NodeBB is next generation community forum software. It's powerful, mobile-ready and easy to use.

Looking for a way to engage your followers, away from the noise and chaos of today’s “social” sites? NodeBB takes the spirit and energy of the great online forum communities of old, and empowers it with powerful, mobile-ready and easy to use software.

## Give your audience a platform with NodeBB

- **Open Source**: For the tech savvy DIY pro, install and maintain NodeBB on your own server.

- **One Click Forum Hosting**: Get your forum going right away with our monthly hosting plans.

- **Enterprise**: A tailored, high-performance forum for enterprise customers that integrates with your existing infrastructure.

## Features

- **Responsive**: NodeBB is mobile-first and was developed to be a perfect experience no matter what device it's viewed on. It looks great on all devices or screen resolutions.

- **Internationalization**: NodeBB has built-in multilingual support to provide a localized user interface and translatable content.

- **SEO**: Human-readable URLs, semantic HTML with embedded microdata, and many more SEO features.

- **GDPR compliance**: NodeBB was the first forum software to comply with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

- **Connect to the world**: Activating native ActivityPub support allows your users to share with others in the wider fediverse, including Mastodon, and more.

- **Realtime Streaming**: See the conversation as it unfolds with realtime streaming of topics, posts and notifications.

- **Single Sign-on**: SSO makes it easy for visitors to become members on your NodeBB site. Registration has never been so easy.

- **Theming**: Change the look and feel of your NodeBB site. You can use themes contributed by others or create your own to match your existing website!

- **Chat**: Built in chat and instant messaging support that enables your users to interact with each other.

- **Plugins**: We have many plugins to choose from that will enhance your community's user experience.

- **Roles & Permissions**: Control fine-grained, role-based permissions that can be assigned per category. Assign multiple roles to individual users. This is perfect for your private community.