# The forum software (Discourse)

**URL:** <https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/the-forum-software-discourse/769>\
**Category:** meta\
**Created:** [August 22, 2015, 4:26pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/the-forum-software-discourse/769 "2015-08-22T16:26:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gene](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Gene](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/Gene)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 4:26pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/the-forum-software-discourse/769/1 "2015-08-22T16:26:50Z")

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This discussion forum software is very nice, it’s my first time using Discourse.

Since it wasn’t immediately apparent to me what the software is called I had to spend a few minutes digging around. To save others the effort:

The forum software is called [Discourse](http://www.discourse.org). It’s an [open source project](https://github.com/discourse/discourse), the license is GPLv2. You can download and install it yourself for free, or the Discourse project also offers hosting and installation services.