Valour
A privacy-focused, open-source platform for communities offering real-time chat, thread feeds, wikis, voice channels, and customizable themes. No ads, no data selling, and fully self-hostable.
Valour is an open-source community platform designed to be a complete home for your community. Built with privacy and transparency in mind, it offers real-time chat, thread feeds, community wikis, voice channels, and an economy system—all without ads or data selling.
Key Features
- Multi-window Chat: Open multiple channels across communities with resizable windows, splits, and tabs for a customizable layout.
- Thread Feeds: Post feeds with hot, new, and top sorting for lasting discussions that don’t disappear like chat messages.
- Community Wikis: Build a knowledge base with revisions and search, publishable to a custom web URL.
- Voice Channels: Integrated voice chat or self-hosted options for full control.
- Economy System: Launch a community currency, reward members, and integrate with external systems via API.
- Themes & Customization: Restyle the app with community-made themes or publish your own to the theme marketplace.
- Blazor & WebAssembly: Optimized tech stack for superior speed and performance compared to Electron-based apps.
- Node-based Backend: Custom backend system for handling large communities without disabling core features.
Tech / Self-Hosting
Valour is built on Blazor & WebAssembly for the frontend and a node-based backend, ensuring high performance and scalability. The platform is fully open-source under the AGPL license, allowing you to self-host your instance with a single Docker command or host your data on your own servers. No corporate funding, no ads, and no data selling—just a transparent, community-driven platform.