What Software is Behind Gitlab Forums?

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All,

I really love the Gitlab Forums site, can I ask if this is an inhouse developed Gitlab product or a FOSS/COTS product?

Thanks!

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It’s the Discourse forum. It’s open source and was started by Jeff Atwood, same guy who founded Stack Overflow.

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Awesome, thanks for the quick reply!

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Actually are you sure its still open source? If so mind pointing me at the free version their site seems to only have the paid hosted solutions.

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Discourse’s About page at https://www.discourse.org/about carries the information you seek:

License: https://www.discourse.org/about#license (GNU GPLv2)
Source: https://www.discourse.org/about#get-it (discourse/discourse on GitHub)

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I think it is a FOSS/COTS product