Founded by Jeff Atwood in 2014
Build public discussion forums and private spaces for community knowledge sharing and support
Pricing model
Free Tier, Paid
Rating
★ People love it
Time to value
Quick Setup (< 1 hour)
You can use Discourse to build online forums and community hubs where members discuss ideas and answer questions. It lets you organize discussions with categories and tags, run real-time chat channels, and manage direct messages between teammates. Community members can upvote helpful replies and mark accepted answers to build a searchable knowledge repository. It also provides built-in moderation controls to flag spam, customizable branding themes, and integration with GitHub to connect bug reports and code discussions directly to forum topics without losing context.
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Pricing model: Free tier, Paid
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