Jeff Atwood

We're proud to announce that today marks the release of Discourse 1.5! This was a huge release that took us almost 7 months to build: * Discourse 1.2 – Feb 2015 * Discourse 1.3 – June 2015 * Discourse 1.4 – September 2015 5× Faster Topic Page Perhaps the most

Self-hosted Discourse requires email to function, so we've always had a symbiotic relationship with third party email providers. In the past we've recommended Mandrill, we use it ourselves for some of our sites, and we've had nothing but positive experiences with Mandrill … until now.

As of today, it's been three years since we launched [https://civilized-discourse-construction-kit-inc.ghost.io/2013/02/the-discourse-team/] Discourse as a public project. How time flies when you're having fun! [https://civilized-discourse-construction-kit-inc.ghost.io/2016/01/a-year-in-discourse-recap-of-2015/] As birthday present, I'm pleased to announce that

We've always had a strong relationship with Emoji. From the earliest days of Discourse, you could add Emoji to your posts by by typing : and using our handy Emoji autocompleter: Of course : just so happens to be the first character of the most common ASCII smiley, our old

It looks like we're on a solid cadence to deliver a new version of Discourse about every 4 months: * Discourse 1.2 – Feb 2015 * Discourse 1.3 – June 2015 And you know what that means … Discourse 1.4 ships today! The focus of this release was UI improvements

With the help of our community and our customers, we're proud to release Discourse 1.3 today, following our 1.2 release from February. The focus of this release was new features, as requested by our customers and users. Anonymous posts 0:00/1× For sites where the

With the help of our community and our customers, we're proud to release Discourse 1.2 today! The focus of this release was performance and extensibility; here are a few highlights: Export Your Posts 0:00/1× One of the promises of Discourse is that your data belongs

As of today, it's been two years since we launched Discourse as a public project! To celebrate, we're making one of our most common requests available -- a standard hosting plan. It includes the following: * The full Discourse feature set, of course! * High speed custom colocated

In September, the entire Discourse Team had our yearly world meetup in Toronto. It was a blast! Robin and Neil (not pictured, he has a thing with heights) hosted us and made sure a fun time was had by all in their home city. We rode segways, we climbed the

Today we are incrementing the version number of Discourse to 1.0. We've been working on Discourse in public for about a year and a half now – since February 2013. Turns out that's about how long it takes to herd an open source project from "

In January I wrote about The Road to Discourse 1.0 [https://civilized-discourse-construction-kit-inc.ghost.io/2014/01/the-road-to-discourse-1-0-2/], and I mentioned that we planned to reach version 1 in "the next few months". That time has come. I'm pleased to announce that we will leave beta

In Localizing Discourse [https://blog.discourse.org/2013/03/localizing-discourse/], I noted that we leveraged the mature, built in localization support in Rails to make it easier to translate Discourse into your preferred language. To better support large scale translations for Discourse, we're now using a crowdsourcing translation

To celebrate our first birthday (a little late, I know) I'm pleased to announce we are now accepting signups for Discourse communities. So happy birthday! We've made tremendous headway towards version 1.0, and most of that is thanks to our first three beta partners: * How-to

Discourse launched at version 0.8.0.0 which was my off the cuff estimate of how "done" we were with our first public release on February 5th, 2013 -- about eighty percent done, I thought, once you factor in the ninety-ninety rule: The first 90 percent of