Forem
For empowering community
Overview:
The Forem codebase is an open-source platform used to build communities, with dev.to being one of the communities hosted on it. It aims to provide a space for various groups to come together, share knowledge, and engage in discussions.
Features:
- Community Building: Create communities for different groups such as peers, customers, or fanbases.
- Supportive Dialogue: Encourages supportive and constructive dialogue for code development and career growth.
- Wide User Range: Caters to beginner and advanced developers, welcoming all to participate.
- Contributing Guidelines: Offers guidelines for contributing to the Forem platform.
- Developer Documentation: Provides detailed technical documentation for developers.
- Vulnerability Disclosure Policy: Encourages security research following a vulnerability disclosure policy.
- Open Source Licensing: Distributed under the GNU Affero General Public License.
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