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Discourse

Discourse

Civilized discussion for your community

4.8•6 reviews•

37 followers

Civilized discussion for your community

4.8•6 reviews•

37 followers

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Discourse is an open source Internet forum and mailing list management software application founded in 2013 by Jeff Atwood, Robin Ward, and Sam Saffron.
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Launched in 2014View 3 launches
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Discourse was ranked #5 of the day for June 8th, 2015
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Discourse Launches

Discourse 2.0
Discourse 2.0 Civilized discussion for your community, redesigned ✨

Launched on June 1st, 2018

Discourse 2.0 was ranked #4 of the day for June 2nd, 2018
Discourse 2.0 was ranked #4 of the day for June 2nd, 2018
Discourse
Discourse A platform for community discussion. Free, open and simple.

Launched on June 4th, 2015

Discourse was ranked #5 of the day for June 8th, 2015
Discourse was ranked #5 of the day for June 8th, 2015

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Discourse 2.0

Civilized discussion for your community, redesigned ✨
Discourse 2.0 was ranked #4 of the day for June 2nd, 2018

Discourse 2.0 is a major update to the 100% open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet.

What's new:

📊 A fully redesigned admin dashboard

🔍 Improved advanced search

🔒 Two Factor Authentication

🇪🇺 GDPR Enhancements

and more!

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Productivity•Open Source•User Experience
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AmrithRobin WardJeff Atwood

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Ryan Hoover
Ryan Hoover
Product Hunt

Product Hunt

LOL at the "GDPR Enhancements" in the feature list. 😊
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7yr ago
Mattias P Johansson
Mattias P Johansson
@rrhoover Why? GDPR results in a number of features directly beneficial to end users.
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7yr ago
Arpit Choudhury
Arpit Choudhury
Integromat

Integromat

Really cool. But what are your thoughts on companies abandoning their forums to move to a Facebook Group? I have seen this happen a lot, of late.
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7yr ago
Mattias P Johansson
Mattias P Johansson
@irhymeth What exactly are you basing this on?
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7yr ago
Arpit Choudhury
Arpit Choudhury
Integromat

Integromat

@mpjme For example, Chatfuel moved to a group from their forum which I believe (not 100% sure) ran on discourse.
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7yr ago
Mattias P Johansson
Mattias P Johansson
@irhymeth So when you say "companies", that you've seen "happen a lot", you actually refer to one company? :) Here is the story of one that went the opposite route: https://blog.discourse.org/2017/... My friend moved his synth forum off Facebook groups to Discourse: https://www.simplysynth.com/login Discourse is a popular platform for private forums for creators that run Patreon pages (and Patreon is growing a lot).
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7yr ago
Arpit Choudhury
Arpit Choudhury
Integromat

Integromat

@mpjme We at Integromat have also made the move and I know many companies that are setting up Facebook or Slack groups. I never questioned the use cases of a forum, they are awesome. But they don't seem to work very well for SaaS products. It's very hard to keep engagement high and people have to wait a while to get answers. Facebook groups on the other hand are always in the moment and I've experienced this both as a user and as an admin.
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7yr ago
Matthew Boogaard
Matthew Boogaard
@mpjme @irhymeth I don't see why you would want to hand over control to Facebook. Especially given Facebook have control of all data and users and a tendency to make changes to functionality without consulting. I guess it depends on your use case.
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7yr ago
Amrith
Amrith
stoic.

stoic.

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Congrats on the launch @codinghorror @eviltrout 😸 Is it too early to ask what you guys have in mind for 3.0? 🤔
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7yr ago
Erlend Sogge Heggen
Erlend Sogge Heggen
@amrith we don't really do large sweeping releases. There wasn't actually anything different about this release compared to 1.9, 1.8 etc. we just decided to bump it to 2.0 instead of doing 1.10, same as WordPress, our spirit animal ;)
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7yr ago
SeaTable
Christoph Dyllick-Brenzinger
Christoph Dyllick-Brenzinger
used Discourse to buildSeaTable
(321 points)
SeaTable has a strong community, which we could only build thanks to this amazing forum software. Every day, hundreds, if not thousands, of customers visit our Discourse forum at forum.seatable.io.
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1yr ago
Fibery
Michael Dubakov
Michael Dubakov
used Discourse to buildFibery
(630 points)
We use Discourse to discuss things with our community (and then bring their feedback to Fibery as well).
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1yr ago
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