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http://discourse.org
Discourse = community-owned infrastructure. 100% free & open source, GPL v2, export-all-your-data, self-host anywhere, and extend it however you like. If you care about sovereignty, transparency, and longevity for your community, start with Discourse:
discourse.org/open-source
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Most online “communities” are actually two very different things: 1. Libraries – knowledge bases where people arrive through a search, get an answer, and leave. 2. Cafes – smaller spaces where the value is human connection. Know which one you’re building…
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Before You "Build a Community," Decide: Library or Coffee Shop?
We analysed traffic across thousands of Discourse communities and found something intriguing: the internet has been using the word “community” to describe two very different things.
https://blog.discourse.org/2026/01/before-you-build-a-community-decide-library-or-coffee-shop/
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1/ Admin UX matters more than we admit. We’re working on a small but powerful improvement: making it much easier for admins to create and manage categories directly from the navigation menu. Here’s what we've been up to 👇
7 days ago
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Addictive design kills communities. Burnout, performative posting, anxiety-driven engagement, and eventual abandonment become the pattern. The best community PMs know that sustainable participation beats frantic activity.
blog.discourse.org/2026/01/the...
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The Product Manager's Guide to Non-Addictive Design
Engagement is the metric product teams chase, but maximising time-in-app usually means spending down your users’ time, attention, and well-being.
https://blog.discourse.org/2026/01/the-product-managers-guide-to-non-addictive-design/
8 days ago
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"Community everywhere" sounds smart until the platforms change their API, get acquired, or shut down. Remember: it’s only your home if you hold the keys.
blog.discourse.org/2026/01/dat...
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Data Portability Is Table Stakes For Community Builders In The Age Of AI
With the growing ubiquity of AI, community builders should consider data portability as table stakes when choosing which platform to focus on. It makes sense to meet people where they are, but it’s not your home unless you hold the keys.
https://blog.discourse.org/2026/01/data-portability-is-table-stakes-for-community-builders-in-the-age-of-ai/
13 days ago
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Ever wish you could "spread" arguments to an Ember component? At
#EmberFest
2025, David Taylor shared how we solved this challenge for the Discourse plugin system. Watch the lightning talk here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=osi...
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Lightning Talk - EmberFest 2025 - David Taylor
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osi2P5Kvqfg&list=PLN4SpDLOSVkQpV5RHVD8jswcne8Mi7hM6
20 days ago
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AI search can only be as good as its sources - and structured forum discussions beat ephemeral chat every time. New post on why the deeper web might be exactly what the new web needs…
blog.discourse.org/2026/01/the...
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The AI Search Revolution's Hidden Dependency
AI search is only as good as its sources. As discovery shifts from keywords to synthesis, forums - with their structured threads and complete context - are becoming the most cited, most trusted knowledge infrastructure on the web.
https://blog.discourse.org/2026/01/the-ai-search-revolutions-hidden-dependency/
21 days ago
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AI can produce plausible code faster than you can read it. But "plausible" isn't the same as "correct." Here's Discourse dev Martin Brennan on how to survive as an engineer in the age of LLMs:
blog.discourse.org/2026/01/ai-...
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AI Can Code (But It Doesn’t Care About Quality)
Every engineer now has a code-producing machine in their hands, but volume rarely equates to quality. How do individual contributors and tech leads maintain standards when it’s suddenly much easier to create than it is to edit?
https://blog.discourse.org/2026/01/ai-can-code-but-it-doesnt-care-about-quality/
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That’s a wrap on 2025! 👋 This year we focused heavily on making Discourse more accessible and powerful. We want everyone to have a place of their own for conversations that matter. Thank you for building with us. Read our full recap and see what’s coming in 2026:
blog.discourse.org/2025/12/202...
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2025: Our Year in Review
As 2025 winds down, we reflect on a year of product evolution and change. From launching AI-powered spam detection and the Horizon theme to returning to a profit-first operating model, read about how we’re building a sustainable community future.
https://blog.discourse.org/2025/12/2025-our-year-in-review/
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December's Discourse Discover theme: Linux communities! Framework, Fedora, and Ubuntu are building knowledge bases where hardware tinkerers and open source contributors find the answers and the connections they need:
blog.discourse.org/2025/12/dis...
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Discourse Discover: Linux Communities
Welcome to our December Discover Roundup, where we highlight communities doing creative and inspiring work with Discourse. This month's theme: Linux (and the tools that make it work!) Framework Framework makes laptops you can actually repair and upgrade yourself. Their laptops work beautifully with Linux, and they've built a community
https://blog.discourse.org/2025/12/discourse-discover-linux-communities/
about 2 months ago
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Chris Manson
2 months ago
We had an amazing session with
@discourse.org
today in the Ember Initiative 🎉 Over the past few months we have been working on adding
@vite.dev
support to their main
@emberjs.com
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When companies make it easy to find answers from people who use their products or services, everyone benefits. This month we’re showcasing three communities that not only offer peer support but turn their conversations into searchable knowledge for others.
blog.discourse.org/2025/11/disc...
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Discourse Discover: Knowledge Base Through Conversation
This month, we’re focusing on a particular kind of community: knowledge bases built on ongoing conversation. These communities prove that when you give people the right structure and tools, shared kno...
https://blog.discourse.org/2025/11/discourse-discover-knowledge-base-through-conversation/
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We’ve spent more than a decade helping teams move their communities to Discourse. In our latest blog post, we share a case study of a large and complex migration to show exactly how the process works.
blog.discourse.org/2025/11/how-...
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How Enterprise Migrations to Discourse Actually Work
Most engineering leaders aren’t afraid of new technology; they’re afraid of migrations that behave like black boxes. Someone says “we’ll take care of it,” a few weeks pass, and you’re asked to flick D...
https://blog.discourse.org/2025/11/how-enterprise-migrations-to-discourse-actually-work/
3 months ago
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Get a behind-the-scenes look at how our incremental update process works at scale to support more than 500 plugins and themes with minimal disruption. Read the full story:
blog.discourse.org/2025/11/driv...
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Driving Continuous Improvement at Scale
Back in 2013, Discourse launched with Rails 3 and Ember 1.0. Over the years, we’ve evolved alongside those frameworks and our many other dependencies — taking full advantage of new features, performan...
https://blog.discourse.org/2025/11/driving-continuous-improvement-at-scale/
3 months ago
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If your community is driving retention or easing customer support demands, your stakeholders should hear about it. In our latest blog post, we share five strategies to help you clearly explain the value your community brings to the organization.
blog.discourse.org/2025/11/how-...
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How to Communicate the Value of Your Community
Every community manager eventually faces the same question from stakeholders: Do we really need a community? Knowing how to answer that question — clearly and confidently — is what turns a community f...
https://blog.discourse.org/2025/11/how-to-communicate-the-value-of-your-community/
3 months ago
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We’re hosting our first-ever Ask Us Anything! On Nov. 19 at 5 PM ET, our CEOs Hawk and Sam will go live to talk about what’s coming in 2026, what we’re prioritizing (and why), and how we’re thinking about the future of online community. Get all the details here:
medium.com/@discourse_t...
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What’s Next for Discourse: Live AMA with Hawk & Sam
We’re hosting an AMA, and you’re invited.
https://medium.com/@discourse_team/whats-next-for-discourse-live-ama-with-hawk-sam-9992eda4eff8
3 months ago
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Discourse
Michael J Burgess
3 months ago
What Is Discourse and How We're Using It to Build a New Kind of Community
beitmenotyou.online/what-is-disc...
#Discourse
#OpenSource
#Forums
#Decentralisation
#Community
#DigitalSovereignty
#BeItMeNotYou
#SelfHosting
#OnlineCommunity
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Hawk’s new post for Discourse explores every stage of the community lifecycle and shares what it takes to keep communities healthy and sustainable. Read it here:
blog.discourse.org/2025/11/the-...
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The Community Lifecycle: From Launch to Legacy
Serious community builders know that communities are ecosystems; they have a lifecycle that needs adaptive strategies. That lifecycle stretches from Inception – which begins well before the free platf...
https://blog.discourse.org/2025/11/the-community-lifecycle-from-launch-to-legacy/
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We’re excited to announce our new Chat Search feature! Now you can find past conversations across channels, group chats, and DMs. It’s perfect for those “I know we talked about this somewhere…” moments. 🔍 Get all the details here:
meta.discourse.org/t/introducin...
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Introducing chat search
We’re excited to announce our new chat search feature, which makes it possible to find past conversations in chat channels, group chats, and DMs. 🔍 Full chat search across all your channels You can a...
https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-chat-search/385755
3 months ago
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ICYMI: our Community Scaries webinar replay is live! The Discourse team and guest expert Tristan Robinson explain how to measure community health, understand seasonality, and track the metrics that matter most for your community.
youtu.be/NQUnHEgKlUE
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Community Scaries: What to worry about in communities
YouTube video by Discourse
https://youtu.be/NQUnHEgKlUE
3 months ago
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We’ve been using Discourse to build Discourse from the beginning. In our latest blog post, we share how our community software helps our team collaborate and stay productive — with ideas any team can use. Check it out here:
blog.discourse.org/2025/11/how-...
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How Discourse Uses Discourse
One of the best things about working at Discourse is that we practice what we preach: we run our 100+ employee company entirely on our own platform.
https://blog.discourse.org/2025/11/how-discourse-uses-discourse/
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Here is a good example of workflows that are possible with Discourse MCP, Discourse → Jira integration.
blog.discourse.org/2025/10/disc...
#ai
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#opensource
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Community Acquisition Channels: Beyond "Build It and They Will Come" - a blog post by Mae Woods
@discourse.org
blog.discourse.org/2025/10/comm...
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Community Acquisition Channels: Beyond "Build It and They Will Come"
Successful community growth doesn’t happen by accident. You need a deliberate acquisition strategy that goes beyond vanity numbers and focuses on attracting the right people.
https://blog.discourse.org/2025/10/community-acquisition-channels-beyond-build-it-and-they-will-come/
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Behind every breakthrough in AI, there’s a conversation that made it possible. This month we explore three communities where people think together, share what works, and turn ideas into lasting knowledge. Check it out here:
blog.discourse.org/2025/10/disc...
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Discourse Discover: AI Communities Edition
Today we're highlighting three AI-focused communities that handle different challenges: a fast-growing developer tool, a massive collaboration platform, and a name that everyone should recognise…
https://blog.discourse.org/2025/10/discourse-discover-ai-communities-edition/
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We’re excited about what’s possible with MCPs and even more excited to share we now support it! AI tools like Claude from
@anthropic.com
can search your Discourse forum, read topics, and learn from your community’s knowledge. Learn more:
blog.discourse.org/2025/10/disc...
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Discourse MCP is here!
It didn't take long for our community to request an official MCP server for Discourse, and after considering many approaches on how to quickly deliver something useful to our very diverse user base we...
https://blog.discourse.org/2025/10/discourse-mcp-is-here/
3 months ago
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Today is the day! Join us at 11am ET for Community Scaries, our live webinar on community health and engagement cycles. See you there! It's not too late to sign up 👇
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
3 months ago
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Last day at Toronto Community Week! Big thanks to everyone who stopped by to chat about Discourse, platform migrations, and community building. ❤️
3 months ago
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Join us next week for Community Scaries, our latest webinar on how to tell when metric drops are just part of your community’s natural rhythm and when they’re a sign to take action. 📆 October 28 at 11am ET Register now:
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
3 months ago
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A safe community doesn’t happen by accident. In our new white paper, Safe by Design, we share practical steps for protecting member privacy and building trust from day one. Get your free copy here:
discourse.org/downloads/sa...
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Safe by Design: How to Protect Your Community Members and Their Privacy
https://discourse.org/downloads/safe-by-design-2025
3 months ago
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Building great products starts with understanding the people who use them. In our latest blog post, Lindsey Fogle reflects on how her customer-facing experience continues to shape her approach to product management at Discourse.
blog.discourse.org/2025/10/why-...
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Why Customer-Facing Experience Makes Better PMs
As I moved through various support roles, I developed skills that would eventually lead me to my current career as a product manager (though when I started out, I had no idea what product management e...
https://blog.discourse.org/2025/10/why-customer-facing-experience-makes-better-pms/
4 months ago
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Struggling with empty discussion boards or disengaged members? Our latest blog post covers how to attract people who want to connect and contribute. Plus, we've included a free worksheet to help you define who you’re building for and how to reach them.
blog.discourse.org/2025/10/comm...
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Community Acquisition Channels: Beyond "Build It and They Will Come"
Successful community growth doesn’t happen by accident. You need a deliberate acquisition strategy that goes beyond vanity numbers and focuses on attracting the right people.
https://blog.discourse.org/2025/10/community-acquisition-channels-beyond-build-it-and-they-will-come/
4 months ago
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This year, our 2025 Discourse meetup brought us together in Prague 🇨🇿 for a week of connection, a competitive pool tournament, and a look at what’s next for Discourse. Get the behind-the-scenes look at our annual meetup:
blog.discourse.org/2025/10/behi...
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Behind the Scenes: Our 2025 Prague Meetup
Every year, we bring our fully remote team together for a week-long meetup. In September 2025, 87 of us gathered in Prague for an unforgettable experience in the only way we know how — chaotic, whole...
https://blog.discourse.org/2025/10/behind-the-scenes-our-2025-prague-meetup/
4 months ago
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We’ll be at Community Week Toronto 25! 🗓️ October 23–25, come by our booth and say hi 👋 . Catch our Discourse migration experts Ruben Oussoren and Jennifer Lee as they share how to turn platform migrations into smooth, successful transitions. Tickets available here :
toronto.community-week.com
4 months ago
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For many chat communities, preserving collective knowledge is a real challenge. In our latest blog post, we look at what it costs your community when information becomes hard to find.
blog.discourse.org/2025/10/the-...
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The Cost of Ephemeral Communication
Modern communication is built for the scroll. Think: Slack and Discord chats, disappearing messages, DMs, and social feeds. But when it’s the only system of record, ephemeral channels quickly erase i...
https://blog.discourse.org/2025/10/the-cost-of-ephemeral-communication/
4 months ago
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@davidtaylorhq.bsky.social
, Tech Lead for our Developer Experience team here at Discourse, joined @EmberEurope to share how we're pushing the boundaries of Ember to provide an efficient and powerful plugin system for Discourse communities. 🎥 Watch the replay here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Db...
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Discourse's Evolving Plugin System | Ember.js Europe | Q2 2025
YouTube video by Ember Europe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Db6s2uxaY
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If your group chat community is starting to feel overwhelming, our latest blog post explains why and what you should consider doing about it.
blog.discourse.org/2025/09/why-...
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Why Your Community Needs a Home, Not Just a Group Chat
We all crave connection. And when we want to bring people together, the easiest option is to spin up a group chat. But if you’ve ever tried turning a Slack, Discord, or WhatsApp group into a real comm...
https://blog.discourse.org/2025/09/why-your-community-needs-a-home-not-just-a-group-chat/
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4 months ago
We all love to chat, but when we need to learn together in our community or our workplace, it's incredibly valuable to have collective memory. Here are some ideas to explore when you're ready to build lasting knowledge in your community.
blog.discourse.org/2025/09/the-...
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The end of community memory?
An experience I think a lot of us have these days in our interactions online, whether it be in the workplace, on social media, or even in real life is “We’ve had this conversation before…”
https://blog.discourse.org/2025/09/the-end-of-community-memory/
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In her latest blog post, our co-CEO, Hawk, shares the story behind her name while exploring the privacy paradox in online communication, and offering practical strategies for building communities grounded in privacy and safety.
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The Hawk Origin Story (A Community Builder’s Privacy Paradox)
The privacy paradox: is the delta that exists between our attitude towards protecting our personal privacy and reality of the way we behave online. Had I known about this incongruity when I first enc...
https://blog.discourse.org/2025/09/the-hawk-origin-story-a-community-builders-privacy-paradox/
4 months ago
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AI has reshaped how people find information. Search is now summaries with cited sources. Want your community content to be one of those sources? Our latest blog post has practical tips for improving discoverability. Get all the details here:
blog.discourse.org/2025/09/how-...
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How to Optimize Community Content for AI Discovery
AI has turned search into answers. People ask a question, get one synthesized response, and see a small handful of cited sources. If your community is one of those sources, you win trust, traffic, and...
https://blog.discourse.org/2025/09/how-to-optimize-community-content-for-ai-discovery/
5 months ago
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If you are looking to create a community that values reflection, builds memory, and turns conversations into lasting knowledge you should check out the latest blog post from our co-CEO, Hawk. You can read it here:
blog.discourse.org/2025/09/buil...
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Building Communities That Think
Social media and instant messaging fundamentally changed how we talk to each other. The paragraph has ceded power to fast moving and ephemeral chat that inevitably leans toward the shallow and reactiv...
https://blog.discourse.org/2025/09/building-communities-that-think/
5 months ago
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Google’s new LLM Gemini 2.5 Image is available on Discourse. This fast and powerful model allows you to edit your images right inside your community. Curious how it works? Watch the demo:
meta.discourse.org/t/gemini-fla...
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Gemini Flash 2.5 Image - now on Discourse
Google just released an exciting new multi-model LLM. This model is fast and extremely powerful. This change was introduced in the following commit: I made a quick video demonstrating the...
https://meta.discourse.org/t/gemini-flash-2-5-image-now-on-discourse/380862
5 months ago
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A community won't survive if stakeholders don't see its value. In our latest blog post, we share some of the most common mistakes community managers make when attempting to calculate the ROI of their community.
blog.discourse.org/2025/09/avoi...
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Avoid 6 common pitfalls when measuring the ROI of your community
Sometimes, knowing what not to do is a good way to get better at something. We’ve put together a list of the common missteps that community managers make when attempting to measure the ROI of their co...
https://blog.discourse.org/2025/09/avoid-6-common-pitfalls-when-measuring-the-roi-of-your-community/
5 months ago
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Did you know you can find Discourse communities in many languages? 🌍 Meet Communauté Cayas (
communaute.cayas.fr
), a French-language personal finance forum where independent investors connect to ask questions and share insights. Find them and other communities on Discover:
discover.discourse.org
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What does it take to migrate thousands of conversations, design a seamless experience, and build features tailored to your community? Our Customer Projects team knows, and Danielle’s new blog post shares their insights from our recent webinar. Learn more:
blog.discourse.org/2025/08/how-...
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How we help enterprise communities do more with Discourse
We know that building community isn’t one-size-fits-all. Every organization has its own voice, values, and vision, and your community platform
https://blog.discourse.org/2025/08/how-we-help-enterprise-communities-do-more-with-discourse/
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ICYMI: We’re looking for input on our own community, and our survey closes next week. If you haven’t had a chance to fill it out, we’d love to hear from you! Take the survey:
meta.discourse.org/t/take-the-d...
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📋 Take the Discourse Community survey!
Over the next few months, we’re going to make some improvements here in the Discourse Community (meta). We need your experience, expertise, and ideas to guide us! If you have a few minutes, please ans...
https://meta.discourse.org/t/take-the-discourse-community-survey/375863
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We’re excited to announce our latest release, Discourse 3.5! Highlights include: 📄 Horizon, our new modern theme 📝 WYSIWYG composer that still supports markdown 🌐 Automatic translations for multilingual communities Read the full details:
blog.discourse.org/2025/08/unbo...
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Unboxing Discourse 3.5
After six months of steady improvements in our beta releases, we’re excited to announce our latest release, Discourse 3.5. This release, we focused on improving both the member and community managemen...
https://blog.discourse.org/2025/08/unboxing-discourse-3-5/
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We’re working to make the Discourse community the most helpful, inspiring place for everyone who visits. We’d love to know what matters most to you. Your feedback will help guide us. Take our quick survey:
meta.discourse.org/t/take-the-d...
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📋 Take the Discourse community survey!
Over the next few months, we’re going to make some improvements here in the Discourse Community (meta). We need your experience, expertise, and ideas to guide us! If you have a few minutes, please ans...
https://meta.discourse.org/t/take-the-discourse-community-survey/375863
6 months ago
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Do you prefer Light mode or Dark? Either way, we've made it easier to set your choice! 🛠️ Admins can set per theme Light/Dark palettes and manage them in one place. 😍 Users can choose Light, Dark, or Auto in their preferences. Learn more:
meta.discourse.org/t/improved-d...
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Improved dark and light mode handling 🎨
We’re excited to announce improvements to how Discourse handles dark and light modes! These changes will make it easier for site admins to set their preferred light and dark mode palettes, while simp...
https://meta.discourse.org/t/improved-dark-and-light-mode-handling/376662
6 months ago
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ICYMI, a replay of our webinar on migrating from Khoros to Discourse is now available! It includes a full walkthrough of the migration process, real-world examples, and a Q&A with customers who’ve been through it. 🎥 Watch it now:
youtu.be/5rqm3pMzpuE
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Making the move from Khoros to Discourse
YouTube video by Discourse
https://youtu.be/5rqm3pMzpuE
6 months ago
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Last week we shipped a refresh to the topics filtering UI! 🔍 The Filter link is in the sidebar ⌨️ Filter with any keyword ⚡ Autocomplete for easy filter discovery We hope this helps make topics quick and easy to find! Learn more:
meta.discourse.org/t/new-topic-...
Demo:
youtu.be/bb3OWS4DLtA?...
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Discourse Topic Filter Demo
YouTube video by Sam Saffron
https://youtu.be/bb3OWS4DLtA?si=itnO-FSYbN9E5qfV
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