Discourse
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Discourse is an open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet. A modern forum, everything's been redesigned to be easy.
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- Free Personal
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
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- Online
- Self-Hosted
- Ruby
- JavaScript
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- Docker
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What is Discourse?
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Developed by
Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc. Licensing
Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free Personal product.Pricing
Subscription ranging between $100 and $300 per month.Written in
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Comments and Reviews
Discourse is pretty awesome forum software - best I've tried!
If it could to voting and edit suggestion like
Quora it would be completely killer!
Most users want to disable emails with activity summary created by other users with websites when they don't want to read said websites that often: "when I don’t visit here, send me an email summary of popular topics and replies".
Users have to repeat steps below for most websites with Discourse:
Generally it's a good idea to create a new forum software from scratch because the existing ones are terrible, outdated and slow, yet discourse manages to make some simple things even worse, e.g.:
All in all, the poor UX could be due to the fact that this software was developed from the perspective of a moderator and not a forum user. Some features only serve to further limit user participation, thereby ironically limiting the discourse in a forum.
Discourse is modern and powerful... but its design is retention-based, and their recent developments into a chat tool underline this direction. The main reason i want to use forums is because the discussion may be less noisy, and attention-grabbing... why are they pushing their porduct in this direction then ?
Body is limited to 32000 characters...
.log files are restricted for new users... .zip files are restricted for new users...
Just one reaction with heart at the moment. Not so helpful.