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Discourse @discourse.org · 24/09/2026
Discourse Workflows is our new native visual builder that puts routine admin on autopilot! Want to see what’s possible? Watch our launch video and see Workflows in action! youtu.be/Hes9lsc4QYM
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The Ultimate Guide to Discourse Workflows
Are you exhausting yourself managing a growing community by hand? M...
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Discourse @discourse.org · 23/09/2026
Managing a thriving community just got much easier. Today, we’re launching Discourse Workflows, our native visual automation builder. Workflows let you easily chain triggers and actions right inside Discourse. blog.discourse.org/2026/09/int...
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Introducing Discourse Workflows
If your community is drowning in manual work, here's the fix!
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Discourse @discourse.org · 23/09/2026
You can now run your own AI Q&A site on Discourse, the same setup behind ask.discourse.com. If you're on the latest release channel, the settings are already there waiting for you! 🧵 1/9
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Ask Discourse
Instant AI answers for Discourse admins and developers, built on official documentation and years of community expertise.
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Discourse @discourse.org · 17/09/2026
Webinar registrations are open! Discourse Workflows are a new way to build powerful, multi-step automations directly in your community platform. Join us for a complete overview and real-world examples. Secure your spot: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Discourse @discourse.org · 17/09/2026
We know managing multiple chats can feel overwhelming. To help you stay organized and focused on what matters most, we've just rolled out new filter and sort options for your chat channels! 🧵 1/5
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Discourse @discourse.org · 15/09/2026
Discourse Workflows offer a brand-new way to build powerful, multi-step automations directly in your community platform. Join the Workflows webinar this week for a technical overview, real-world examples, and creative ideas to streamline your community management! zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Webinar: Exploring Discourse Workflows
📅 Exploring Discourse Workflows · September 17, 2026 2:00 PM → September 17, 2026 3:00 PM (America/New_York) · https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mCDK7QtXQZ2f9U9pNKlqRg Discourse Workflows are a…
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Discourse @discourse.org · 03/09/2026
The traditional customer support knowledge base is dead. Articles go stale almost immediately. A community-led customer support forum works the exact opposite way: real conversations between real users build a living database... blog.discourse.org/2026/09/how-...
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How to use Discourse for Customer Support
This guide covers how to use Discourse to cut your ticket volume, plus the habits that separate a support community that works from one that doesn’t!
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Discourse @discourse.org · 02/09/2026
Traditional SWEs. Citizen developers. "Vibe coders." Thanks to AI, the lines are blurring fast... Jordan Violet makes a compelling case for how AI is evolving the developer role and creating an entirely new generation of builders... youtu.be/z6tUX2FR9S8
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The Developer's Hierarchy of Needs
Most developer relations programs start in the wrong place. Companies launch communities before their APIs work. They hire developer advocates before the documentation exists. They run events before…
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EmberFest @emberfest.eu · 31/08/2026
Discourse is the 100% open-source platform powering more than 22,000 communities worldwide. We're excited to have them back as Partners this year 🎉 www.discourse.org/open-source
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Open Source
We believe the software that powers online communities should be owned by those communities.
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Discourse @discourse.org · 26/08/2026
🧵 Zoom webinars are now built into Discourse Events, so your community can watch livestreams and join the conversation without leaving Discourse!
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Discourse @discourse.org · 19/08/2026
Discourse AI translates every conversation for every member. It even helps your content rank in other languages! Setup takes one minute. Available now. 🌍 youtu.be/_X4gvX7jogA?...
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What You're Missing: How AI Translations Can Unlock Hidden Insights in Your Discourse Community
Are you accidentally locking out your best experts? If your community only supports a single default language, you might be losing valuable insights every day simply because users don’t have the time…
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Discourse @discourse.org · 18/08/2026
How AMD built a unified developer community on Discourse - one instance with 50+ categories, custom gamification, and deep brand integration serving 5,000+ developers across AI, ROCm, gaming, and enterprise. blog.discourse.org/2026/08/amd-...
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AMD: Building One Developer Community
How AMD built a unified developer community on Discourse - one instance with 50+ categories, custom gamification, and deep brand integration serving 5,000+ developers across AI, ROCm, gaming, and…
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Discourse @discourse.org · 12/08/2026
Want the fast tour of the all-new Discourse admin dashboard? We made a quick walkthrough to get you up to speed - customization, the new sections, drill-downs, and building charts just by asking. Watch it here 👇 youtu.be/Or-zQ_Vf9vQ
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Meet the Redesigned Discourse Admin Dashboard!
The all-new Discourse admin dashboard turns a page of scattered charts into a clear, actionable read on your community - so you can see what's working, spot what needs attention, and show the value…
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Discourse @discourse.org · 12/08/2026
Meet the all-new Discourse admin dashboard! 🧵 We redesigned it around one question: How is my community doing? Now admins can see what’s working, spot what needs attention, and show the value of their community from one clear, actionable view...
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Discourse @discourse.org · 11/08/2026
The all-new Discourse admin dashboard is here. 🎉 We rebuilt it around the one question every admin actually asks: "How is my community doing?" - Clear landing page. - Actionable data. - Customizable from the start. blog.discourse.org/2026/08/intr...
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Introducing the All-New Admin Dashboard
The redesigned Discourse admin dashboard turns a page of scattered charts into a clear, actionable read on your community, so you can see what's working, spot what needs attention, and show the value…
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Discourse @discourse.org · 06/08/2026
Three Discourse communities where engineers and tinkerers build real hardware together! This month on Discourse Discover: find out exactly how leading hardware communities run their forums... blog.discourse.org/2026/08/disc...
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Discourse Discover: Building in the Physical World
Three Discourse communities where engineers and tinkerers build real hardware together.
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Discourse @discourse.org · 23/07/2026
Managing community events gets easier with the Discourse Events plugin. Bundled directly with Discourse core, it brings interactive calendar and event features straight to your community without any separate installation required! 🧵 1/10
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Discourse @discourse.org · 14/07/2026
We're excited to launch the Discourse Free Plan! For more than a decade, Discourse has powered discussions for open-source projects, developer communities, and customer forums at companies like OpenAI, Asana, Atlassian, and Zoom. Now you can spin up a real Discourse for your community! 🧵
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Discourse @discourse.org · 09/07/2026
The latest episode of The Discourse show is live 🎙️ Rosie Sherry built a tech community so tight-knit that members tattooed the logo on their bodies - and bootstrapped it into a movement... We talk community, care, software testing & AI. Watch 👇 youtu.be/etSGDqfREeM
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Building Communities That Last: Rosie Sherry's Journey
Rosie Sherry built a community so tight-knit that members literally tattooed the logo onto their bodies - and bootstrapped it into a $1.2M/year business. In this episode, she shares how she went from…
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Discourse @discourse.org · 08/07/2026
The new reactions popup has landed! We're adding a new reactions popup in chat that makes it easy to see everyone who reacted to a message. 🧵
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Discourse @discourse.org · 04/07/2026
Livestreaming on Discourse just got a cleaner, more unified home. The Livestream plugin has now been folded into the Events plugin, which means communities can manage livestreams, virtual events, and in-person events from one place! 🧵
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Discourse @discourse.org · 03/07/2026
Wrapping up June with our latest Discover roundup! Find out how some of the world's leading tech brands embrace forums for support and knowledge sharing: blog.discourse.org/2026/07/dis...
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Discourse Discover: How Top Tech Brands Run Their Communities)
Welcome to our Discover Roundup, where we highlight communities doing creative and inspiring things with Discourse!
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Discourse @discourse.org · 23/06/2026
Tech writer JA Westenberg is tracking down the world's best community architects to figure out what actually works in 2026. One of the biggest lessons so far: Stop obsessing over ROI. Belonging is the product. Everything else is just a byproduct. blog.discourse.org/2026/06/im-t...
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I’m tracking down the world’s best community builders. Here’s what I’ve learned so far...
We’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...
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Discourse @discourse.org · 18/06/2026
Discourse co-CEO Hawk on running a fully remote company: AI should surface what actually needs a leader's attention - without becoming an authority, a surveillance camera, or a substitute for trust. blog.discourse.org/2026/06/how-...
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How I use AI as the co-CEO of a remote company
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,…
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Discourse @discourse.org · 17/06/2026
GIFs are moving into Discourse core! 🧵
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Discourse @discourse.org · 11/06/2026
When Netwrix brought scattered user communities into one place, Discourse's multilingual support broke down the language barriers, turning the forum into a knowledge hub that works for every customer, everywhere. blog.discourse.org/2026/06/netw...
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Discourse @discourse.org · 09/06/2026
Our Discourse Discover: May Roundup is about communities where people build things in public, then turn the difficult parts into shared knowledge... 🧵 1/14
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Discourse @discourse.org · 03/06/2026
We just made it much easier to create events! The Calendar and Events plugin now has a simplified event creation flow... 🧵
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Discourse @discourse.org · 02/06/2026
Discourse is not going closed source. Here's why. 🧵
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Discourse @discourse.org · 29/05/2026
Recurring events just got easier to manage in Discourse! Members can now choose whether they’re RSVPing to the next occurrence only, or to the event and all future occurrences. That gives organizers a clearer attendee list, and gives members better control over reminders. 🧵 1/8
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Discourse @discourse.org · 29/05/2026
“Community manager” makes the work sound like moderation, tickets, rules, and admin. “Community architect” gets much closer. Are people walking into a library, an aquarium, a conference, or a carnival? youtube.com/shorts/K9WN...
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Why Communities Need Architects, Not Managers
What if building a community online worked more like designing a physical space?Paz Pisarski explains why she prefers the term “community architect” over “co...
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Discourse @discourse.org · 27/05/2026
The best community forums make room for WIP, beginner questions, strange edge cases, failed attempts, and working answers. It's where the (most) useful knowledge comes from. More in our May Discover roundup: blog.discourse.org/2026/05/dis...
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Discourse Discover: May Roundup
This month’s Discover Roundup highlights communities where people build things in public, then turn the hard parts into shared knowledge!
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Discourse @discourse.org · 26/05/2026
A useful question for community builders: Are you designing for content, or are you designing for connection? New episode of the Discourse podcast with Paz Pisarski on community, belonging, trust, and the hidden curriculum behind great communities! youtu.be/wwv1x3U1xr0
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The Hidden Curriculum of Community Building: Connection First
What does it really take to build a community where people feel like they belong?In this episode, JA speaks with Paz Pisarski about the hidden curriculum of ...
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Discourse @discourse.org · 23/05/2026
Community is easier to build when it solves a painful, urgent problem. Richard Millington explains why “painkiller” communities outperform “vitamin” communities:
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Discourse @discourse.org · 22/05/2026
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. blog.discourse.org/2026/05/dis...
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Discourse is Agent Ready: Here’s How
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.
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Discourse @discourse.org · 21/05/2026
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. blog.discourse.org/2026/05/dis...
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Discourse Will Never Block You From the Web
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.
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Discourse @discourse.org · 19/05/2026
Reddit just started blocking access to mobile users, demanding they download the app before they can keep reading. There is no “continue to site” and no way around it. It’s just a wall. We want to be clear: Discourse will never do this. Here's why 🧵 1/11
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Discourse @discourse.org · 19/05/2026
We’ve added a new “Me too” button to unsolved topics in support categories 🧵 When a member finds a topic describing an issue they’re also experiencing, they can now click “Me too” to indicate they’re impacted...
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Discourse @discourse.org · 15/05/2026
Discourse just consolidated tag management! 🧵 Every tag operation on selected topics now lives inside a single Manage Tags modal, replacing the three separate buttons that used to clutter the bulk actions menu.
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Discourse @discourse.org · 07/05/2026
Are social platforms doomed to be overrun by bots? And is the dead internet theory already inevitable? We don't think so. Discourse CEO Hawk explains why. blog.discourse.org/2026/05/the...
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The Digg Lesson: Why Moderation Infrastructure Matters
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 that’s the case.
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Discourse @discourse.org · 04/05/2026
This is the real-world experience of the AI translation feature we shipped in 2025… Exactly what it’s like to use Discourse in another language. blog.discourse.org/2026/05/wha...
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What It's Actually Like to Use Discourse in Another Language
The real-world experience of the AI translation feature we shipped in 2025
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Discourse @discourse.org · 24/04/2026
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.
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Discourse @discourse.org · 21/04/2026
Episode 3 of the Discourse podcast! We're talking to Richard Millington about community, psychology, brand and what it means to bring humans together... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cob...
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Richard Millington on Community
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Discourse @discourse.org · 20/04/2026
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/cas...
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Case Study: How We Gave Brand Loyalty a Community
A high-end lingerie brand found in malls across America needed a new loyalty program: a tiered system offering perks and rewards for increasing customer engagement
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Discourse @discourse.org · 17/04/2026
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/dis...
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Discourse is Not Going Closed Source
Cal.com just closed their source code, arguing AI has made open source too dangerous. After 13 years of building Discourse in public, we're staying open. Here's why.
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Discourse @discourse.org · 09/04/2026
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...
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How Jennifer Aniston and Friends Cost Us 377GB and Broke ext4 Hardlinks
One reaction GIF. Used constantly in posts, PMs, everywhere. Each use in a different security context creates a new copy. 246,173 copies of Rachel from Friends doing a happy dance.
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Discourse @discourse.org · 09/04/2026
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...
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Discourse @discourse.org · 08/04/2026
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. #webbys
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Discourse @discourse.org · 01/04/2026
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/bui...
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Building for Every Language
The second post in the Discourse Without Borders series.
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Discourse @discourse.org · 31/03/2026
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 🧵
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