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Discourse 2.8 Released!

Today we release Discourse 2.8, building on Discourse 2.7 [https://civilized-discourse-construction-kit-inc.ghost.io/2021/05/discourse-2-7-released/] from May 2021. For post 2.0 releases we’ve chosen a new set of codenames [https://meta.discourse.org/t/codenames-for-post-2-0-discourse-releases/89212] based on the history of human communication; this release

online community

The Eight Best Places to Build a Private Community

Building and running private communities is becoming a more important endeavor for creators, cohorts, coaches, companies, and more. People are looking for a safe space to connect with others online, and a private community is one way to accomplish that goal. You might be ready to start your journey on

updates

Discourse Gives Back: 2021 Edition

Discourse had a great year. We raised a $20 million Series A investment and grew to 56 people... but we couldn’t have done it without you! And now, as we do at the end of every year, it’s time to give back. As an open source project ourselves,

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Private Communities: What They Are and How to Build One

What is a private community? A private community is similar to its counterpart, public online communities, in that it’s a place for a group of people to come together for a common purpose, interest, or vision – doing so via the Internet [https://civilized-discourse-construction-kit-inc.ghost.io/2021/08/online-community/] . The

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Improve Your Community Experience Using a DIY Community Health Check

Communities are living, breathing systems. They can either be growing, thriving, stale or dying, and this state of the community is defined by the community’s health. A healthy community is filled with growth. But how do you know what state your community is in? To figure this out, it’

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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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The Six Types of Online Communities (with Examples of Each)

An online community brings together people who wouldn’t normally connect with each other in the real world. Businesses, creators, and brands alike are all realizing the power of creating community in the digital landscape. While it’s tempting to think communities are alike, not all look the same. There

community management

Celebrate Your Community with a Year in Review

The end of the year is a time full of celebrations. It’s also a great time to celebrate your community’s most impactful members and discussions. While digging up the data to find these users and topics can be time consuming, we’ve made it extremely simple with our

seo

Handling SEO for Discourse Communities

If you are concerned about how your community is performing in search engine results (SEO), there are a number of questions to keep in mind when looking to optimize your community software of choice. We frequently get asked questions in our support inboxes and in our public community [https://meta.

success stories

How Let’s Encrypt Uses Community to Provide Free Support To Over 40% of the World’s Internet

As part of our ongoing series of interviews with customers [https://civilized-discourse-construction-kit-inc.ghost.io/tag/use-cases], our latest is with Sarah Gran [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-gran-saline/], who manages everything about communications at Let’s Encrypt [https://letsencrypt.org/] and Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) [https://www.abetterinternet.org/

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Building an Emotionally Sustainable Company

In many ways, our company seemed well-positioned for the COVID-19 pandemic. We'd already been a 100% remote company, spread across many time zones and countries. We'd learned to use tools (like Discourse!) asynchronously to communicate and work effectively. When push came to shove, though, it didn&

infrastructure

Discourse Official Hosting Now Available in Canada

We are pleased to announce availability of all hosting tiers in our Canadian datacentre! Located in Toronto, customers hosted here benefit from a configuration that stores and processes their data solely in Canada. Visit our pricing page [https://www.discourse.org/pricing] and choose the "East CA" location

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Eight Tips to Improve Your Community's SEO

Helping people find your community takes time and patience. It also takes a little knowledge about search engines, how they work, and how people locate your community through them. In this article, we’re going to demystify the basics of SEO and how you can optimize your community for discovery.

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Facebook Groups: A Guide on When to Use Them and When to Seek Alternatives

For a fledgling community, Facebook Groups are often seen as the leading standard. They’re easy to access, come with a built-in audience, and require little to no knowledge to get started. But are Facebook Groups the only option? When might you need something a bit more powerful? In this

technology

Who's at Fault: Tracking Down Segfaults in Production

Within complex applications and hosting environments, segfaults can manifest themselves in a myriad of weird and wonderful symptoms. For Discourse the application, this may be a notification email failing to send, or an uploaded image failing to be optimized, or many other not-very-noticeable problems. In some cases, subtle bugs causing

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A Simple, 5-Step Strategy to Kickstart Your New Community

So you’re interested in starting a community on the Internet. Great! It might seem like the best idea to just grab your nearest social software and start talking about your passion. That’s a great way to get yourself moving, but if you’re interested in building something sustainable,

remote work

Managing Work and Workloads on Remote Teams with Discourse

We’ve done things a little differently here at Discourse since we started in 2013. Instead of being co-located in one place, we’re a globally distributed team [https://discourse.org/team]. For the most part, we’ve removed time zones from the collaboration equation by working asynchronously. This means

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Five Essential Features of an Online Community Platform

Choosing the right community platform can be difficult. With the variety of feature sets available, it can be difficult to know what's most important for your community. In this post, we’re going to take a look at what we think are the five most important features to

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Skittish: A Playful, Audio-First Space for Virtual Events and Gatherings - Cool Community Tech

Sometimes community technology is so freaking cool, you can't help but share it! This time around, we're chatting with Andy Baio, creator of Skittish, a playful, audio-first virtual space for hosting events and gatherings online. Let's get into the conversation and learn more! Tell

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What is Online Community?

Everyone everywhere is looking for community. Sometimes community is found in person. Other times it’s found elsewhere. One of the most prominent alternative places to find community is online. So what is an online community? Let’s find out! In this article, we’ll cover: * The definition of an

updates

Discourse Announces $20m Series A Investment by Pace Capital and First Round Capital

We're pleased to announce that Discourse has taken $20 million in Series A investment from Pace Capital, joined by our seed investors, First Round Capital. It's been quite a journey since our seed foundation in 2012 and the launch of Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Incorporated. In

success stories

How UiPath Built a Successful Product Community with Discourse

Every day, customers are building, growing, and running successful communities powered by Discourse. Today, we're highlighting one of them. Who are UiPath? UiPath [https://uipath.com], a leading enterprise automation software company, is on a mission to provide a robot for every person. It streamlines processes, uncovers efficiencies,

use cases

Keys to Building a Successful Support Community

Starting a support community is a great way to involve your customers in the discussion around your products or services. In fact, it's an easy way to increase the overall quality of your customer experience [https://civilized-discourse-construction-kit-inc.ghost.io/2021/07/support-community-customer-experience/]. If you're looking to

technology

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

use cases

Five Ways Support Communities Improve Customer Experience

Here at Discourse, we utilize a support community [https://meta.discourse.org] to provide service to both our self-hosted and paid hosting customers. Our customers have direct access to the team that makes the software -- resulting in faster support and better long-term solutions for reported problems. A support community

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