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...
blog.discourse.org/2026/03/how...
What does it look like to replace social media with forums?
We're finding out...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Di...
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...
blog.discourse.org/2026/03/eve...
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, Managed AI + Self-hosted models
One-size AI ages badly. Optionality wins.
blog.discourse.org/2026/03/thr...
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...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Di...
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...
youtu.be/6DijCrwXmuo
Most feature request systems are where ideas go to die. Elfsight built theirs differently - public voting, status tracking, and developer KPIs tied to community-requested releases, all running on Discourse. The result: 700 features shipped so far.
blog.discourse.org/2026/02/elf...
Category creation on Discourse just got a lot simpler. Fewer fields, better color picker + straightforward access controls. Advanced settings are still available when you need them. Enable in your admin panel under Upcoming Changes!
meta.discourse.org/t/simplifie...
For 5 years, our YAML automation was destroying comments. We sponsored psych-pure to fix it - and now Ruby can preserve comments during programmatic edits.
blog.discourse.org/2026/02/how...
Make outgrew their Facebook community. The fix: move to Discourse and turn scattered conversations into a searchable knowledge hub that works long after the conversation ends…
blog.discourse.org/2026/02/mak...
Credits are up starting now. Check your dashboard, see what's changed, and put them to work!
Find out what else we've been up to: meta.discourse.org/latest
If you're running a community on Discourse Free and you've been cautious about the AI tools - summarizing long threads, surfacing related discussions, letting AI handle the repetitive moderation work - now's a good time to stop being cautious and give them a proper run.
Increasing Free credits helps us to learn more about what people actually do with real headroom, and that usage shapes what we build next and how we think about AI across every plan.
Early free plan users were quickly running through their credits because features like thread summarization and related topics are genuinely useful day to day.
When people hit the ceiling that fast, the ceiling is the problem, not the usage…
We’re increasing the AI credits on Discourse Free. If you've been rationing summarizations or second-guessing whether to use AI search on a thread, that calculation just changed.
We’re giving communities more room to actually use the tools the way they're meant to be used. 🧵
If everything important is locked in Slack threads and one-on-one chats, your models are guessing in the dark. A Discourse forum turns scattered Q&A into structured, searchable memory:
blog.discourse.org/2026/02/you...
12/ Have feedback on the Solved workflow or other small papercuts in your community?
Share them on Meta (our in-house community); they’re often where improvements like this start.
meta.discourse.org/
11/ If you’re using Solved on your Discourse community, you’ll now see the updated behavior automatically after updating to the latest version.
Try it out: mark a solution, watch the prompt vanish instantly, and enjoy the confetti 🎉
10/ ...and Keep topics clearly resolved so future members and visitors can quickly find what worked
More Solved UX improvements are on the way.
9/ This is part of a broader effort to refine the Solved experience and make it easier for communities to:
- Close the loop on questions and celebrate when answers are found
- Encourage helpful behavior by rewarding members for marking solutions
8/ This change came from ongoing feedback on the Solved experience and how we can make the "mark as solution" flow feel more intuitive, responsive, and rewarding for people who close the loop on their questions.
7/ No page reload is required
The UI now clearly reflects the updated state right away
6/ What’s new
As soon as a member marks a post as the solution:
The “Has your question been answered?” prompt disappears immediately
5/ So we’ve changed it to feel clearer, faster, and a lot more fun, with a small burst of confetti when a solution is marked.
4/ That behavior created a small disconnect: members did the right thing (marking a solution), but didn’t see instant feedback or a moment of celebration that their action worked.
3/ Previously, when viewing a topic in a Solved-enabled category without an accepted answer, Discourse would show a prompt to the topic creator:
“Has your question been answered?”
But even after marking a solution, that prompt could hang around until the page was refreshed.
2/ When you mark a reply as the solution to a question, you should immediately see and feel the impact of that action, with no reloads, no confusion, and a bit more delight.
1/ In Q+A categories that use the Solved plugin, we’ve shipped a small but impactful improvement to the Solved experience in Discourse, and it now comes with a little more joy 🎉
Discourse = community-owned infrastructure.
100% free & open source, GPL v2, export-all-your-data, self-host anywhere, and extend it however you like.
If you care about sovereignty, transparency, and longevity for your community, start with Discourse:
discourse.org/open-source
