# What is this forum? How does one create a forum like this?

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**Created:** [March 24, 2020, 8:08pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/what-is-this-forum-how-does-one-create-a-forum-like-this/18991 "2020-03-24T20:08:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![portis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/977dab/32.png) [@portis](https://discourse.processing.org/u/portis)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 8:08pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/what-is-this-forum-how-does-one-create-a-forum-like-this/18991/1 "2020-03-24T20:08:02Z")

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What is this forum? How does one create a forum like this?  
I want to create a forum for people who like to read books and who’d like to exchange reading suggestions.  
Is it difficult to build a database, to install the forum’s program on a server?

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**Author:** ![jeremydouglass](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/jeremydouglass/32/20_2.png) [@jeremydouglass](https://discourse.processing.org/u/jeremydouglass)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 12:28am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/what-is-this-forum-how-does-one-create-a-forum-like-this/18991/2 "2020-03-25T00:28:15Z")

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This forum is discourse.

> **[What is Discourse?](https://www.discourse.org/about)**
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> Discourse is the 100% open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet.

It can be self-hosted or you can pay for hosting.