Our Commitment to Your Ongoing Success with Discourse

We’re making some organizational changes and we want to be direct with you about our plans.

Like many technology companies navigating the market conditions of the past year, we’re adjusting our cost structure to ensure long-term sustainability. We’re managing discretionary spending more carefully and focusing our resources on the areas that matter most to our customers.

As a part of that adjustment and our renewed product focus, we’re saying goodbye to some of our talented colleagues and team members. These decisions are difficult but necessary to align our expenses and our resources, and build a stronger foundation for Discourse.

The fundamentals that brought you to Discourse remain unchanged. Your data belongs to you. Our open source foundation gives you options and flexibility that proprietary platforms can’t match. Whether you’re on Discourse hosting or self-hosted, you control your community’s future. We’re not going anywhere, and neither is your ability to own and operate your online space on your terms.

Our revenue has been steady but our goal now is to reach profitability at a streamlined cost structure. Rather than compromise on the quality of our platform or our service to you, we’re making internal adjustments that let us maintain both while building a more sustainable business model. This approach reflects the same long-term thinking we apply to product development.

We are focusing on our release cycle, improving our support commitments, and investing in the features and product updates that make Discourse the platform of choice for thoughtful online communities. Our roadmap stays intact, including our work on unified identity systems and expanded capabilities that help moderators manage and grow their communities.

The platform you rely on will keep getting better. Our recent releases have added powerful moderation tools, improved search capabilities, and AI features designed to enhance rather than replace human community management. The Discourse ecosystem is growing, our documentation is improving, and our community of developers and administrators is more active and engaged than ever. We’re investing in the technology that makes asynchronous, searchable conversation work at scale.

We built Discourse to last because we believe in the value of persistent, searchable, asynchronous conversation.

That vision guides everything we do, including how we manage the business itself.

These adjustments put us on stronger footing to serve you for years to come.