# What is this forum based on?

**URL:** <https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/what-is-this-forum-based-on/44606>\
**Category:** Informal\
**Created:** [May 1, 2021, 5:48pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/what-is-this-forum-based-on/44606 "2021-05-01T17:48:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
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**Author:** ![anon22067914](https://forum.infinityfree.com/letter_avatar/anon22067914/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@anon22067914](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/anon22067914)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 5:48pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/what-is-this-forum-based-on/44606/1 "2021-05-01T17:48:44Z")

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Does anyone know what software and theme this forum is based on?

Thanks in advance 🙂

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**Author:** ![Greenreader9](https://forum.infinityfree.com/user_avatar/forum.infinityfree.com/greenreader9/32/22847_2.png) [@Greenreader9](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/Greenreader9)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 5:51pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/what-is-this-forum-based-on/44606/2 "2021-05-01T17:51:50Z")

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This forum is using discourse. A free and open-source forum software. Unfortunately, you cannot install it in free hosting.

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**Author:** ![anon22067914](https://forum.infinityfree.com/letter_avatar/anon22067914/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@anon22067914](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/anon22067914)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 5:57pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/what-is-this-forum-based-on/44606/3 "2021-05-01T17:57:20Z")

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Not even via FTP?

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**Author:** ![Thewebuser22](https://forum.infinityfree.com/user_avatar/forum.infinityfree.com/thewebuser22/32/25592_2.png) [@Thewebuser22](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/Thewebuser22)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 6:21pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/what-is-this-forum-based-on/44606/4 "2021-05-01T18:21:01Z")

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discourse uses Ruby on Rails, which isn’t PHP (what this hosting provider provides as a language to program websites in)

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**Author:** ![anon80999597](https://forum.infinityfree.com/letter_avatar/anon80999597/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@anon80999597](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/anon80999597)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 7:05pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/what-is-this-forum-based-on/44606/6 "2021-05-01T19:05:04Z")

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If you want to install a Discourse-like forum, you should consider [Codoforum](https://codoforum.com/)

download it [here](https://bbuseruploads.s3.amazonaws.com/1ac47712-dbb5-434e-8d69-9331afc8b6c4/downloads/dd697697-8b33-41a2-8c02-79007b44fb3c/codoforum.v.5.1.zip?Signature=Rh%2FT7m%2Fn8zQfVyulx1wQgla5ra0%3D&Expires=1619897647&AWSAccessKeyId=AKIA6KOSE3BNJRRFUUX6&versionId=.5UrQ_jZgKft3aoqPIxlM9ZN_l5wa3aP&response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3D%22codoforum.v.5.1.zip%22)  
it has a free version too

demo: [https://codoforum.ga](https://codoforum.ga)

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**Author:** ![anon22067914](https://forum.infinityfree.com/letter_avatar/anon22067914/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@anon22067914](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/anon22067914)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 12:39pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/what-is-this-forum-based-on/44606/7 "2021-05-03T12:39:14Z")

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ok, ill have a look.

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**Author:** ![Admin](https://forum.infinityfree.com/user_avatar/forum.infinityfree.com/admin/32/36437_2.png) [@Admin](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/Admin)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 9:04am UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/what-is-this-forum-based-on/44606/9 "2021-05-05T09:04:30Z")

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This forum ran on Codoforum as well back in 2016. The whole project felt a bit hacky back then. It was moved to Vanilla Forums later that year, I haven’t kept track of what happened to the project since then.

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**Author:** ![anon80999597](https://forum.infinityfree.com/letter_avatar/anon80999597/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@anon80999597](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/anon80999597)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 2:56pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/what-is-this-forum-based-on/44606/10 "2021-05-05T14:56:35Z")

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So now it’s on Discourse right?  
I know ProFreeHost is on Vanilla

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**Author:** ![Greenreader9](https://forum.infinityfree.com/user_avatar/forum.infinityfree.com/greenreader9/32/22847_2.png) [@Greenreader9](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/Greenreader9)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 2:59pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/what-is-this-forum-based-on/44606/11 "2021-05-05T14:59:27Z")

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> [@anon80999597](#):
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> So now it’s on Discourse right?

Yes, this forum is currently running on Discourse.

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**Author:** ![anon80999597](https://forum.infinityfree.com/letter_avatar/anon80999597/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@anon80999597](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/anon80999597)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 3:07pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/what-is-this-forum-based-on/44606/12 "2021-05-05T15:07:54Z")

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ok

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**Author:** ![system](https://infinityfree-forum-uploads.s3.dualstack.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/original/3X/b/0/b024fd3fa88bae093c9576e55c2c94e33f890206.svg) [@system](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 3:08pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/what-is-this-forum-based-on/44606/13 "2021-05-20T15:08:02Z")

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