Extensible community software for a global society
Kopling is open source, self-hosted community software built with widely adopted technology, so no feature is out of reach.
Benefits
A few reasons Kopling is worth building a community on, or building extensions for.
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01Built to extend, so you can tailor it to your needs. Using an industry-standard stack including Laravel and Tailwind.
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02Honors data sovereignty, for people and industries that need to own their data, and treat the data of others with respect.
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03By people, for people, to have honest interactions, to build real relationships.
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04Runs anywhere, from shared hosting plans to scalable enterprise cloud environments.
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05Symbiotic with Laravel, just another package in your Laravel app.
Why Kopling
Why new software, not an existing project?
Most community software picks one of two paths: either it's built around a single kind of community and doesn't bend, or it's extendable but that flexibility comes wrapped in a complex stack — which ends up keeping most people out rather than inviting them in. Kopling is built for both: extendability first, from day one, and a stack that's genuinely current — Laravel, Tailwind, and htmx — deliberately avoiding that complexity, so the people who want to extend it actually can.
Read the full manifesto →Who's building this
Twenty years of engineering-lead roles, including development teams at one of Europe's largest fashion e-commerce platforms — a unicorn — paired with a decade of open source community stewardship leading Flarum, from moderator to chairman of its foundation.
"Ideas deserve software that gets out of the way. Kopling bridges that gap, a community platform flexible enough to become whatever it needs to be."
Extensions
Kopling ships as a small core plus extensions -- here's what's actively being worked on.
Admin
The Admin portal -- community-operator tools, gated behind their own permissions.
Email/password login
Email/password sign-in and registration -- built on Core's Validate/Attempt Login and Registration events.
Composer
Share a moment from the top of the feed.
Demo
Tooling for creating demo communities.
Discussions
A discussion page per moment, with an activity teaser and engage bar.
Pin
Pin a Moment to the top of the community feed, with a reason, optional scheduling window, and optional Groups targeting.
Poll
Attach a poll to a moment -- single or multiple choice, optional group targeting, optional closing time.
Profile
A detail page per person, making people linkable the same way discussions makes a moment linkable.
Reactions
Emoji and worded reactions for moments and replies, with optional tag-configured upvote/downvote and Latest/Top sorting.
Reply dock
A sticky reply dock on discussion pages — a bar that morphs into a composer.
Style Guide
A living showcase of every core <x-k::*> component, kept in sync by a coverage test rather than hand-maintained docs.
Tags
Categorise moments with tags, browse everything under one, and optionally restrict who can post or reply within a tag.
Delft
The light Delft-blue brand theme for Kopling.
Midnight
A dark theme for Kopling.
Thread title
The moment title slides into the sticky topbar as you scroll a discussion.
Widgets
Community pulse and popular tags in the sidebar.
See it in action
Kopling community features showcased.
