AMD AMD: Building One Developer Community How AMD built a unified developer community on Discourse - one instance with 50+ categories, custom gamification, and deep brand integration serving 5,000+ developers across AI, ROCm, gaming, and enterprise.
Introducing the All-New Admin Dashboard The redesigned Discourse admin dashboard turns a page of scattered charts into a clear, actionable read on your community, so you can see what's working, spot what needs attention, and show the value to your team.
discover Discourse Discover: Building in the Physical World Three Discourse communities where engineers and tinkerers build real hardware together.
Introducing the Discourse Free Plan The same platform that powers the world's leading tech communities is now yours for $0 - with unlimited members, unlimited chat, and a frictionless experience.
discover Discourse Discover: How Top Tech Brands Run Their Communities) Welcome to our Discover Roundup, where we highlight communities doing creative and inspiring things with Discourse!
I’m tracking down the world’s best community builders. Here’s what I’ve learned so far... I’ve spent this year talking to some of the people at the coalface of community in 2026: here's what’s working, what’s not, and where "community" is going...
ai How I use AI as the co-CEO of a remote company I run a remote company in writing, which gives us shared memory - but creates a huge amount of context to read. AI helps me find what needs attention, but it’s only an index: I still read, verify, judge, and never use it to assess people or replace trust.
case study Netwrix: Removing Language Barriers Across a Global Product Community When Netwrix consolidated scattered user bases into a single community, Discourse's AI-powered multilingual support turned language-locked silos into a knowledge hub that works in every region.
discover Discourse Discover: May Roundup This month’s Discover Roundup highlights communities where people build things in public, then turn the hard parts into shared knowledge!
ai Discourse is Agent Ready: Here’s How 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.
reddit Discourse Will Never Block You From the Web 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.
internet The Digg Lesson: Why Moderation Infrastructure Matters Digg was a platform many of us loved, and we were excited to see its return - and it’s easy to see its second downfall as the result of an Internet Gone Bad. But that implies social platforms are doomed. And at Discourse, we don’t believe that’s the case.
multilingual What It's Actually Like to Use Discourse in Another Language The real-world experience of the AI translation feature we shipped in 2025
discover Discourse Discover: Hobbyist Edition A unicycling forum with newsgroup roots, a miniature house community where builders troubleshoot each other's glue work, and a flight sim whose members run their own ATC; three forums running on the generous, specific expertise that makes Discourse special.
case study Case Study: How We Gave Brand Loyalty a Community A high-end lingerie brand found in malls across America needed a new loyalty program: a tiered system offering perks and rewards for increasing customer engagement
open-source Discourse is Not Going Closed Source Cal.com just closed their source code, arguing AI has made open source too dangerous. After 13 years of building Discourse in public, we're staying open. Here's why.
coding How Jennifer Aniston and Friends Cost Us 377GB and Broke ext4 Hardlinks One reaction GIF. Used constantly in posts, PMs, everywhere. Each use in a different security context creates a new copy. 246,173 copies of Rachel from Friends doing a happy dance.
discover Discourse Discover: Communities where builders learn together 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.
writing How Discourse Is Becoming a Community of Writers 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.
How We Built the Upcoming Changes System for Gradual Product Rollouts in Discourse 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.
ai Three Ways to Deploy AI in Community Platforms (and Why Choice Matters) Most platforms lock operators into a single AI integration; Discourse takes a different approach, offering three distinct deployment paths so communities can choose the model, provider, and level of control that actually fits their needs.
case study Elfsight: How a Wishlist Category Shaped 700 Feature Releases How Elfsight turned their Discourse community into a structured product feedback engine - and shipped over 700 features that started as a customer request.
ruby How We Fixed YAML Comment Preservation in Ruby (And Why We Sponsored It) Discourse solved a five-year infrastructure headache by sponsoring psych-pure, a Ruby YAML library that preserves comments through programmatic edits - keeping years of hard-won institutional knowledge intact.
