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Discourse is the 100% open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet. Use it as a:

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To learn more about the philosophy and goals of the project, visit discourse.org.

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To get your environment setup, follow the community setup guide for your operating system.

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If you're familiar with how Rails works and are comfortable setting up your own environment, you can also try out the Discourse Advanced Developer Guide, which is aimed primarily at Ubuntu and macOS environments.

Before you get started, ensure you have the following minimum versions: Ruby 2.6+, PostgreSQL 10+, Redis 4.0+. If you're having trouble, please see our TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDE first!

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If you're looking for business class hosting, see discourse.org/buy.

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Plus lots of Ruby Gems, a complete list of which is at /master/Gemfile.

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Before contributing to Discourse:

  1. Please read the complete mission statements on discourse.org. Yes we actually believe this stuff; you should too.
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  3. Dig into CONTRIBUTING.MD, which covers submitting bugs, requesting new features, preparing your code for a pull request, etc.
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We look forward to seeing your pull requests!

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