also replaces Circle
phpBB2,101 stars · copyleft · active
phpBB Development: phpBB is a popular open-source bulletin board written in PHP. This repository also contains the history of version 2.
Also replaces Circle

Where this comes from

Which projects are offered against Tribe comes from opensourcealternative.to, re-read weekly. Every figure in the table is read from the project’s own repository. We have not run these projects, and we hold no price for Tribe. Browse every open-source alternative.