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Discourse API Documentation Released!

Today we would like to announce our much anticipated Official API Docs! You can find them at: http://docs.discourse.org Today, more than ever, an application needs to be able to integrate with other applications and the Discourse API allows you to easily integrate your Discourse forum with any

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Summer of Code 2017

This summer, Discourse will be participating in three different "summer of code" projects! Google Summer of Code 2017 First of all, we're happy to announce that we've been accepted into Google Summer of Code [https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/] for the 2nd time in a

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The Discourse Encouragement Fund

For almost a year now, we’ve been doing something that’s considered quite risky [http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/2013/the-perils-of-mixing-open-source-and-money.html] for an open source project: Paying contributors. Communities like ours are fundamentally built on intrinsic motivation [https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-vast-and-endless-sea/]. Getting money involved can jeopardize the whole

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Discourse's Fourth Birthday

As of today*, it's been four years of Discourse! It feels like only only yesterday [https://blog.discourse.org/2013/02/the-discourse-team/] that we launched Discourse as an open source project. We've certainly been busy for the last four years: * 1 official non-beta release [https://blog.

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Discourse for Private Communities

There are many reasons why a community might be private: Paid memberships; a company intranet; a sensitive subject matter; beta testers; a grassroots movement building momentum before going public. Whatever the reason, we want Discourse to function well in private contexts. We reached out to 23 private Discourse communities to

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Discourse 1.7 released!

Today, after four months of work, we're proud to release Discourse 1.7. * Discourse 1.2 – Feb 2015 * Discourse 1.3 – June 2015 * Discourse 1.4 – September 2015 * Discourse 1.5 – April 2016 * Discourse 1.6 – August 2016 Official iOS and Android Apps Thanks to Sam Saffron, we

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Discourse New User Tips and Tricks

Getting going in an online community can be overwhelming, especially if you've never used the platform before. If you're new to Discourse, here are a few quick tips and tricks to get you started: Reading Selecting a title from the topic list will always take you

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Discourse for Maker Communities

There is a thing called the "maker movement" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maker_culture] and, well, it's awesome. People are setting up shop in their basements, backyards or dedicated makerspaces to create things together. Makers openly exchanging their ideas and designs with one another in

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Official Slack integration for Discourse

Editor’s note: We no longer support this Slack plugin as we offer a chat integration plugin for external chat systems, including Slack, that you wish to connect to your Discourse community. Today we're making Slack chat a first class integration, available on all hosting plans. Over time

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Announcing v1.0 of WP Discourse

We are pleased to announce the v1.0 release of WP Discourse [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-discourse/], our official WordPress plugin. A huge thanks goes out to Simon Cossar [http://scossar.com] who spearheaded this push towards a stable release. We'd also like to thank Ben Word [https:

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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

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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,

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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.

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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

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How Coinbase Uses Discourse to Educate Customers and Improve SEO

As part of our ongoing series of interviews with customers, our latest is with John Mardlin who helps traders, devs and humans use bitcoin at Coinbase — partly through their Discourse-powered community. What is Coinbase? Coinbase’s mission is to make bitcoin accessible for normal people. Our core product is a

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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

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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

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