For clubs, associations, clans, and every group run by volunteers
The group chat forgets.Your board will not.
One technical member sets it up in an evening; everybody else just gets a link. Announcements stay where they are put, decisions are findable years later, the committee's room is private, and the subs are taken online. When the person who set it up moves on, the board is handed over whole.
“I sent it three times and half of them still missed it.”
A notice stays in the forum you put it in, is still there on Saturday morning, and can go out by email to the whole community at once.
“Half our members are not on Facebook, and never will be.”
Your board is a link — no account with any company, no app to install, and nobody shut out for refusing a platform.
“The subs are a spreadsheet and a shoebox.”
A member pays through Stripe, the members' area opens for them, and the whole thing lapses on its own when the year is up.
“Nobody can find the minutes from March.”
Every decision is a thread in a forum only the committee can see, and search goes back through all of it.
Membership
Take the subs online, and stop chasing them.
Dues comes with the software: membership sold through Stripe as a subscription, a pass or a lifetime, with the plans set in your own panel. Paying opens the members-only forum by itself, and the money is between your community and Stripe — no cut, and no per-member fee at any point.
Coming from somewhere else?
There is no clean way out of a Facebook group, a Discord server or a Slack. Most communities start fresh, run both for a season, and move what was worth keeping. A MyBB or phpBB board imports whole — working passwords included.
Not quite you?
The same board, argued four other ways.
One piece of software. What changes is which of its problems you recognise.
Open-source projects
A support forum your project owns: answers with URLs worth pinning, pages that render without JavaScript, and an archive no platform can sunset.
Meith for open-source projects →
MyBB & phpBB boards
The way out of a PHP forum nobody wants to maintain: members, posts and working passwords, imported whole.
Meith for MyBB and phpBB boards →
Product & SaaS communities
A support community on your domain, behind your identity provider, wearing your brand — with no per-member pricing.
Meith for product and SaaS communities →
Agencies & dev shops
One engine, a board per client: each a small config repo you can theme, deploy, upgrade — and hand over whole.
Meith for agencies and dev shops →
Give your community somewhere to keep things.
Set up by one person in an evening, run from a browser by the people who run everything else. Have a look at a real board first.
- A repository
- npx create-meith, pushed to your GitHub
- A server
- Rented in the community's name, from a few euro a month
- An evening
- Once — an upgrade is a version bump