The Discourse dashboard has always given admins a lot of data to work with - and we're proud of how transparent we've made it. But communities have grown, and the ways people measure them have changed; so we took the chance to bring all of
Three Discourse communities where engineers and tinkerers build real hardware together. Welcome to the Discover Roundup. Every month, we spotlight communities pushing the limits of what's possible on Discourse. This month, we’re focusing on…
The same platform that powers the world's leading tech communities is now yours for $0 - with unlimited members, unlimited chat, and a frictionless experience. Today, we're excited to launch a free plan for Discourse. For more than a decade…
This month's theme: world-leading tech brands running their communities on Discourse. HubSpot, Roku, and OpenAI each reach millions of customers, and they've invested in forums where those customers learn from each other alongside official
I’ve spent this year talking to some of the people at the coalface of community in 2026: here's what’s working, what’s not, and where "community" is going... In 2021, Paz Pisarski asked her network whether anyone else who builds communities…
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…
When Netwrix consolidated scattered user bases into a single community, Discourse's AI-powered multilingual support turned language-locked silos into a knowledge hub that works in every region. Netwrix builds data and identity security prod…
This month’s Discover Roundup highlights communities where people build things in public, then turn the hard parts into shared knowledge! Welcome to our Discover Roundup, where we highlight communities doing creative and inspiring things wi…
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. The audience for forums is changing. Some of your readers aren't
Reddit is pushing mobile users out of the browser and into its app because apps give platforms more control, more data, and more ways to monetise attention. Discourse takes the opposite position. Reddit has now started forcing its mobile us…
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 t…
The real-world experience of the AI translation feature we shipped in 2025 This is what it looks like when you open https://meta.discourse.org (our public community for Discourse) in a browser set to Japanese. The welcome banner reads "Disc…