Publish a personal blog you fully own, with a Markdown writing desk, an admin dashboard, and reader-facing pages all in one install. Write posts with live preview, Mermaid diagrams, math formulas, and custom highlight blocks, then paste or upload images straight from the editor or import existing Markdown files when moving over from another platform. Posts and drafts can be managed in bulk, filed under categories and tags, and locked behind passwords for individual articles or whole categories. Readers get a table of contents, code copy buttons, search, RSS feeds, friend links, and donation links, and pages follow their light or dark preference on phones and desktops. The dashboard charts visitors and page views, with Google Analytics and Baidu Analytics as optional add-ons, while Waline comments bring email notifications and webhooks. Image storage is built in, with compression and watermarking, or can be handed to PicGo, object storage, or GitHub. Pipelines run custom code or call webhooks after selected events, custom pages and CSS, HTML, or JavaScript reshape the layout, and collaborator accounts with permissions plus API tokens let several authors share one site or feed a separate frontend. Backups, import and export, and update notices live in the admin panel, and HTTPS certificates for your domain are issued and renewed automatically. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

With 22,700 GitHub stars, 4,100+ forks, and proven scale powering dev.to — one of the largest developer communities serving millions of monthly users — Forem provides a complete community platform for building engaged audiences around shared interests, whether for developer documentation, customer communities, fan bases, or professional networks. The Rails backend with Preact frontend delivers article publishing with a rich Markdown editor, threaded discussions, user profiles with portfolio links, tag-based content organization, podcast hosting, classified listings for jobs and events, and social interactions including reactions, bookmarks, and following. AI-powered semantic search using PostgreSQL pgvector embeddings surfaces relevant content across articles and concepts, while scheduled automations enable community bots to create automated roundups, republish curated content, and trigger time-based moderation actions. Score-based content ranking replaces simple reaction counts with nuanced algorithms that resist gaming. The admin dashboard provides user management, content moderation, community settings, analytics, and organization controls. OAuth integration supports GitHub, Twitter, Apple, and configurable OIDC providers for frictionless sign-up. Dynamic open-graph image generation creates branded social cards automatically. Deploy with Kamal 2 to any cloud provider or bare metal server with PostgreSQL and Redis. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPLv3 licensed.