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@mttaggart I have a voice chat plugin for Discourse, recently shared at https://meta.discourse.org/t/resenha-add-discord-style-voice-rooms-to-your-community/389056

The web nowadays is super powerful, we can cover a lot of Discord use cases with open tech.

That voice chat is also p2p and encrypted by the nature of WebRTC.

Resenha - Add Discord-style Voice Rooms to Your Community πŸŽ™

Hey everyone! Sharing Resenha, an experimental plugin that adds voice chat rooms directly into Discourse β€” no external apps, no media servers, just peer-to-peer voice in your sidebar. Try It Live πŸ‘‰ https://discourse-on-a-pi5.falco.dev/ (Yes, it runs on a Raspberry Pi 5 β€” that’s how lightweight this is.) How It Works Click a room in the sidebar to join, click again to leave. All audio goes peer-to-peer via WebRTC β€” your Discourse server only handles signaling, never media. A defa...

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I see it's once again time to post this: https://taggart-tech.com/discord-alternatives
Discord Alternatives, Ranked

Building an online community takes more than tools. But the right tool can make all the difference.

Here is a good example of workflows that are possible with Discourse MCP, Discourse β†’ Jira integration.

https://blog.discourse.org/2025/10/discourse-mcp-is-here/

#ai #community #opensource #mcp

Here is a good example of workflows that are possible with Discourse MCP, @Discourse β†’ Jira integration.

https://blog.discourse.org/2025/10/discourse-mcp-is-here/

#ai #community #opensource #mcp

Exclusive gift for the Builders group in this Google I/O is the coolest!

#GoogleIO #GiftFromGoogle

@xeraa @Discourse Happy to see it being helpful! Let me know how it feels in a week or two!

we enabled some of the @Discourse provided AI features on discuss.elastic.co. the stats are for the last 24 (the weekend is a bit quieter)

feels more about making things more useful than just generating more text:
1. better search with semantic search: that should be an easy win
2. better spam detection: great
3. summarization: not quite sure if that will be as useful β€” also this output cost 1.9K tokens in total

C IS LEGAL AGAIN
ModernBert, https://huggingface.co/blog/modernbert, is shaping to be the basis of a whole new generation of embeddings, classification and re-rankers. Hopefully we get good multilingual ones too.
Finally, a Replacement for BERT: Introducing ModernBERT

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

@codinghorror thanks for sharing, just backed that!