Talkyard
Talkyard is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Social & Forums category, licensed AGPL-3.0 and written mainly in TypeScript. It ships a Docker image. It has 1,813 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Jul 13, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
- Social & Forums
- TypeScript
- AGPL-3.0
- Docker
- Maintained
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 1,813
- Forks
- 127
- Open issues
- 0
- Commits, last 12 months
- 213
- Last commit
- Jul 13, 2026
- Latest release
- tyse-v1.2026.003-f220a7d9f-regularMay 26, 2026
- Created
- Jun 8, 2013
- License
- AGPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
MaintainedMaintained: last commit Jul 13, 2026.
| Last commit | Jul 13, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 213 |
| Latest release | tyse-v1.2026.003-f220a7d9f-regular (May 26, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 3 |
| Releases, all time | 11 |
| Open issues | 0 |
| Open pull requests | 120 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | No |
| Created | Jun 8, 2013 |
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About Talkyard
Create a community, where your users can suggest ideas and get questions answered. And have friendly open-ended discussions and chat (Slack/StackOverflow/Discourse/Reddit/Disqus hybrid).
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/debiki/talkyard.
Topics
- forum
- questions-and-answers
- chat
- blog-comments
- reactjs
- scala
- talkyard
- stackoverflow
- disqus
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Is Talkyard free and open source?
Yes. Talkyard is open-source software released under the AGPL-3.0 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 Talkyard with Docker?
Yes. Talkyard 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 Talkyard?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Talkyard include Mastodon, Discourse and Flarum.
Is Talkyard actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Talkyard was on Jul 13, 2026 with 213 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is tyse-v1.2026.003-f220a7d9f-regular, published May 26, 2026. It had 0 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Maintained" as of Oct 26, 2026.