What it is

bbs-go is a lightweight community and Q&A platform for forums, knowledge bases, and discussions. It lives in the self-hosted community-platform ecosystem, combining questions, posts, articles, comments, votes, tags, and nodes. The project is offered under the GPL-3.0 license, and its topics include golang, react, forum, qna, community, and discussion.

bbs-go solves the problem of running a community without deploying a heavier platform or assembling separate forum, Q&A, and knowledge-base tools. It provides a front end, dashboard, and installation wizard, so an operator can create a technical, product, hobby, internal, or membership community.

Key capabilities

• Supports posts, dynamic updates, and articles with editing, comments, replies, likes, and collections.
• Provides Q&A and discussion workflows with tags, nodes, voting, hidden content, and site search.
• Includes account registration and login with multiple login methods, profiles, personal pages, follow and fan relationships, messages, and reminders.
• Offers daily check-in, tasks, points, experience, levels, medals, and leaderboards.
• Gives operators content and user governance, report handling, banned-word management, roles, menus, interface permissions, system parameters, and logs.
• Supports en-US and zh-CN.
• Deploys with official Docker images and Docker Compose using MySQL or PostgreSQL, with images on GHCR and Docker Hub.

Who uses it and how

• Builders use it for technical exchange, Q&A, knowledge bases, hobby groups, product user communities, internal knowledge communities, and membership communities.
• Operators use the dashboard to manage users, posts, comments, articles, reports, banned words, permissions, menus, roles, and configuration.
• Members log in, publish content, comment, vote, collect, follow, receive messages, check in, earn points, and view leaderboards.
• Self-hosters deploy with Docker Compose, pull images from GHCR or Docker Hub, run remote-deploy.sh, and use health checks and rollback.

Getting started

Install with the official Docker Compose files for MySQL or PostgreSQL by downloading docker-compose.yml or docker-compose.postgresql.yml and running docker compose up -d. For server releases, pull the published image and run remote-deploy.sh, which validates compose, rebuilds the container, and performs a health check for up to 90 seconds.

When to use it — and when not to

Use bbs-go when you want a self-hosted community platform that combines forums, Q&A, articles, and growth mechanics without a heavier system like Discourse, Flarum, NodeBB, or Question2Answer. Avoid it when you need a mature hosted community with complex moderation, a PHP or Node stack, real-time interaction as the main requirement, or a pure Q&A site. Self-hosters must operate Docker Compose, MySQL or PostgreSQL, image pulls from GHCR or Docker Hub, and rollback; the README does not mention a managed hosted option, SMTP, or storage details.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mlogclub/bbs-go/master/docker-compose.yml -o docker-compose.yml
docker compose up -d

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mlogclub/bbs-go/master/docker-compose.postgresql.yml -o docker-compose.yml
docker compose up -d

git push origin master

# 服务器上执行（首次或每次发布）
bash /opt/bbs-go/repo/deploy/remote-deploy.sh

# 服务器上执行：拉取上一个可用镜像 tag 并重建
docker pull ghcr.io/<owner>/bbs-go:sha-<上一个正常 commit>
docker compose -f /opt/bbs-go/docker-compose.yml up -d --no-deps