| Forum | https://meta.discourse.org |
| Website | https://discourse.org |
| Github | https://github.com/discourse |
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.
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.
https://blog.discourse.org/2026/03/how-discourse-is-becoming-a-community-of-writers/
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...
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...
What does it look like to replace social media with forums?
We're finding out...
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...
https://blog.discourse.org/2026/03/every-language-is-welcome/
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.
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.
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.
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...
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...
