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Misago

Fully featured forum application written in Python and ES6, powered by Django and React.js

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Misago is an open-source forum application written in Python, Django, ES6 and React.js. It provides a self-hosted discussion platform where administrators can run community forums with categories, threads, user accounts and moderation tools. The project's own site demonstrates the application in use, with sections for News, Releases, Support, Roadmap, Dev, General, Translations, Styling, Feedback and Bugs.

The application includes an admin control panel for managing forums, users and permissions, and supports extensions and plugins, including Admin CP plugin functionality and username styles. It offers Docker-based installation and maintenance, with a container image available, alongside a Dockerless installation path. The project provides documentation, a Discord community channel and a GitHub repository. The forum supports themes and styling customization, including custom page headers and CSS-based backgrounds. The project is distributed as open-source software; no paid editions, trials or seat-based pricing are described on the pages provided.

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