Open source building blocks for your community

Forem is an open source community platform for cultivating modern, secure, and independent communities.

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Why Forem?

Connect

Rally around common obsessions. Features like our news feed fuse the best of social media with modern community.

Create

Publish your thoughts in any form they come. Markdown, rich text, images and video sharing.

Engage

Empower your users with notifications, rich member profiles, and badges to reward activity.

Moderate

We're pioneers in safe and inclusive community building. We provide best-in-class tooling so your community can do the same.

Discover

Embedded SEO tooling ensures your highly valuable user generated content will be indexed and discovered by current and future users.

Extend

The platform enables you to do just about anything through custom pages, from unique static content to running a live conference with thousands of participants.

Forem powers thriving communities such as DEV - a social network of 850k+ software developers

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Communities building on Forem

DEV was created in 2016 to be a place for developers from all over the world to gather and share their knowledge. Today, DEV is a passionate community of over 800k+ members and 10+ million hits per month. DEV is where developers, tech professionals, and thought leaders go to connect, learn, and freely editorialize.

One of the web's foremost thought leaders in the community space is Community Club, a space for community builders by community builders. Community Club chose Forem for its commitment to open source, inclusive ethos, safety tooling, and content syndication capabilities.
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Web Monetization leverages Forem for their community dedicated to improving business models on the web for creators, publishers, and consumers alike. Their efforts are backed by Grant for the Web and are dedicated to boosting open, fair, and inclusive standards and innovation through open protocols.

As you engage your users, community empowers your team

Product Development

Facilitate better product roadmapping through tight feedback loops
Surface and prioritize critical information as it arises
Enable thoughtful, longform, async communication out in the open
Receive more organic and candid user feedback

Marketing & Advocacy

Acquire new users and developers passively through SEO-optimized user-generated-content
Enable product-led-growth sales through active community
Bring prospects to your sales team later in the funnel
Create a community-led organic drip of marketing leads with intent

Customer Success

Empower your users and prospects with search-indexed Q&A and accessible troubleshooting solutions
Decrease support ticket volume with concise self-service
Free up Customer Success resources from around-the-clock monitoring of synchronous channels like Slack and Discord

Customize and extend Forem to serve your exact needs

Design your optimal user experience with adjustable branding, custom pages, community badges, and more

Let's build your favorite place on the internet.

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