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?...
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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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-...
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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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
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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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...
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...
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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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...
Discourse Discover: Building in the Physical World
Three Discourse communities where engineers and tinkerers build real hardware together.
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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
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! 🧵
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
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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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. 🧵
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! 🧵
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...
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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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...
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 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-...
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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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...
Our Discourse Discover: May Roundup is about communities where people build things in public, then turn the difficult parts into shared knowledge... 🧵 1/14
We just made it much easier to create events! The Calendar and Events plugin now has a simplified event creation flow... 🧵
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
“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...
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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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...
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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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
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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Community is easier to build when it solves a painful, urgent problem. Richard Millington explains why “painkiller” communities outperform “vitamin” communities:
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...
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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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...
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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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
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...
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.
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...
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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