Discourse

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Keegan from Discourse tells you literally everything you need to build your community... Learn the exact setup: categories, AI tools, moderation, trust levels, and chat in 8 minutes. Whether you're starting a community or scaling one, this covers it. youtu.be/5daZ_eSVGGA

A strong moderator program is one of the most powerful ways to scale a healthy community. We'll walk you through exactly how to design a program that fits your community’s size, culture, and goals, and how to support moderators so they stay engaged long-term: zoom.us/webinar/regist…

We build software around the idea that long-form conversation beats chat for real thinking - so we started asking why all that thinking was staying inside the company. Here's what happened when we challenged everyone to write publicly. blog.discourse.org/2026/03/how-di…

We started a podcast. First guest is @samsaffron who co-founded Discourse because he believed in the power of online communities. We talked about what AI actually changes in an engineering team, how it unlocks moderation at scale and why trust is paramount... youtu.be/VrP2oP6LvWI

Take a look behind the scenes! Here's how Discourse built a system to roll out product changes without breaking anyone's forum - and why the answer was hiding in the codebase the whole time... blog.discourse.org/2026/03/how-we…

What does it look like to replace social media with forums? We're finding out... youtube.com/watch?v=6DijCr…

The short version of what we believe at Discourse: a community’s language should not be the factor that stops someone from participating in a community... blog.discourse.org/2026/03/every-…

New from Discourse! This month, we're launching the Discourse Podcast with tech writer @jawestenberg We'll be talking with the leading voices in community about the state of the internet, coordinating humans and how we get from here to a better web... More soon!

Discourse offers 3 AI deployment paths: - BYO API key (OpenAI/Anthropic/Google) → fast setup, low switching cost - Managed AI → no keys, no ops; runs open-weight models on Discourse infra (data stays put) - Self-hosted models → full sovereignty + fine-tuning + regulated use cases One-size AI ages badly. Optionality wins. blog.discourse.org/2026/03/three-…

What happens when you swap the scroll for something slower? Keegan from Discourse spent a week off algorithmic social media. No Twitter/X, no Instagram, no TikTok, no LinkedIn feed... youtube.com/watch?v=6DijCr…

What happens when you swap the scroll for something slower? Keegan from Discourse spent a week off algorithmic social media. No Twitter/X, no Instagram, no TikTok, no LinkedIn feed. Instead, he redirected that time to community spaces: forums, Discourse communities with actual conversations, and niche groups where people talk about things they care about... youtu.be/6DijCrwXmuo

Most feature request systems are where ideas go to die. @elfsight built theirs differently - public voting, status tracking, and developer KPIs tied to community-requested releases, all running on Discourse. The result: 700 features shipped so far. blog.discourse.org/2026/02/elfsig…

Category creation on Discourse just got a lot simpler. Fewer fields, better color picker + straightforward access controls. Advanced settings are still available when you need them. Enable in your admin panel under Upcoming Changes! meta.discourse.org/t/simplified-c…

For 5 years, our YAML automation was destroying comments. We sponsored psych-pure to fix it - and now Ruby can preserve comments during programmatic edits. blog.discourse.org/2026/02/how-we…

When @make_hq outgrew their Facebook community, it was time for something new. The fix: move to Discourse and turn scattered conversations into a searchable knowledge hub that works long after the conversation ends… blog.discourse.org/2026/02/make-b…

Credits are up starting now. Check your dashboard, see what's changed, and put them to work! Find out what else we've been up to: meta.discourse.org/latest

If you're running a community on Discourse Free and you've been cautious about the AI tools - summarizing long threads, surfacing related discussions, letting AI handle the repetitive moderation work - now's a good time to stop being cautious and give them a proper run.

We’re increasing the AI credits on Discourse Free. If you've been rationing summarizations or second-guessing whether to use AI search on a thread, that calculation just changed. We’re giving communities more room to actually use the tools the way they're meant to be used. 🧵