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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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Discourse 3.1 is here!

Today, we are pleased to announce Discourse 3.1! Filled with features for members and admins alike, this version includes chat threads, a more customizable sidebar, improved search and numerous other improvements. This release is accompanied by the launch of our Discourse AI plugin, embracing the power of emerging large

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Running Ruby 3.2's YJIT in Production at Discourse

At Discourse, we have been eager to adopt YJIT ever since Shopify’s Ruby & Rails Infrastructure team declared it production-ready. After witnessing promising local benchmarks, we began running our production Rails applications with Ruby 3.2’s YJIT enabled on selected clusters in early May 2023. We then spent some

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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 help

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Discourse Gives Back: 2022 Edition

This past year we saw a lot of growth at Discourse. We added over 20 people to our team, and we worked hard to release a chat feature that was a huge step in allowing short, casual conversations without a third party plugin. We also worked towards releasing Discourse 3.

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Discourse 3.0 is Here!

Today, we’re excited to announce the release of Discourse 3.0! We are bringing our customers and users some major new capabilities to enable communities to have thoughtful, purposeful discussions online. This new release includes real-time chat and user status to enable more informal communication, a customizable sidebar for

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Our New Basic Plan Is Now Available. Try It Out Today!

Today, we’re adding the Basic plan to our hosting lineup for groups, clubs, teams, and other small, private communities who need more than just a chat group to connect, keep in touch, collaborate, and create a shared long term memory. On the Basic plan you get all the powerful

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Discourse Chat is now available. Try it out today!

Discourse Chat [https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-chat/230881] is now available to everyone as an open beta and is 100% free and open source [https://github.com/discourse/discourse-chat], as always. At Discourse we have long believed in the importance of asynchronous communication for the long-term health of a

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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

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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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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 [https://pacecapital.com/], joined by our seed investors, First Round Capital [https://firstround.com/]. It's been quite a journey since our seed foundation in 2012 [https://blog.codinghorror.com/civilized-discourse-construction-kit/] and the launch

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Discourse 2.7 Released!

Today we release Discourse 2.7, building on Discourse 2.6 [https://civilized-discourse-construction-kit-inc.ghost.io/2020/11/discourse-2-6-released/] from last November. 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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Discourse 2.6 released!

Today we release Discourse 2.6, building on Discourse 2.5 [https://civilized-discourse-construction-kit-inc.ghost.io/2020/06/discourse-2-5-released/] from June. 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 is Baudot

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Discourse for Teams is here!

Editor’s note: Discourse Teams plan was sunset in April 2022 . If you are looking for a home for your private community we recommend our Basic Plan. You can invite up to 100 people and enjoy all the features of our latest release). Today we launch Discourse for Teams. Teams

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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 is Greek

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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 for coordinating online work, Discourse can

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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 release is

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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 than what you'll find

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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 this release

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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 horizontal space

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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 Vinca. Access

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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 Drafts Staff

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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 variety of

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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't quite announce yet. But trust me