Announcing Forge — self-hosted community software

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This article was originally published on Rails Designer

Go straight to the site: forge.railsdesigner.com.

Announcing Forge: a minimal, self-hosted community app with channels, threads, and more. Pay once, no monthly fees, and customize everything you need.

Forge is a forum-like (think Slack/Discord) platform to build your paid community. You provide a Stripe payment link, and after payment your new member gets an invite link to your community. It has all the typical community features, like: channel-based organization, threads, user profiles and moderation tools.

It is, of course, built with the latest Rails (including the new rich-text editor Lexxy!) and as vanilla as possible. The only extra gems added are: Courrier, Rails Icons, Perron and Partials FX.

Designed using modern CSS, it uses, for example, one color value to set the theme throughout the app. Like this:

:root {
  color-scheme: light dark;

  --color-value: 40;
  --primary-color: light-dark(oklch(.7 0.18 var(--color-value)), oklch(.65 0.18 var(--color-value)));
/* … */