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https://blog.discourse.org/2026/04/how-jennifer-aniston-and-friends-cost-us-377gb-and-broke-ext4-hardlinks/

· 6mo ago

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:

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· 6mo ago

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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https://blog.discourse.org/2026/05/the-digg-lesson-why-moderation-infrastructure-matters/

· 5mo ago

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.

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https://blog.discourse.org/2026/02/how-we-fixed-yaml-comment-preservation-in-ruby-and-why-we-sponsored-it/

· 7mo ago

For 5 years, our YAML automation was destroying comments. We sponsored psych-pure to fix it - and now Ruby can preserve comments during programmatic edits.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DijCrwXmuo

· 7mo ago

What does it look like to replace social media with forums?

We're finding out...

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https://blog.discourse.org/2026/03/building-for-every-language/

· 6mo ago

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!

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https://blog.discourse.org/2026/03/how-we-built-the-upcoming-changes-system-for-gradual-product-rollouts-in-discourse/

· 7mo ago

Take a look behind the scenes!

Here's 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...

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https://blog.discourse.org/2026/03/every-language-is-welcome/

· 7mo ago

The short version of what we believe at Discourse: a community’s language should not be the factor that stops someone from participating in a community...

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· 7mo ago

New from Discourse...

This month, we're launching the Discourse Podcast with tech writer JA Westenberg!

We'll be talking with the leading voices in community about the state of the internet, coordinating humans and how we get from here to a better web.

More soon.

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https://meta.discourse.org/t/simplified-category-setup/394971

· 7mo ago

Category creation on Discourse just got a lot simpler. Fewer fields, better color picker + straightforward access controls. Advanced settings are still available when you need them. Enable in your admin panel under Upcoming Changes!

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https://blog.discourse.org/2026/02/make-building-a-community-powered-knowledge-hub-with-discourse/

· 7mo ago

Make outgrew their Facebook community. The fix: move to Discourse and turn scattered conversations into a searchable knowledge hub that works long after the conversation ends…

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https://blog.discourse.org/2026/03/discourse-discover-communities-where-builders-learn-together/

· 6mo ago

Our latest Discourse Discover roundup is live!

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...

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https://blog.discourse.org/2026/03/how-discourse-is-becoming-a-community-of-writers/

· 6mo ago

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.

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https://youtu.be/VrP2oP6LvWI

· 7mo ago

We started a podcast.

First guest is Sam Saffron who co-founded Discourse because he believed in the power of online communities.

We talked about what AI actually changes in an engineering team, how it unlocks moderation at scale and why trust is paramount...

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https://blog.discourse.org/2026/03/three-ways-to-deploy-ai-in-community-platforms-and-why-choice-matters/

· 7mo ago

Discourse offers 3 AI deployment paths:

- BYO API key (OpenAI/Anthropic/Google) → fast setup, low switching cost

- Managed AI → no keys, no ops; runs open-weight models on Discourse infra (data stays put)

- Self-hosted models → full sovereignty + fine-tuning + regulated use cases

One-size AI ages badly. Optionality wins.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DijCrwXmuo

· 7mo ago

What happens when you swap the scroll for something slower?

Keegan from Discourse spent a week off algorithmic social media. No Twitter/X, no Instagram, no TikTok, no LinkedIn feed...

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· 5mo ago

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6/6 These defaults come from how we run the Feature category on Meta and they're not law, so if the setup feels wrong for your community, tell us what's missing. Full write-up with screenshots: https://meta.discourse.org/t/easily-create-ideas-categories-using-the-topic-voting-plugin/399365

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· 5mo ago

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5/6 It's experimental, so you opt in per site: Admin → Upcoming changes → "Enable idea category type setup." Flip it on and try it on a test category first.

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https://blog.discourse.org/2026/04/case-stuhow-we-gave-brand-loyalty-a-community/

· 5mo ago

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...

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· 6mo ago

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7/7 Find out more here: https://meta.discourse.org/t/embed-discourse-as-a-full-comment-system-on-your-site/399743?u=rishabh

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· 6mo ago

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2/7 We've shipped full app mode for embeds! The iframe now loads the complete Discourse UI. Your blog readers can reply, like, and quote posts without ever leaving your site.

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· 6mo ago

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PR #38768 is now merged into discourse/discourse main. If you run a Discourse community, your solved topics should now have much clearer structured data signals for Google's rich result eligibility! https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/38768

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· 6mo ago

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2/ Composer 2.0 gets a toolbar redesign. You can now start a checkbox list directly from the composer toolbar, and check off items in the rich text editor before posting. No more switching to Markdown mode just to tick a box.

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· 6mo ago

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4/ Admin reporting is getting a revamp. We’re redesigning the layout and organization of admin reports, including a new stacked chart and cleaner overall structure. Admins can test it out now by toggling on the reporting improvements upcoming change.

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· 6mo ago

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3/ We’ve added a Chat tab to category settings. Admins can now see which chat channels are associated with a category at a glance, and jump straight to the channel settings. A small change that makes the relationship between categories and chat much clearer.

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· 6mo ago

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5/ More to come. We’re shipping incremental improvements across the board and would love your feedback! https://meta.discourse.org/c/news-and-events/207

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· 7mo ago

We’re increasing the AI credits on Discourse Free. If you've been rationing summarizations or second-guessing whether to use AI search on a thread, that calculation just changed.

We’re giving communities more room to actually use the tools the way they're meant to be used. 🧵

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· 6mo ago

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The problem: Discourse's solved plugin was already using QAPage schema in JSON-LD for solved topics. But the page markup itself still used DiscussionForumPosting - sending *conflicting signals* to search engines. Not great.

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· 6mo ago

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6/7 If you're running a blog on top of Discourse, this probably solves the single biggest friction point for reader engagement. No more "click here to join the discussion" links that lose half your audience in the redirect!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPXNK2QBT_8

· 6mo ago

New on YouTube: our co-CEO Hawk on the state of online communities.

We dig into what's going wrong with digital spaces, how the attention economy shapes community culture, why open source infrastructure matters for community builders, and what sustainable stewardship actually looks like in practice...

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· 5mo ago

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4/6 There's also a new "Limit member votes" setting. Cap how many votes each person gets, or switch the limit off entirely. Some communities want scarcity because it forces people to pick their real favourites, others want a free-for-all, and both are fine.

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· 6mo ago

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✅ Solution post → gets acceptedAnswer from the Answer schema
💬 All other posts → get suggestedAnswer
❓ All posts in a solved topic → get mainEntity from the Question schema

Clean, consistent + standards-compliant.

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· 6mo ago

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It took 10 commits across the week - from initial schema injection to cleaning up answerCount logic, filtering by visible posts, refactoring schema utils, and incorporating great feedback from our reviewers. Open source is a team sport.

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https://blog.discourse.org/2026/02/elfsight-how-a-wishlist-category-shaped-700-feature-releases/

· 7mo ago

Most feature request systems are where ideas go to die. Elfsight built theirs differently - public voting, status tracking, and developer KPIs tied to community-requested releases, all running on Discourse. The result: 700 features shipped so far.

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· 4mo ago

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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https://youtu.be/6DijCrwXmuo

· 7mo ago

What happens when you swap the scroll for something slower?

Keegan from Discourse spent a week off algorithmic social media. No Twitter/X, no Instagram, no TikTok, no LinkedIn feed. Instead, he redirected that time to community spaces: forums, Discourse communities with actual conversations, and niche groups where people talk about things they care about...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CobPX1Sra0s

· 5mo ago

Episode 3 of the Discourse podcast!

We're talking to Richard Millington about community, psychology, brand and what it means to bring humans together...

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· 5mo ago

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2/6 When you create a new category on Discourse, there's now a dedicated "Ideas" type. Pick it, and we handle the Topic Voting plugin setup with working defaults, so you skip the plugin hunt and the 12-checkbox settings page.

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https://blog.discourse.org/2026/05/what-its-actually-like-to-use-discourse-in-another-language/

· 5mo ago

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.

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· 6mo ago

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Our fix: We moved schema into the HTML as microdata, not just JSON-LD. This means web crawlers that don't execute JavaScript can still read the structured data from the actual page elements. Resilience + compatibility...

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https://youtu.be/5daZ_eSVGGA

· 6mo ago

Keegan from Discourse tells you literally everything you need to build your community...

Learn the exact setup: categories, AI tools, moderation, trust levels, and chat in 8 minutes.

Whether you're starting a community or scaling one, this covers it.

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· 6mo ago

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5/7 You can see it running live on our blog right now: https://blog.discourse.org/2024/12/introducing-discourse-ai/

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· 6mo ago

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4/7 The old embed gave your visitors a window into the conversation. The new one gives them a seat at the table. Replies, likes, quotes, full topic navigation, all inside the iframe on your own domain.

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· 5mo ago

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3/6 Voting changes who gets heard. People who'd never write out a full feature request will click a vote, and product teams stop guessing at priorities because they can see what users want, and in what order.

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