Ruqqus is an open-source platform for online communities, free of censorship and moderator abuse by design.
- Moderator power limited by design
- No ads
- US-based servers
- Mobile friendly
- Dark mode
A moderator has the power to "kick" a user-submitted post from their community (guild) but never delete it off the platform entirely. Kicked posts end up in a catch-all guild called +general. Content that violates the site-wide policy is removed by the core team.
Moderators, called guild masters, can only moderate a maximum of 10 guilds.
We do not serve ads. Put simply, advertisements lead to censorship. Ruqqus is funded out-of-pocket by the core team and through donations from users.
Ruqqus is responsive and mobile browser-friendly.
An account is not required to browse Ruqqus but we recommend creating one.
1. Create an account
Sign up in seconds, no email required. With a Ruqqus account, you can vote and comment on posts as well as join guilds.
2. Join some guilds
After signing up, we recommend you join some guilds. Your home feed will be populated by content from guilds you've joined.
3. Create a post
On Ruqqus, you can share links or text posts.
Pull requests are welcome! For major changes, please open an issue to discuss what you would like to change.
As an open-source project, we are supported by the community. If you would like to support the development of Ruqqus, please consider making a donation :)
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Upon installation, trying to submit a post will cause a 404 error. You have to create a guild first (to achieve this perhaps temporarily remove the 250 rep restriction on making guilds). You also need to make sure the badwords table is populated.
Note: When trying to run Ruqqus locally, make sure to use a tagged release version. The reason this is necessary is that the file schema.txt is not always updated, which will cause Ruqqus to crash. If after first setting up Ruqqus you are getting a 500/Internal Server Error on pages because of database errors, this is most likely why.