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Our discussion forums are powered by the free and open-source Forem application.

If you’d like to start your own, get in touch at: [email protected]

• We’ll provide a free subdomain: your-forum-name.beaconny.net
• You’ll host the application in your own DigitalOcean account (which we’ll help you set up) at a cost of about $15/month.
• If you need support, you can ask for help in the great community over at the official Forem site, or in our Computing Club forum.

Alternatively, Forem offers their own cloud-hosted version that takes care of all the technical details and includes support, to which you can point a custom your-forum-name.beaconny.net subdomain.