Erlend Sogge Heggen

People sometimes ask how Discourse compares to the likes of UserVoice and other ideation platforms, where ideas get voted on and the best ideas rise to the top. One thing many companies find appealing with these platforms is that a vote-powered ranking of prospective features somehow relieves them of certain

Most modern businesses and organisations today are using some kind of team chat application. The usual suspects are Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Mattermost, Rocket Chat, and Matrix, to name a few [https://alternativeto.net/software/slack/]. While chat is immediate and primarily synchronous, communication in Discourse is gradual and asynchronous.

Most early adopters of Discourse were developer communities, as is often the case with open source projects. Our own meta.discourse.org community is also a development-centric community, so we've been mindful of this use case since practically Day 0. Consequently, Discourse caters to a lot of developer

There are many reasons why a community might be private: Paid memberships; a company intranet; a sensitive subject matter; beta testers; a grassroots movement building momentum before going public. Whatever the reason, we want Discourse to function well in private contexts. We reached out to 23 private Discourse communities to

There is a thing called the "maker movement" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maker_culture] and, well, it's awesome. People are setting up shop in their basements, backyards or dedicated makerspaces to create things together. Makers openly exchanging their ideas and designs with one another in

Just like our survey for game communities [https://civilized-discourse-construction-kit-inc.ghost.io/2016/05/discourse-for-game-communities/] back in May, we once more sent out a survey to a mix of customers and self-supported Discourse communities. This time we wanted feedback from leaders in online education. We're absolutely ecstatic about the

About a week ago we sent out a brief survey to the game-maker segment of our customer base, looking for some insights on how they make the most out of Discourse, and what else they'd like to see added to it. Game companies have been some of the