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Misago

Misago is a modern, feature-rich forum software designed for scalability and effective online community management.

0.39.6 · Pre-1.0•GPL-2.0•Since Jun 2012•Funded by donations
Overall rating
activity, maturity, stars
5.7
/ 10
GitHub stars
2.8k
Contributors
44
Last commit
3 days ago
Project age
14 years

About

Misago is a modern discussion platform designed to support dynamic online communities. It offers real-time updates, robust moderation tools, and flexible customization options, enabling seamless management and interaction. Its mobile-friendly interface ensures accessibility across devices, while its scalable architecture suits communities of various sizes.

Key Features

  • Your users may register accounts, set avatars, change options and edit their profiles. They have option to reset forgotten password.
  • Sign in with Facebook, Google, Github, Steam, Blizzard.net or any other over 50 supported OAuth providers.
  • Site admins may require users to confirm validity of their e-mail addresses via e-mail sent activation link, or limit user account activation to administrator action. They can use custom Q&A challenge, ReCAPTCHA, Stop Forum Spam or IP's blacklist to combat spam registrations. Pletora of settings are available to control user account behavior, like username lengths or avatar restrictions.
  • Create categories together with unlimited number and depth of subcategories.
  • Write messages using either GitHub flavoured markdown, BBCode subset, or both.
  • Presence features let site members know when other users are online, offline or banned. Individual users have setting to hide their activity from non-admins.
  • Complete moderation toolset allowing admin-approved moderators to edit, move, hide, approve, delete or close user posted content. This also includes option to delete or block user accounts or avatars.
  • Ban system allows you to ban existing users as well as forbid certain user names, e-mails or IP addresses from registering accounts.
  • Permission system allowing you to control which features are available to users based on their rank, roles or category they are in.
  • Post accurate read tracker that lets your users spot threads with new posts as well as let moderators spot unapproved replies and non-moderators spot approved posts.
  • Private threads feature allowing users to create threads visible only to them and those they've invited.
  • Python-based profile fields framework letting site owners to define custom fields for users to fill in complete with powerful customization options for custom requirements, display or validation logic.
  • Rich polls system, allowing polls with public and private voters, single and multiple choices as well as ones that allow vote change or limit voting tp limited period of time.
  • Post attachments complete thumbnailing and gif's animation removal.
  • Mark post in question thread as best answer, bringing basic Q&A functionality.
  • Posts edits log allowing you to see how user messages used to look in past as well as revert function protecting you from malignant users emptying their posts contents.
  • Moderation queue for users and categories allowing you to moderate content before it becomes visible to other members of the community.
  • Custom theme developed with bootstrap.
  • Features and settings for achieving GDPR compliance.
  • Integrate forum with your site using implemented OAuth2 client and JSON API.

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