Discourse Team - Discourse

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.

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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!

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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'

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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

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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