ai - Discourse

Reddit vs. Discourse: A Tale of Two Incentive Models

Why Reddit’s push toward a logged-in web is a natural result of its ad model, and why at Discourse we optimize for unblocking users, preserving human context, and letting communities control their own boundaries.

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AMD: Building One Developer Community

How AMD built a unified developer community on Discourse - one instance with 50+ categories, custom gamification, and deep brand integration serving 5,000+ developers across AI, ROCm, gaming, and enterprise.

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How I use AI as the co-CEO of a remote company

I run a remote company in writing, which gives us shared memory - but creates a huge amount of context to read. AI helps me find what needs attention, but it’s only an index: I still read, verify, judge, and never use it to assess people or replace trust.

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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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The Digg Lesson: Why Moderation Infrastructure Matters

Digg was a platform many of us loved, and we were excited to see its return - and it’s easy to see its second downfall as the result of an Internet Gone Bad. But that implies social platforms are doomed. And at Discourse, we don’t believe that’s the case.

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Three Ways to Deploy AI in Community Platforms (and Why Choice Matters)

Most platforms lock operators into a single AI integration; Discourse takes a different approach, offering three distinct deployment paths so communities can choose the model, provider, and level of control that actually fits their needs.

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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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Your Community as Your AI Knowledge Layer

By structuring a community as a forum with clear Q&A, tagged discussions, marked solutions, and searchable archives, you can turn scattered insights into a durable knowledge layer.

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Data Portability Is Table Stakes For Community Builders In The Age Of AI

With the growing ubiquity of AI, community builders should consider data portability as table stakes when choosing which platform to focus on. It makes sense to meet people where they are, but it’s not your home unless you hold the keys.

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The AI Search Revolution's Hidden Dependency

AI search is only as good as its sources. As discovery shifts from keywords to synthesis, forums - with their structured threads and complete context - are becoming the most cited, most trusted knowledge infrastructure on the web.

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AI Can Code (But It Doesn’t Care About Quality)

Every engineer now has a code-producing machine in their hands, but volume rarely equates to quality. How do individual contributors and tech leads maintain standards when it’s suddenly much easier to create than it is to edit?

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Discourse MCP is here!

As soon as Anthropic open sourced their Model Context Protocol (MCP) proposal for interfacing with AI agents almost a year ago, we started getting excited about how good of a match it was for Discourse. Model Context Protocol (MCP) is Anthropic’s open standard for connecting AI assistants to live

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Introducing AI Bot

Our Discourse AI modules are designed to make your community experience easier, simpler, faster and hopefully, more fun. Today, we’re excited to announce the “AI Bot” module, which uses the power of conversation to help you get any of your questions, suggestions, recommendations, or comments answered in seconds. All

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Introducing Discourse AI

We are happy to announce Discourse AI, the first step in integrating Artificial Intelligence with Discourse communities. Our new plugin is our one-stop solution offering both new features and enhancing existing ones. With this first release, we are shipping 7 different Discourse AI modules. These modules are designed to