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Discourse for Online Education Communities

Just like our survey for game communities [https://civilized-discourse-construction-kit-inc.ghost.io/2016/05/discourse-for-game-communities/] back in May, we once more sent out a survey to a mix of customers and self-supported Discourse communities. This time we wanted feedback from leaders in online education. We're absolutely ecstatic about the

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Discourse 1.6 Released!

We're thrilled to announce that today marks the release of Discourse 1.6! * Discourse 1.2 – Feb 2015 * Discourse 1.3 – June 2015 * Discourse 1.4 – September 2015 * Discourse 1.5 – April 2016 Enhanced Security Like any responsible open source project, we take security very seriously at Discourse.

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Reply-by-email enabled for all Discourse customers

After a few weeks of testing, we are now introducing reply-by-email to all our hosted customers. Every email notification your users receive from now on will include the notice "reply to this email to respond" in the footer. Replying by email is great for people who are on

use cases

Discourse for Game Communities

About a week ago we sent out a brief survey to the game-maker segment of our customer base, looking for some insights on how they make the most out of Discourse, and what else they'd like to see added to it. Game companies have been some of the

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Using Discourse as a community-powered wiki

> The following is a guest post by Sam Nazarko [http://samnazarko.co.uk/], CEO and founder of OSMC.tv Are you using Discourse in a novel way? If you're interested in writing a guest post like this one, please get in touch [erlend@discourse.org]. In 2014,

coding

Beginner's Guide to Creating Discourse Plugins

Part of our important work with Rails Girls [http://railsgirls.com/] in 2014 and 2015 was not just to mentor and encourage new developers, but also evolve Discourse into a platform that's generally friendly and easy for developers to build on. We'll be working with the

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Discourse 1.5 Released!

We're proud to announce that today marks the release of Discourse 1.5! This was a huge release that took us almost 7 months to build: * Discourse 1.2 – Feb 2015 * Discourse 1.3 – June 2015 * Discourse 1.4 – September 2015 5× Faster Topic Page Perhaps the most

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Switching Your Discourse from Mandrill to Mailgun

Self-hosted Discourse requires email to function, so we've always had a symbiotic relationship with third party email providers. In the past we've recommended Mandrill, we use it ourselves for some of our sites, and we've had nothing but positive experiences with Mandrill … until now.

culture

The ideal GSoC applicant

This is our first year participating in Google Summer of Code. In short, if you're a student with some Rails & Ember skills, you should check out our GSoC profile [https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/5787017325576192/] and consider applying for a chance to do paid work on Discourse

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Free Discourse forum hosting for community-friendly GitHub projects

NOTE: This announcement has should be considered deprecated and out of date, as it has been superseded by "Free Hosting for Open Source v2". Discourse is proudly and unconditionally 100% open source ever since our public launch just over 3 years ago. Open source does not exist in

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Discourse's Third Birthday

As of today, it's been three years since we launched [https://civilized-discourse-construction-kit-inc.ghost.io/2013/02/the-discourse-team/] Discourse as a public project. How time flies when you're having fun! [https://civilized-discourse-construction-kit-inc.ghost.io/2016/01/a-year-in-discourse-recap-of-2015/] As birthday present, I'm pleased to announce that

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A Year in Discourse - Recap of 2015

Discourse is a large open source project [https://github.com/discourse/discourse] buzzing with activity, so a lot of cool things happen over the course of a year. Let's look back at 2015 and pick out some highlights. Our Most Popular Topic of 2015 The most viewed topic

culture

How Coinbase Uses Discourse to Educate Customers and Improve SEO

As part of our ongoing series of interviews with customers [https://civilized-discourse-construction-kit-inc.ghost.io/tag/culture/], our latest is with John Mardlin [https://twitter.com/JohnMardlin] who helps traders, devs and humans use bitcoin at Coinbase — partly through their Discourse-powered community.coinbase.com [https://community.coinbase.com/]. What is Coinbase?

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Emoji and Discourse

We've always had a strong relationship with Emoji. From the earliest days of Discourse, you could add Emoji to your posts by by typing : and using our handy Emoji autocompleter: Of course : just so happens to be the first character of the most common ASCII smiley, our old

partners

Discourse selected for Mozilla Open Source Support program

In late October Mozilla announced something called the Mozilla Open Source Support Program [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/10/23/mozilla-launches-open-source-support-program/] . Their selection criteria seemed favourable towards Discourse, so we decided to take a shot at it. > I am reminded regularly of how deeply Mozillians identify open source

people

Discourse Team Grows by 50%

The Discourse team has grown slowly: * Jeff, Robin, Sam, Neil [https://blog.discourse.org/2013/02/the-discourse-team/] launch team (Feb 2013) * Régis [https://blog.discourse.org/2013/09/welcome-regis-hanol-to-the-discourse-team/] joins (Sep 2013) * Arpit [https://blog.discourse.org/2015/05/welcome-arpit-jalan-to-the-discourse-team/] joins (May 2015) Look at any successful open source project,

infrastructure

Shorewall+Docker: Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together

As has been mentioned previously [https://civilized-discourse-construction-kit-inc.ghost.io/2015/01/our-discourse-hosting-configuration/], we lurve us some Docker here at Discourse. We also lurve us some security, and I've recently been replacing our "artisinally handcrafted iptables firewall rules" with a Shorewall [http://shorewall.net/]-managed configuration, which

hardware

Our New Datacenter Cabinet

As Discourse grows, we're adding more server capacity and newer servers to make sure our hosting [https://discourse.org/buy] remains blazing fast. We have one server cabinet [https://blog.discourse.org/2013/04/the-discourse-servers/] at Hurricane Electric, which we have been very happy with, and we just

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Discourse 1.4 Released!

It looks like we're on a solid cadence to deliver a new version of Discourse about every 4 months: * Discourse 1.2 – Feb 2015 * Discourse 1.3 – June 2015 And you know what that means … Discourse 1.4 ships today! The focus of this release was UI improvements

culture

Choice of Games and Discourse

We don't consider Discourse successful unless the communities using Discourse are thriving and growing. And no community we host has thrived quite like Choice of Games [https://www.choiceofgames.com]. Their Discourse has absolutely exploded over the last year, to the point that they are now the 22nd

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OpenROV and Discourse

We measure Discourse's success as an open source project by one simple metric: are Discourse communities working? Is your community working? We recently interviewed Brian Adams [http://badevguru.ghost.io/] of OpenROV to discuss how they use Discourse and get some specifics about what is – and isn'

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Discourse 1.3 released!

With the help of our community and our customers, we're proud to release Discourse 1.3 today, following our 1.2 release from February. The focus of this release was new features, as requested by our customers and users. Anonymous posts 0:00/1× For sites where the

people

Welcome Arpit Jalan to the Discourse team

It's been almost two years since someone joined the Discourse team, but we're speeding things up this year as our hosting service expands. Today we'd like to officially welcome Arpit Jalan from Jodhpur, India to the Discourse team. Here's what you need

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We're Hiring a Sysadmin

> Update: As of June 1st, 2015, this position is now filled. Discourse has been growing by leaps and bounds, and we're deep into the 1.3 release [https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-version-1-3/22046], which has some exciting new features. Along with this growth, there have been

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Discourse 1.2 released

With the help of our community and our customers, we're proud to release Discourse 1.2 today! The focus of this release was performance and extensibility; here are a few highlights: Export Your Posts 0:00/1× One of the promises of Discourse is that your data belongs

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