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6/6 These defaults come from how we run the Feature category on Meta and they're not law, so if the setup feels wrong for your community, tell us what's missing. Full write-up with screenshots: meta.discourse.org/t/easily-creat…

5/6 It's experimental, so you opt in per site: Admin → Upcoming changes → "Enable idea category type setup." Flip it on and try it on a test category first.

1/6 Great feature ideas die in a few places: buried in chat, lost in support tickets, drowned out by whoever emails you most, or forgotten between planning meetings. We made it easier to stop that.

Episode 3 of the Discourse podcast! We're talking to Richard Millington about community, psychology, brand and what it means to bring humans together... youtube.com/watch?v=CobPX1…

This week's case study - what started as a conventional points program now operates as a community-led experience that drives ongoing engagement, connection, and long-term value... blog.discourse.org/2026/04/case-s…

After 13 years of building Discourse in public, we're excited to announce: we're staying open. Discourse has always and will always be open source. Here's why. blog.discourse.org/2026/04/discou…

A GIF of Rachel from Friends doing a happy dance was duplicated 246,173 times on one Discourse site. 1.6 MB became 377 GB of backup bloat and broke a filesystem limit. Turns out Jennifer Aniston can stress-test infrastructure: blog.discourse.org/2026/04/how-je…

7/7 Find out more here: meta.discourse.org/t/embed-discou…

6/7 If you're running a blog on top of Discourse, this probably solves the single biggest friction point for reader engagement. No more "click here to join the discussion" links that lose half your audience in the redirect!

1/7 Discourse's embed system has let you show forum comments on your blog for years. One catch: it was read-only. Visitors could see the discussion but had to click through to your Discourse site to actually participate. That just changed...

Our new website is a Webby Honoree for 2025! We're incredibly proud of the design team at Discourse and the hard work they've put into this. @TheWebbyAwards #webbys

If you're a history buff, this is the blog post for you. We cover how multilingual support at Discourse evolved over 13 years - with some honest behind the scenes! blog.discourse.org/2026/03/buildi…

PR #38768 is now merged into discourse/discourse main. If you run a Discourse community, your solved topics should now have much clearer structured data signals for Google's rich result eligibility! github.com/discourse/disc…

It took 10 commits across the week - from initial schema injection to cleaning up answerCount logic, filtering by visible posts, refactoring schema utils, and incorporating great feedback from our reviewers. Open source is a team sport.

Just shipped a feature we're proud of for Discourse - solved schema markup for solution posts. Here's what we did and why it matters for SEO 🧵