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Discourse Still Gives Back

When Discourse Gives Back [https://blog.discourse.org/2017/12/discourse-gives-back-2017/] was last published in 2017, we were delighted and humbled to see the wider Discourse community resonate with our mission to give back to the open source projects we rely on. While we admit that we dropped the ball

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Discourse 2.5 released!

Today we release Discourse 2.5, building on Discourse 2.4 [https://civilized-discourse-construction-kit-inc.ghost.io/2020/02/discourse-2-4-released/] from February. 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

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COVID-19 and Discourse

The world is in the midst of a global pandemic [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic]. I'm sure you've seen a lot of these messages, so we'll get right to the point. As a completely free open source tool

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Discourse 2.4 released!

Today we release Discourse 2.4, building on Discourse 2.3 [https://civilized-discourse-construction-kit-inc.ghost.io/2019/06/discourse-2-3-released/] from last year. 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

use cases

Discourse for Science and Academia

A sizable number of Science and Research communities rely on Discourse for their discussion needs; let's take a deeper look and figure out why. We've spoken to an assortment of customers and self-hosted sites to learn more about their use cases and determine the role of

infrastructure

Discourse Official Hosting Now Available in EU

Yes, Standard and Business hosting is now available in the EU! Early this year we deployed additional bare-metal hosting in Europe. Until now the EU region was only available to our Enterprise customers, but we are pleased to announce that you can now sign up [https://www.discourse.org/pricing]

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Presentations on Discourse

If you'd like a deeper dive into the philosophy of Discourse, the project -- what it is, what it set out to do, and why it exists -- I can recommend a few presentations and podcasts I've done over the years which go deeper on background

security

Slack Security Incident

From mid 2014 to January 2018, Discourse used Slack as an internal chat tool. In February 2015, Slack had a security incident [https://slackhq.com/march-2015-security-incident-and-the-launch-of-two-factor-authentication] , and notified any accounts of "suspicious activity": > As part of our investigation we detected suspicious activity affecting a very small number

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Discourse 2.3 released!

Today we release Discourse 2.3, building on Discourse 2.2 from February. For post 2.0 releases we've chosen a new set of codenames based on the history of human communication; this release is Vinca. Completely overhauled flag and review system Arguably the the biggest change in

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Discourse 2.2 released!

Today we release Discourse 2.2, building on Discourse 2.1 from September 2018. For post 2.0 releases we've chosen a new set of codenames based on the history of human communication; this release is La Pasiega. UI refinements For consistency with mobile and to free up

partners

Free hosting for Patreon creators

Nearly two years ago we started very carefully experimenting with free hosting of open source projects. We recently rolled out the v2 of this program for open source projects, and today we're extending the same offer for Patreon creators. Free Discourse Hosting For Your Patreon Project Are you

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Free Hosting for Open Source v2

Nearly two years ago we started very carefully experimenting with free hosting of open source projects. Today we're announcing the next iteration of our free hosting program, casting a much wider net this time. Free Discourse Hosting For Your Open Source Project Do you run a popular open

use cases

Discourse as an ideation platform

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

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Discourse 2.1 released!

Today we release Discourse 2.1, building on Discourse 2.0 from May. We've chosen a new set of codenames for releases starting with 2.1 that are based on the history of human communication. This release is Bhimbetka, and the next two will be La Pasiega and

culture

Launching a Successful Discourse Community

While we've offered general tips for building a Discourse community [https://civilized-discourse-construction-kit-inc.ghost.io/2014/08/building-a-discourse-community/] , we also get a lot of questions about what specifically you can do to help launch a successful Discourse community. What is the "elevator pitch" for your community? The

culture

Understanding Discourse Trust Levels

The user trust system is a fundamental cornerstone of Discourse. Trust levels are a way of… * Sandboxing new users in your community so that they cannot accidentally hurt themselves, or other users while they are learning what to do. * Granting experienced users more rights over time, so that they can

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Discourse 2.0 released!

We released Discourse 2.0 on May 31st, building on Discourse 1.9 from January. New Admin Dashboard We've completely redesigned the admin dashboard to show off your most relevant and essential community health metrics right at the top, as well as trending searches. 0:00/1× Shared

infrastructure

HTTPS by Default

Here at Discourse World HQ, we’re firm believers in the value of security. We fund a public bug bounty program, and we document our security policy and procedures right in the repo. Securing traffic between a forum’s server and its users is important, too, and we’ve had

use cases

Effectively using Discourse together with group chat

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.

culture

Discourse in Outreachy Summer 2018

tl;dr: Discourse will be participating in Outreachy Summer. If you are eligible to participate in this internship, please consider applying [https://www.outreachy.org/2018-may-august/communities/discourse/#testing]! About Outreachy Participants of Outreachy work with an open source organization (in our case Discourse) on a 3 month programming project.

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How Does Team Discourse Use Discourse?

Editor's note: Updated February 9, 2023 to reflect that Discourse now has a chat feature that we use internally. As we claim on our website, we use Discourse as our primary team coordination tool to build… Discourse! * Collaboration Tool * Product Management * Task Management * Support Ticketing * Knowledge Base Collaboration

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Discourse 1.9 released!

We released Discourse 1.9 on January 3rd, building on Discourse 1.8 from last June. Show Who's Replying Discourse is all about replies being disconnected in time and space, but we agree that showing when people are actually replying to a topic is genuinely useful in a

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Discourse Gives Back 2017

We've had a fantastic year at Discourse, growing our team [https://civilized-discourse-construction-kit-inc.ghost.io/2017/11/discourse-team-grows-to-20/] to 20 21 people. (There's also something exciting and major happening early in 2018 that we've worked hard on for the last six months that we can&

infrastructure

An Instrumentation Story (How I Learned to Love the Elastic Stack)

in which we discover a better way to meet our customer's needs while showing us where we can improve our code When you're operating a hosting service it's essential to know what's going on. Visibility into your environment is required, both on

people

Discourse team grows to 20

Over the last few months we’ve added a whopping 9 members to the Discourse team! We held off on any big announcements until our new team page [https://www.discourse.org/team] was ready for primetime. Behold the first twenty! Drawings courtesy of the excellent Nick Staab [https://www.

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