updates

In Localizing Discourse [https://blog.discourse.org/2013/03/localizing-discourse/], I noted that we leveraged the mature, built in localization support in Rails to make it easier to translate Discourse into your preferred language. To better support large scale translations for Discourse, we're now using a crowdsourcing translation

To celebrate our first birthday (a little late, I know) I'm pleased to announce we are now accepting signups for Discourse communities. So happy birthday! We've made tremendous headway towards version 1.0, and most of that is thanks to our first three beta partners: * How-to

Discourse launched at version 0.8.0.0 which was my off the cuff estimate of how "done" we were with our first public release on February 5th, 2013 -- about eighty percent done, I thought, once you factor in the ninety-ninety rule: The first 90 percent of

Discourse was always intended to be a discussion platform supporting every human language. We launched one month ago supporting only English, but since we used the default Ruby on Rails i18n gem, Discourse can be (relatively) easily translated into the language of your choice. As of last week, you can

It's been a little over two weeks since we launched Discourse. Our current plan is what I call swabbing the deck, spending the next month or so polishing and finalizing the features we shipped, fixing any urgent problems or bugs that are blocking folks. Just the absolute minimum