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We make it easy to have meaningful conversations and collaborate anytime, anywhere. Status: @DiscourseStatus Mastodon: @Discourse @mastodon .social

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@discourse
Discourse
3 years
Is your site hosted with us at ? Follow @DiscourseStatus for status updates/downtime notifications!
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@discourse
Discourse
8 years
We just merged in Ember 2.10, great work from the @emberjs team -- expect 30% smaller app download size and 2x app speed improvement!
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@discourse
Discourse
6 years
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.
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John O'Nolan
6 years
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:
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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.
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The Discourse team works remotely, from many different time zones across the world:
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@discourse
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6 years
Come and get your brand new Discourse 2.0, hot off the presses! Check out the nifty new features:
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4 years
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.
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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.
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@discourse
Discourse
6 years
Discourse 2.0 will arrive in two days! 🐣
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@discourse
Discourse
11 years
HOWTO: Discourse as Your First Rails App http://t.co/fUcnKRld0B
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@discourse
Discourse
4 years
✨ 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 .
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@discourse
Discourse
7 years
Looking to found a new Discourse instance? Digital Ocean just reduced their price for a basic Discourse compatible VPS to $5/month!
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Discourse
6 years
New ✨ in Discourse 2.0 beta! A redesigned dashboard with key community metrics at your fingertips 👌
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@discourse
Discourse
5 years
We are experiencing a network outage on some of our hosted sites, our team is on it!
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Discourse
6 years
✨New in Discourse 2.0 beta! Built in super secure two factor login support for everyone! Simply enable it in your user preferences:
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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 🛠
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@discourse
Discourse
4 years
💖 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 🆓!
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@discourse
Discourse
6 years
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.
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@discourse
Discourse
8 years
🎇Discourse 1.7 released 🎇-- improved summary emails, setup wizard, native iOS + Android apps, and so much more!
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@discourse
Discourse
7 years
✨NEW in Discourse 1.8 beta! Users can select their own personal favorite color theme in their user preferences! 🌚🌝
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@discourse
Discourse
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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.
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@discourse
Discourse
8 years
We have official permission from Microsoft to include their great new Windows 10 Anniversary emoji set in Discourse!
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Discourse
2 years
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 🎊
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@discourse
Discourse
7 years
We released Discourse 1.9 last week, check out all the cool 😎 new features and improvements!
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@discourse
Discourse
4 years
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!
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@discourse
Discourse
5 years
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.
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@discourse
Discourse
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Discourse 2.2 is here, with improved mobile and desktop UI, lazy image loading, full CSP, revamped theming, and so much more 💖
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@discourse
Discourse
4 years
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.
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@discourse
Discourse
7 years
A behind-the-scenes look at how we went from idea to the new that's live today.
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@discourse
Discourse
7 years
✨ New in Discourse 1.9 beta: paste in HTML or Excel tables, and they automatically convert to native Markdown formatting!
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@discourse
Discourse
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🎉 Discourse 2.3 is released today, with a new unified flag/review system, staff annotations, ignore, unicode usernames and so much more!
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@discourse
Discourse
4 years
🎉Discourse 2.5 is released! Featuring reminders and descriptions for bookmarks, multiple user invite links, static page publishing, and so much more!
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@discourse
Discourse
6 years
Do you like Emoji 11.0? Sure you do! New in latest Discourse 2.1 beta, please enjoy access to the following Emoji, hot off the Unicode Presses!
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@discourse
Discourse
6 years
Discourse 2.1 is released today! Check out all the 🆒 new features and enhancements 😎
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@discourse
Discourse
5 years
New ✨ in latest Discourse for users that love emojis! You can now use larger emojis by posting them on a new line 🆒
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@discourse
Discourse
2 years
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!!🤗
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Discourse
6 years
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! 🙌
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@discourse
Discourse
6 years
Anyone with $50 or more in monthly patronage on @Patreon can now get free hosting on our *.discourse.group service, or 50% off our regular hosting.
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@discourse
Discourse
7 years
We suddenly grew to 20 members in 2017!
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Discourse
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Are you ready for Discourse 2.1? It arrives Monday! 🙌
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6 years
New ✨ in Discourse 2.0 beta! Your polls can now be time limited -- vote before time runs out!
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@discourse
Discourse
7 years
We are proud to note that, via version check pings, there are over 10,000 active Discourse instances today! Thanks for Discoursing! 💬🤠
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@discourse
Discourse
3 years
We're hiring again – this time for a Technical Advocate. If you love Discourse and you'd like to join our mission, you can check out the details at
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@discourse
Discourse
4 years
We are so excited to be working with @MLHacks & @github this summer! Can’t wait to see all the amazing contributions the MLH Fellows will be making to @discourse #MLHFellowship
@GitHubEducation
GitHub Education
4 years
\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
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Discourse
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✨ NEW in Discourse 2.0 beta -- insert a date/time into a post which is automagically translated to the reader's local time!
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@discourse
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8 years
@FrostbiteEngine gave us some lovely praise in an internal presentation. Much <3!
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@discourse
Discourse
7 years
"The Discourse Encouragement Fund" is our way of compensating contributors from our community for their efforts.
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@discourse
Discourse
10 years
Brace Yourselves. V1.0 Is Coming. http://t.co/lchBerxJaa
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@discourse
Discourse
6 years
👶 Discourse 2.2 will be released at the end of January! Get ready for fantastic new features, improved UI, and enhanced security
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@discourse
Discourse
4 years
Static pages are here!
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@discourse
Discourse
7 years
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:
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Discourse
6 years
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 ! 🧙‍♂️
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@discourse
Discourse
7 years
🎂Four years of Discourse! 🎇 And many more to come..
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@discourse
Discourse
8 years
📯 Discourse 1️⃣.6️⃣ is released! Check out all the new ✨ features:
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Discourse
6 years
New ✨ in Discourse 2.1! Now you can see all your saved draft replies on your user profile, under Activity / Drafts, thanks to @pmusaraj !
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@discourse
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We are super psyched to announce the brand new 🎉🎉🎉 BIG ups to @krisaubuchon for the #redesign .
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@discourse
Discourse
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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.
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@discourse
Discourse
9 years
You can now select Discourse as a pre-installed application on Digital Ocean! http://t.co/3bqKljlKAH
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@discourse
Discourse
6 years
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!
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@discourse
Discourse
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Welcome to Discourse @Pebble ! Here's to keeping your passionate users happy as ever.
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@discourse
Discourse
6 years
The Shoryuken forum, a decade long fixture in the fighting games world, has migrated to Discourse!
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@discourse
Discourse
6 years
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!
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@discourse
Discourse
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✨ New in Discourse 2.5 beta 3! Enable the "show copy button on codeblocks" site setting to get a copy button on all posted code blocks 👩‍💻👨‍💻
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@discourse
Discourse
5 years
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 🔍
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@discourse
Discourse
5 years
New in the latest Discourse 2.4 beta 6! Support for physical hardware 🔑 security keys, in addition to previous support for authenticator apps!
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@discourse
Discourse
6 years
Discourse is participating in @outreachy summer. Know someone awesome who might be eligible for this 3 month internship? Please tell them about us!
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@discourse
Discourse
6 years
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!
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@discourse
Discourse
5 years
ℹ️ Tired of trying to upload images that are too large for posts? Try our composer resizing feature that ships with Discourse 2.3 🖼️
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@discourse
Discourse
5 years
New ✨ in Discourse 2.3 beta! On mobile, tapping a user icon now brings up a handy user card rather than jumping you to the full user page.
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@discourse
Discourse
10 years
Testing out our new Discourse E-Z themer using the only sensible color scheme, Hot Dog Stand. http://t.co/aGwKC8VB2l
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@discourse
Discourse
7 years
We've released official Discourse API documentation! ✨
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@discourse
Discourse
9 years
Some detail on how we host (and scale) Discourse on our servers: http://t.co/QnN5gRUNgC
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@discourse
Discourse
3 years
✨ 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!
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@discourse
Discourse
7 years
✨ new in Discourse 1.9 beta! See when someone else is replying at the same time you are, courtesy of
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@discourse
Discourse
5 years
✨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.
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@discourse
Discourse
8 years
We are beta testing iOS and Android apps for Discourse 1.7 beta:
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@discourse
Discourse
6 years
Discourse 2.0 is coming soon -- planned release at the end of May! 🎉
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@discourse
Discourse
7 years
👶Discourse 1.9 will be released in the next few days, get ready for great new features and enhancements!
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@discourse
Discourse
5 years
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.
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@discourse
Discourse
6 years
✨New in Discourse 2.0 beta! While composing a reply, click or tap the reply arrow to select different reply types!
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@discourse
Discourse
6 years
New ✨ in Discourse 2.0 beta! Responsive advanced search panel that better uses extra width on desktop / laptop / tablet
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@discourse
Discourse
8 years
✨📱✨Our official iOS Discourse app is now available on the app store!
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@discourse
Discourse
9 years
Discourse 1.3 released! Anonymous mode, OS notifications, mute, better polls, post approvals and so much more! http://t.co/o9BMEonaRC
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@discourse
Discourse
6 years
New ✨ in Discourse 2.1 beta! Staff can now choose to post a reply without bumping the topic. Click or tap the reply arrow to choose.
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@discourse
Discourse
4 years
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.
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Discourse
6 years
New ✨ in Discourse 2.1 beta -- an improved layout for inline search, matching categories, tags, users, and topics!
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@discourse
Discourse
7 years
We released Discourse 1.9 today -- -- fuller blog post to come next week, but get those bits while they're fresh from the oven! 🤠💬
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@discourse
Discourse
3 years
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.
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@discourse
Discourse
9 years
at Discourse we ❤️ Emoji! 😂
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@discourse
Discourse
7 years
New in Discourse 1.9 beta -- we're previewing a brand new, simpler editor look! 😍
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@discourse
Discourse
3 years
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
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