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We’re hosting our first-ever Ask Us Anything!

On Nov. 19 at 5 PM ET, our CEOs Hawk and Sam will go live to talk about what’s coming in 2026, what we’re prioritizing (and why), and how we’re thinking about the future of online community.

Get all the details here:

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What’s Next for Discourse: Live AMA with Hawk & Sam
We’re hosting an AMA, and you’re invited.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Hawk’s new post for Discourse explores every stage of the community lifecycle and shares what it takes to keep communities healthy and sustainable.

Read it here:
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The Community Lifecycle: From Launch to Legacy
Serious community builders know that communities are ecosystems; they have a lifecycle that needs adaptive strategies. That lifecycle stretches from Inception – which begins well before the free platf...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:20 PM
We’re excited to announce our new Chat Search feature!

Now you can find past conversations across channels, group chats, and DMs.

It’s perfect for those “I know we talked about this somewhere…” moments. 🔍

Get all the details here:
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Introducing chat search
We’re excited to announce our new chat search feature, which makes it possible to find past conversations in chat channels, group chats, and DMs. 🔍 Full chat search across all your channels You can a...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
ICYMI: our Community Scaries webinar replay is live! The Discourse team and guest expert Tristan Robinson explain how to measure community health, understand seasonality, and track the metrics that matter most for your community.

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Community Scaries: What to worry about in communities
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November 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
We’ve been using Discourse to build Discourse from the beginning. In our latest blog post, we share how our community software helps our team collaborate and stay productive — with ideas any team can use.

Check it out here:
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How Discourse Uses Discourse
One of the best things about working at Discourse is that we practice what we preach: we run our 100+ employee company entirely on our own platform.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Here is a good example of workflows that are possible with Discourse MCP, Discourse → Jira integration.

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#ai #community #opensource #mcp
October 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Behind every breakthrough in AI, there’s a conversation that made it possible.

This month we explore three communities where people think together, share what works, and turn ideas into lasting knowledge.

Check it out here: blog.discourse.org/2025/10/disc...
Discourse Discover: AI Communities Edition
Today we're highlighting three AI-focused communities that handle different challenges: a fast-growing developer tool, a massive collaboration platform, and a name that everyone should recognise…
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October 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
We’re excited about what’s possible with MCPs and even more excited to share we now support it!

AI tools like Claude from @anthropic.com can search your Discourse forum, read topics, and learn from your community’s knowledge.

Learn more:
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Discourse MCP is here!
It didn't take long for our community to request an official MCP server for Discourse, and after considering many approaches on how to quickly deliver something useful to our very diverse user base we...
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October 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Today is the day!

Join us at 11am ET for Community Scaries, our live webinar on community health and engagement cycles.

See you there!

It's not too late to sign up 👇
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October 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Last day at Toronto Community Week!

Big thanks to everyone who stopped by to chat about Discourse, platform migrations, and community building. ❤️
October 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Join us next week for Community Scaries, our latest webinar on how to tell when metric drops are just part of your community’s natural rhythm and when they’re a sign to take action.

📆 October 28 at 11am ET

Register now: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
October 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
A safe community doesn’t happen by accident.

In our new white paper, Safe by Design, we share practical steps for protecting member privacy and building trust from day one.

Get your free copy here: discourse.org/downloads/sa...
Safe by Design: How to Protect Your Community Members and Their Privacy
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October 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Building great products starts with understanding the people who use them. In our latest blog post, Lindsey Fogle reflects on how her customer-facing experience continues to shape her approach to product management at Discourse.

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Why Customer-Facing Experience Makes Better PMs
As I moved through various support roles, I developed skills that would eventually lead me to my current career as a product manager (though when I started out, I had no idea what product management e...
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October 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Struggling with empty discussion boards or disengaged members?

Our latest blog post covers how to attract people who want to connect and contribute.

Plus, we've included a free worksheet to help you define who you’re building for and how to reach them.

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Community Acquisition Channels: Beyond "Build It and They Will Come"
Successful community growth doesn’t happen by accident. You need a deliberate acquisition strategy that goes beyond vanity numbers and focuses on attracting the right people.
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October 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
This year, our 2025 Discourse meetup brought us together in Prague 🇨🇿 for a week of connection, a competitive pool tournament, and a look at what’s next for Discourse.

Get the behind-the-scenes look at our annual meetup:

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Behind the Scenes: Our 2025 Prague Meetup
Every year, we bring our fully remote team together for a week-long meetup.  In September 2025, 87 of us gathered in Prague for an unforgettable experience in the only way we know how — chaotic, whole...
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October 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
We’ll be at Community Week Toronto 25!

🗓️ October 23–25, come by our booth and say hi 👋 .

Catch our Discourse migration experts Ruben Oussoren and Jennifer Lee as they share how to turn platform migrations into smooth, successful transitions.

Tickets available here : toronto.community-week.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
For many chat communities, preserving collective knowledge is a real challenge. In our latest blog post, we look at what it costs your community when information becomes hard to find.

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The Cost of Ephemeral Communication
Modern communication is built for the scroll.  Think: Slack and Discord chats, disappearing messages, DMs, and social feeds. But when it’s the only system of record, ephemeral channels quickly erase i...
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October 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
@davidtaylorhq.bsky.social, Tech Lead for our Developer Experience team here at Discourse, joined @EmberEurope to share how we're pushing the boundaries of Ember to provide an efficient and powerful plugin system for Discourse communities.

🎥 Watch the replay here:
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Discourse's Evolving Plugin System | Ember.js Europe | Q2 2025
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October 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
If your group chat community is starting to feel overwhelming, our latest blog post explains why and what you should consider doing about it.

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Why Your Community Needs a Home, Not Just a Group Chat
We all crave connection. And when we want to bring people together, the easiest option is to spin up a group chat. But if you’ve ever tried turning a Slack, Discord, or WhatsApp group into a real comm...
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September 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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We all love to chat, but when we need to learn together in our community or our workplace, it's incredibly valuable to have collective memory.

Here are some ideas to explore when you're ready to build lasting knowledge in your community.

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The end of community memory?
An experience I think a lot of us have these days in our interactions online, whether it be in the workplace, on social media, or even in real life is “We’ve had this conversation before…”
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September 25, 2025 at 7:08 PM
In her latest blog post, our co-CEO, Hawk, shares the story behind her name while exploring the privacy paradox in online communication, and offering practical strategies for building communities grounded in privacy and safety.

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The Hawk Origin Story (A Community Builder’s Privacy Paradox)
The privacy paradox: is the delta that exists between our attitude towards protecting our personal privacy and reality of the way we behave online.  Had I known about this incongruity when I first enc...
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September 23, 2025 at 7:33 PM
AI has reshaped how people find information. Search is now summaries with cited sources.

Want your community content to be one of those sources? Our latest blog post has practical tips for improving discoverability.

Get all the details here:
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How to Optimize Community Content for AI Discovery
AI has turned search into answers. People ask a question, get one synthesized response, and see a small handful of cited sources. If your community is one of those sources, you win trust, traffic, and...
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September 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
If you are looking to create a community that values reflection, builds memory, and turns conversations into lasting knowledge you should check out the latest blog post from our co-CEO, Hawk.

You can read it here:
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Building Communities That Think
Social media and instant messaging fundamentally changed how we talk to each other. The paragraph has ceded power to fast moving and ephemeral chat that inevitably leans toward the shallow and reactiv...
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September 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM