Storyden is a self-hosted community and knowledge platform that combines forum discussions with structured curation tools.
It’s designed for people who want to run their own community hub, with facilities for forums, blogs, news posts, directories and knowledge bases, rather than relying on fast-moving chat streams or closed social platforms.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Forum discussions with threads, replies, categories, tags, pinned topics, reactions and collections.
- Library for collaboratively building wikis, directories, catalogs and resource collections.
- Structured page properties, attachments, visibility controls, tags, contributor tracking and review queues.
- Optional AI-assisted organisation, URL importing, metadata handling and summarisation features.
- Self-hosted deployment with Docker or Docker Compose, with support for SQLite or PostgreSQL and filesystem or S3 storage.
Website: github.com/Southclaws/storyden
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Developer: Barnaby Keene
License: Mozilla Public License 2.0
Storyden is written in Go and TypeScript. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn TypeScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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