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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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&

As of Discourse 1.8, every new user who joins will get a welcome PM from discobot: Discobot is a natural extension of our original, static welcome PM. However, Discobot is much more than a greeter; it also offers to interactively "play" the Discourse game with each new

We're thrilled to release Discourse 1.8 today, building on Discourse 1.7 from January. Narrative Welcome Bot Perhaps the biggest new feature in this release is our narrative welcome bot, which greets new users with a personal message and offers to interactively "play" the Discourse

This week we unveiled a completely revamped discourse.org! When our original website was first launched in 2013, Discourse's features were quite novel. Concepts like "infinite scrolling", "dynamic notifications" and "mobile-friendly" were state of the art for open source community platforms, especially

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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