Coral
Coral is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Social & Forums category, licensed Apache-2.0 and written mainly in TypeScript. It ships a Docker image. It has 2,001 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Sep 4, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
- Social & Forums
- TypeScript
- Apache-2.0
- Docker
- Active
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 2,001
- Forks
- 375
- Open issues
- 52
- Commits, last 12 months
- 98
- Last commit
- Sep 4, 2026
- Latest release
- v9.11.8Jul 7, 2026
- Created
- Oct 31, 2016
- License
- Apache-2.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Sep 4, 2026, 98 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Sep 4, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 98 |
| Latest release | v9.11.8 (Jul 7, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 286 |
| Open issues | 52 |
| Open pull requests | 9 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Oct 31, 2016 |
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About Coral
A better commenting experience from Vox Media.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/coralproject/talk.
Topics
- comments
- comments-widget
- react
- graphql
- nodejs
- javascript
- journalism
- typescript
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Is Coral free and open source?
Yes. Coral is open-source software released under the Apache-2.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Coral with Docker?
Yes. Coral provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Coral?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Coral include Mastodon, Discourse and Flarum.
Is Coral actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Coral was on Sep 4, 2026 with 98 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v9.11.8, published Jul 7, 2026. It had 52 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.