Falco - Discourse

Introducing Discourse AI

We are happy to announce Discourse AI, the first step in integrating Artificial Intelligence with Discourse communities. Our new plugin is our one-stop solution offering both new features and enhancing existing ones. With this first release, we are shipping 7 different Discourse AI modules. These modules are designed to help

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Publish Your Community on the Windows Store

Did you know that you can make your existing (or brand new) Discourse site into a Microsoft Windows Store app? If you have a user base that mainly uses Windows and will benefit from the deeper OS integration, like being pinned to the taskbar or even autostarting on boot, or

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Discourse on a Raspberry Pi

A long standing feature request from our community is finally here! As of today, you are able to host a complete Discourse instance in a $35 Raspberry Pi. You can go ahead and follow our official install guide [https://github.com/discourse/discourse/tree/main/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md], and it

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Faster (and smaller) uploads in Discourse with Rust, WebAssembly and MozJPEG

As of a few weeks ago, image uploads in Discourse are faster AND smaller thanks to a technique that compresses and optimizes the images clientside before they are uploaded. This blog post will describe how this feature works and how we implemented it in Discourse. Introduction While Discourse, and forums

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Standing on the Shoulders of a Giant Elephant: Upgrading Discourse to PostgreSQL 13

When the Discourse project started, way back in 2013, the team had to pick and choose between a handful tools into what would become our "stack", the foundational software on which Discourse would be built upon. Some choices proved sub-optimal early, but we were able to quickly migrate