We're excited to launch the Discourse Free Plan! For more than a decade, Discourse has powered discussions for open-source projects, developer communities, and customer forums at companies like OpenAI, Asana, Atlassian, and Zoom. Now you can spin up a real Discourse for your community! 🧵

The latest episode of The Discourse show is live 🎙️ Rosie Sherry built a tech community so tight-knit that members tattooed the logo on their bodies - and bootstrapped it into a movement... We talk community, care, software testing & AI. Watch 👇 youtu.be/etSGDqfREeM

The new reactions popup has landed! We're adding a new reactions popup in chat that makes it easy to see everyone who reacted to a message. 🧵

Livestreaming on Discourse just got a cleaner, more unified home. The Livestream plugin has now been folded into the Events plugin, which means communities can manage livestreams, virtual events, and in-person events from one place! 🧵

Wrapping up June with our latest Discover roundup! Find out how some of the world's leading tech brands embrace forums for support and knowledge sharing: blog.discourse.org/2026/07/dis...

Tech writer JA Westenberg is tracking down the world's best community architects to figure out what actually works in 2026. One of the biggest lessons so far: Stop obsessing over ROI. Belonging is the product. Everything else is just a byproduct. blog.discourse.org/2026/06/im-t...

Discourse co-CEO Hawk on running a fully remote company: AI should surface what actually needs a leader's attention - without becoming an authority, a surveillance camera, or a substitute for trust. blog.discourse.org/2026/06/how-...

GIFs are moving into Discourse core! 🧵

When Netwrix brought scattered user communities into one place, Discourse's multilingual support broke down the language barriers, turning the forum into a knowledge hub that works for every customer, everywhere. blog.discourse.org/2026/06/netw...

Our Discourse Discover: May Roundup is about communities where people build things in public, then turn the difficult parts into shared knowledge... 🧵 1/14

We just made it much easier to create events! The Calendar and Events plugin now has a simplified event creation flow... 🧵

Discourse is not going closed source. Here's why. 🧵

Recurring events just got easier to manage in Discourse! Members can now choose whether they’re RSVPing to the next occurrence only, or to the event and all future occurrences. That gives organizers a clearer attendee list, and gives members better control over reminders. 🧵 1/8

“Community manager” makes the work sound like moderation, tickets, rules, and admin. “Community architect” gets much closer. Are people walking into a library, an aquarium, a conference, or a carnival? youtube.com/shorts/K9WN...

The best community forums make room for WIP, beginner questions, strange edge cases, failed attempts, and working answers. It's where the (most) useful knowledge comes from. More in our May Discover roundup: blog.discourse.org/2026/05/dis...

A useful question for community builders: Are you designing for content, or are you designing for connection? New episode of the Discourse podcast with Paz Pisarski on community, belonging, trust, and the hidden curriculum behind great communities! youtu.be/wwv1x3U1xr0

Community is easier to build when it solves a painful, urgent problem. Richard Millington explains why “painkiller” communities outperform “vitamin” communities:

If the agentic future is here, your Discourse community has everything it needs to be ready. If you want to opt out, the options are yours - and we have your back either way. blog.discourse.org/2026/05/dis...

Reddit is pushing mobile users out of the browser and into its app because apps give platforms more control, more data, and more ways to monetise attention. Discourse takes the opposite position. blog.discourse.org/2026/05/dis...

Reddit just started blocking access to mobile users, demanding they download the app before they can keep reading. There is no “continue to site” and no way around it. It’s just a wall. We want to be clear: Discourse will never do this. Here's why 🧵 1/11

We’ve added a new “Me too” button to unsolved topics in support categories 🧵 When a member finds a topic describing an issue they’re also experiencing, they can now click “Me too” to indicate they’re impacted...

Discourse just consolidated tag management! 🧵 Every tag operation on selected topics now lives inside a single Manage Tags modal, replacing the three separate buttons that used to clutter the bulk actions menu.

Are social platforms doomed to be overrun by bots? And is the dead internet theory already inevitable? We don't think so. Discourse CEO Hawk explains why. blog.discourse.org/2026/05/the...

This is the real-world experience of the AI translation feature we shipped in 2025… Exactly what it’s like to use Discourse in another language. blog.discourse.org/2026/05/wha...

1/6 Great feature ideas die in a few places: buried in chat, lost in support tickets, drowned out by whoever emails you most, or forgotten between planning meetings. We made it easier to stop that.

Episode 3 of the Discourse podcast! We're talking to Richard Millington about community, psychology, brand and what it means to bring humans together... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cob...

This week's case study - what started as a conventional points program now operates as a community-led experience that drives ongoing engagement, connection, and long-term value... blog.discourse.org/2026/04/cas...

After 13 years of building Discourse in public, we're excited to announce: we're staying open. Discourse has always and will always be open source. Here's why. blog.discourse.org/2026/04/dis...

A GIF of Rachel from Friends doing a happy dance was duplicated 246,173 times on one Discourse site. 1.6 MB became 377 GB of backup bloat and broke a filesystem limit. Turns out Jennifer Aniston can stress-test infrastructure: blog.discourse.org/2026/04/how...

1/7 Discourse's embed system has let you show forum comments on your blog for years. One catch: it was read-only. Visitors could see the discussion but had to click through to your Discourse site to actually participate. That just changed...

Our new website is a Webby Honoree for 2025! We're incredibly proud of the design team at Discourse and the hard work they've put into this. #webbys

If you're a history buff, this is the blog post for you. We cover how multilingual support at Discourse evolved over 13 years - with some honest behind the scenes! blog.discourse.org/2026/03/bui...

Just shipped a feature we're proud of for Discourse - solved schema markup for solution posts. Here's what we did and why it matters for SEO 🧵

New on YouTube: our co-CEO Hawk on the state of online communities. We dig into what's going wrong with digital spaces, how the attention economy shapes community culture, and why open source infrastructure matters for community builders: youtu.be/h0SibWF04Io

1/6 We just made it way easier to set up support / Q&A categories on Discourse. New category type, smarter defaults, less configuration. Here’s what we’ve changed 🧵

Our latest Discourse Discover roundup is live! This month's Discover Roundup looks at three communities where builders show up with real projects, hit real problems, and get real help from the people who ~know... blog.discourse.org/2026/03/dis...

1/ New improvements just shipped in Discourse. Here’s what’s changed this round…

Keegan from Discourse tells you literally everything you need to build your community... Learn the exact setup: categories, AI tools, moderation, trust levels, and chat in 8 minutes. Whether you're starting a community or scaling one, this covers it. youtu.be/5daZ_eSVGGA

A strong moderator program is one of the most powerful ways to scale a healthy community. We'll walk you through exactly how to design a program that fits your community’s size, culture, and goals, and how to support moderators so they stay engaged long-term: zoom.us/webinar/reg...

We build software around the idea that long-form conversation beats chat for real thinking - so we started asking why all that thinking was staying inside the company. Here's what happened when we challenged everyone to write publicly. blog.discourse.org/2026/03/how...

We started a podcast. First guest is Sam Saffron who co-founded Discourse because he believed in the power of online communities. We talked about what AI actually changes in an engineering team, how it unlocks moderation at scale and why trust is paramount... youtu.be/VrP2oP6LvWI

Take a look behind the scenes! Here's how Discourse built a system to roll out product changes without breaking anyone's forum - and why the answer was hiding in the codebase the whole time... blog.discourse.org/2026/03/how...

What does it look like to replace social media with forums? We're finding out... www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Di...

The short version of what we believe at Discourse: a community’s language should not be the factor that stops someone from participating in a community... blog.discourse.org/2026/03/eve...

New from Discourse... This month, we're launching the Discourse Podcast with tech writer JA Westenberg! We'll be talking with the leading voices in community about the state of the internet, coordinating humans and how we get from here to a better web. More soon.

Discourse offers 3 AI deployment paths: BYO API key, Managed AI + Self-hosted models One-size AI ages badly. Optionality wins. blog.discourse.org/2026/03/thr...

What happens when you swap the scroll for something slower? Keegan from Discourse spent a week off algorithmic social media. No Twitter/X, no Instagram, no TikTok, no LinkedIn feed... www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Di...

What happens when you swap the scroll for something slower? Keegan from Discourse spent a week off algorithmic social media. No Twitter/X, no Instagram, no TikTok, no LinkedIn feed. Instead, he redirected that time to community spaces... youtu.be/6DijCrwXmuo

Most feature request systems are where ideas go to die. Elfsight built theirs differently - public voting, status tracking, and developer KPIs tied to community-requested releases, all running on Discourse. The result: 700 features shipped so far. blog.discourse.org/2026/02/elf...

Category creation on Discourse just got a lot simpler. Fewer fields, better color picker + straightforward access controls. Advanced settings are still available when you need them. Enable in your admin panel under Upcoming Changes! meta.discourse.org/t/simplifie...