Valour is an open-source community platform offering real-time chat, thread-based post feeds, community wikis, and voice channels in one app. It is built on Blazor and WebAssembly instead of Electron for performance, and both client and server are open source under AGPL. Communities can self-host via Docker or use Valour's hosted infrastructure, and it includes a built-in Discord importer for migrating existing communities.
What it's for
real-time community chathosting lasting discussion feedsbuilding a searchable community knowledge base/wikivoice communication for communitiesrunning a community currency/economy systemmigrating a community from Discordself-hosting a private community server
Features 16
- API access to hook into the economy system
- Bring-your-own-server voice hosting option
- Built on Blazor & WebAssembly for performance
- Built-in Discord importer
- Community wikis with revisions and search
- Community-made and custom themes with a theme marketplace
- Cross-community multi-channel viewing
- Economy system for launching a community currency
- Multi-window chat with resizable windows, splits, and tabs
- No ads, no data selling, no ID or phone verification (email-only signup)
- Node-based backend for large-community scalability
- Open source client and server under AGPL
- Publishing wikis to a custom URL
- Self-hosting via one docker compose command
- Thread feeds with hot/new/top sorting
- Voice channels
Pricing
No pricing plans or paid tiers are publicly available; the product is presented as an open-source, self-hostable platform.
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