Major congrats on the community! We wholeheartedly agree with your conclusions.
Chat is great for focused, ephemeral discussions. For large-scale communities the truly asynchronous forum model scales better and is not dependent on compatible timezones.
After 4 years of running a (11,000 member) public Slack community for
@TryGhost
— today we’ve decided to shut the whole thing down for good.
I’ve got a few interesting observations to share from the experience, and what we’re moving to now instead.
And so beginneth the thread:
Thanks to the amazing work done by
@letsencrypt
we can now enable SSL on all our customer's sites for free. Getting there was quite the journey though, so read on if you want the deets.
We are offering 3 months free on our Business and Standard plans to schools that are being forced to close due to Covid-19.
Contact us on team
@discourse
.org for more information.
After leading our company for the last decade, Jeff Atwood has decided to step down as Chief Executive Officer and assume the role of Executive Chairman.
✨ Discourse for Teams is here! Starting today, you can get your own private, focused (and affordable) version of Discourse.
Get details and spin up a 30 day free trial at .
We've identified the issue and have already restored service for most of the affected Business sites. We are working to restore service for the remaining sites as quickly as possible 🛠
💖 Discourse 2.4 is released! Featuring hardware security key support, a revamped user menu, tag synonyms, pie graph polls with data export, and so much more! Upgrade today for the low, low price of 🆓!
We are doing a soft re-launch of our free hosting for open source projects.
Notable changes are:
- Open to all OSS projects, not just GitHub
- No star requirement
- All new sites will live on the *.discourse.group domain.
We have an exciting
#announcement
!! Discourse Chat is now available to everyone as an open beta 🎉. There’s plenty more to do, but we’re SO excited to start sharing it with more of you now.
We're excited to announce the release of Discourse 3.0 with chat, a customizable sidebar, and an easier setup wizard for new communities 🎉
It's been 9 years since we launched Discourse 1.0! 🎂
We're thrilled to share this latest milestone with you 🎊
Between 2018 and 2019, we contributed over $100,000 to open source projects and individuals that we rely on ✨
Here's to great free & open source software for everyone!
New ✨ in Discourse 2.3 beta! Experienced users and staff will see a friendly little nudge next to first posts by new users, and returning posts of users who have been inactive for more than two months.
Looking to promote more thoughtful, considered replies in a heated discussion?
Try Slow Mode ⏳
When Staff or TL4 users set slow mode for a topic, every user must wait for a configurable time interval before they can post again.
As a remote team we don’t see each other much, so once a year we come together for an all-expenses-paid week. This year we met up in
#Copenhagen
. After two years of not being able to see each other, this week felt extra special!!🤗
We're working on a unified review queue for Discourse 2.3 later in 2019. This opens up the possibility of category specific moderators, and more community moderation in general! 🙌
\1 Now, more than ever, students need opportunities to sustain their learning. That’s why we designed a new kind of remote internship for students to work on real-world projects. Introducing the MLH Fellowship, powered by GitHub. 🟩
@MLHacks
#MLHFellowship
We're pleased to sponsor
@opensrcdesign
! A great organisation and global movement that's doing pioneering work for
#opensource
in
#design
which is still a chiefly proprietary practice 😿 You can support them too:
New ✨ in Discourse 2.1 beta! The Discourse setup wizard now lets you choose from 6 different color themes, no longer merely "dark" or "light" -- run it any time safely at /wizard ! 🧙♂️
Me: "Have you heard of
@discourse
?"
Them: *thinks about
@discord
*
Them: "Oh yeah! My kid uses it all the time!"
Me: 😅
It's a common mix-up, but we're thrilled Discord and Discourse actually work quite well together.
Big congrats and thanks to every participant in our color scheme contest! 🌈🎨🎉
A more advanced theme contest will be announced in a few weeks, so stay tuned!
We're proud to announce that Discourse is officially part of the Fair Play Alliance:
"We envision a world where games are free of harassment, discrimination, and abuse, and where players can express themselves through play."
#civilizeddiscussion
ftw!
New✨in latest Discourse! You can now search existing topics when hyperlinking directly from the composer! Search results include information about categories, tags and topic status (closed/solved/pinned and so on) to give you all the context you need 🔍
Our musings on best practices for communities that are combining chat (ephemeral) and forum (permanent) discussions, as they should!
Got some interesting workflows to share? Using something other than Slack? We'd love to hear from you!
✨ new in latest Discourse beta!
Trying to remember a conversation you saw recently? 🤔 Visit /my/activity/read on your user profile to see a list of the last topics you've visited!
✨We're looking to hire a full-time designer.
You must be very comfortable working in HTML & CSS. While not required, it would be nice if you had some JavaScript experience and are located somewhere within the UTC -1 to +5 timezones.
The DDOS fight is on again. We will be doing our best to mitigate and respond to the attacks. We are aware that customers are experiencing unresponsive forums and sincerely apologize for the inconvenience. Stay tuned for updates.
Did you know you could collaborate on a topic before publishing it? ⌨️
Discourse has the ability to designate a category for Shared Drafts where you can pre-compose topics with other staff members.
Discourse being free and open source community software gives you the most powerful position possible:
🔘The ability to choose
From 🏠hosting location to 🔍privacy, you have the choice on what's best for your community.
Currently in the process of being formally tested and made official: an optional theme component that automatically detects unformatted code and logs in Discourse posts! See