Overview

📬 Spacebar is a free open source selfhostable discord compatible communication platform The project has 7K+ GitHub stars and is licensed under AGPL-3.0.

Key Features

Source: GitHub README

Discord-compatible (Use all your custom clients/bots with minimal changes)
Selfhostable (Server)
Open Source (GitHub Organization)
Configurable (Configure every aspect and limits to your needs)
Decentralized (no abuse of power and doesn’t have a single point of failure)
Extendable (secure and cross-platform plugin system)
Themeable (cross-platform theme system with design editor)
Secure (publicly audited and hosted FOSS software for transparent foundation in terms of security)

Getting Started

Source: GitHub README

You can find setup guides and lots of other information in our Documentation
For any kind of support regarding Spacebar, feel free to ask questions in our Discord guild.

Normalized Features

Source: tool-features-normalized.json

plugins.

Deploy

Docker

Self-host with Docker Compose

Coolify

One-click via Coolify panel

Elestio

Managed hosting from $9/mo

PikaPods

Simple managed hosting

Features

Integrations & APIs

Plugin / Extension System

Replaces

Discord

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