reddit Reddit vs. Discourse: A Tale of Two Incentive Models Why Reddit’s push toward a logged-in web is a natural result of its ad model, and why at Discourse we optimize for unblocking users, preserving human context, and letting communities control their own boundaries.
Markdown Endpoints: Your Community, in a Format That AI Agents Can Read Discourse now serves every topic and topic list as Markdown, so people and AI agents can read your community's answers without the HTML clutter.
How to Run the Best Comment Section on the Web: A Playbook for Publishers Discourse gives publishers a comment section that screens spam with AI, translates threads into readers’ languages, and turns each article into a permanent thread that search engines and AI tools can find.
Discourse in 2027: Building Together Our 2027 vision for Discourse: one open-source home where your people and AI agents build together - and you own it outright.
x How to Keep a Discourse Post in Sync with an X Feed How we used Discourse Workflows and an AI agent to turn OpenAI's 28 days of shipping announcements on X into a single table on the OpenAI Developer Community
case study How TurboRenault Moved 20,000 Members from XenForo to Discourse When TurboRenault's 20,000-member, 750,000-post community outgrew XenForo's stalled development and tedious add-on updates, admin Andy Bond moved it to Discourse - and his only regret is not doing it sooner.
customer support How to use Discourse for Customer Support This guide covers how to use Discourse to cut your ticket volume, plus the habits that separate a support community that works from one that doesn’t!
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
case study Make: Building a Community-Powered Knowledge Hub with Discourse When the automation platform Integromat became Make, they moved their thriving Facebook community to Discourse to create a searchable, durable knowledge hub that serves users far beyond real-time conversation.
discover Discover Roundup: Mac Software Communities This month's Discover Roundup highlights Discourse communities built around beloved indie Apple apps - NetNewsWire, Bear, and Infuse - where developers engage directly with users and peer support becomes searchable knowledge.
discover Discourse Discover: Linux Communities Welcome to our December Discover Roundup, where we highlight communities doing creative and inspiring work with Discourse. This month's theme: Linux (and the tools that make it work!) Framework Framework makes laptops you can actually repair and upgrade yourself. Their laptops work beautifully with Linux, and they'
people Behind the Scenes: Our 2025 Prague Meetup Every year, we bring our fully remote team together for a week-long meetup. In September 2025, 87 of us gathered in Prague for an unforgettable experience in the only way we know how — chaotic, wholesome, and inspiring. As a company spread across 22 countries, we believe an in-person
success stories Celebrating a Decade of Discourse Happy Anniversary to us! On August 26, 2014, we released Discourse v1.0 and introduced hosting services. We have been full throttle ever since. Now that we’ve hit this milestone we’re taking a look back to see how far we’ve come. Discourse milestones and achievements: 100% Open
