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Misago – modern forum application

Misago is a modern forum application designed for building responsive online communities.

It provides a broad set of forum features, including user accounts, categories, threaded discussions, moderation, permissions, private threads, polls, attachments, read tracking, and integration options. The project is written mainly in Python and uses Django with a React-based frontend.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

  • Supports user registration, avatars, profile editing, account options, and password reset.
  • Offers sign-in through Facebook, Google, GitHub, Steam, Blizzard.net, and many other OAuth providers.
  • Lets administrators create categories with unlimited subcategories.
  • Includes moderation tools for editing, moving, hiding, approving, deleting, or closing user content.
  • Provides permissions, bans, private threads, polls, attachments, read tracking, and basic Q&A functionality.

Website: github.com/rafalp/Misago
Support:
Developer: Rafał Pitoń
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

Misago in action
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Misago is written in Python and JavaScript. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn JavaScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.


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