Blog | Discourse × About What is Discourse? Who we are Customers Wall of love Partners Careers Features Discover Enterprise Pricing Resources Get started Blog Learn about the powerful, open source community platform. Tags agentic agents ai brand case study coding community community management culture data-sovereignty design dev discover discovery enterprise freecodecamp getting started godot hardware infrastructure install internet linux llms loyalty make marketing moderation multilingual n8n online community open web open-source partners people portability preferences product-management reddit remote work ruby search security seo spam success stories swag technology tools updates use cases ux wishlist writing 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 to your team. Discourse Team Aug 10, 2026 • 4 min read discover Discourse Discover: Building in the Physical World Three Discourse communities where engineers and tinkerers build real hardware together. Discourse Team Aug 5, 2026 • 2 min read Introducing the Discourse Free Plan 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. Discourse Team Jul 14, 2026 • 3 min read discover 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! Discourse Team Jul 2, 2026 • 2 min read I’m tracking down the world’s best community builders. Here’s what I’ve learned so far... 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... JA Westenberg Jun 23, 2026 • 4 min read ai 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, judge, and never use it to assess people or replace trust. Hawk Jun 18, 2026 • 5 min read case study Netwrix: Removing Language Barriers Across a Global Product Community 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. Discourse Team Jun 10, 2026 • 4 min read discover 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! Discourse Team May 27, 2026 • 2 min read ai 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. Discourse Team May 21, 2026 • 4 min read reddit 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. Jake Goldsborough May 19, 2026 • 3 min read internet 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. Hawk May 7, 2026 • 8 min read multilingual What It's Actually Like to Use Discourse in Another Language The real-world experience of the AI translation feature we shipped in 2025 Natalie Tay May 4, 2026 • 9 min read discover Discourse Discover: Hobbyist Edition A unicycling forum with newsgroup roots, a miniature house community where builders troubleshoot each other's glue work, and a flight sim whose members run their own ATC; three forums running on the generous, specific expertise that makes Discourse special. Discourse Team Apr 29, 2026 • 3 min read case study 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 Discourse Team Apr 20, 2026 • 4 min read open-source 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. Sam Saffron Apr 16, 2026 • 8 min read coding 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. Jake Goldsborough Apr 9, 2026 • 4 min read Building for Every Language The second post in the Discourse Without Borders series. Natalie Tay Mar 31, 2026 • 8 min read discover Discourse Discover: Communities where builders learn together This month's Discover Roundup looks at three communities where builders show up with real projects, hit real problems, and get real help from the people who know. Discourse Team Mar 24, 2026 • 2 min read writing How Discourse Is Becoming a Community of Writers 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. Mae Woods Mar 16, 2026 • 5 min read How We Built the Upcoming Changes System for Gradual Product Rollouts in Discourse 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. Martin Brennan Mar 10, 2026 • 9 min read Every Language is Welcome A first post in the Discourse Without Borders series. Natalie Tay Mar 5, 2026 • 3 min read ai Three Ways to Deploy AI in Community Platforms (and Why Choice Matters) Most platforms lock operators into a single AI integration; Discourse takes a different approach, offering three distinct deployment paths so communities can choose the model, provider, and level of control that actually fits their needs. Falco Mar 2, 2026 • 5 min read case study Elfsight: How a Wishlist Category Shaped 700 Feature Releases How Elfsight turned their Discourse community into a structured product feedback engine - and shipped over 700 features that started as a customer request. Discourse Team Feb 24, 2026 • 4 min read ruby How We Fixed YAML Comment Preservation in Ruby (And Why We Sponsored It) Discourse solved a five-year infrastructure headache by sponsoring psych-pure, a Ruby YAML library that preserves comments through programmatic edits - keeping years of hard-won institutional knowledge intact. Jake Goldsborough Feb 20, 2026 • 3 min read case study Make: Building a Community-Powered Knowledge Hub with Discourse When the automation platform Integromat became Make, they moved their thriving Facebook community to Discourse to create a searchable, durable knowledge hub that serves users far beyond real-time conversation. Discourse Team Feb 17, 2026 • 6 min read Built with love, Internet style Features & Pricing Pricing Features Plugins Chat Discourse AI Migrations Integrations API Discourse Hub Company What is Discourse? Who we are Open Source Customers Wall of love Partners Careers Blog Community & Support Ask Discourse Discover Demo Sandbox Contact us Releases Compare vs. Discord vs. Khoros vs. Reddit vs. Slack vs. Vanilla Legal Legal Terms & Notices Privacy Information Copyright Policy Accessibility Status Sales Tax Referral Promotion Terms Content is by-nc-sa, Discourse® and Discourse Forum™ Copyright © 2026 Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc. All rights reserved.