Engage in searchable discussions with your customers, superfans, and team members.
Work better, together
Create a self-service hub of common questions, interesting ideas, and useful discussion.
Discuss more, moderate less
Our automatic trust system lets the whole community help cultivate fruitful conversation.
Choose your own adventure
Customize the style, integrate your favorite services, and create the community you need.
What’s different about it?
Discourse is a from-scratch reboot, an attempt to reimagine what a modern Internet discussion forum should be today, in a world of ubiquitous smartphones, tablets, Facebook, and Twitter.
We’re civilized.
Our trust system means that the community builds a natural immune system to defend itself from trolls, bad actors, and spammers — and the most engaged forum members can assist in the governance of their community. We put a trash can on every street corner with a simple, low-friction flagging system. Positive behaviors are encouraged through likes and badges. We gently, constantly educate members in a just-in-time manner on the universal rules of civilized discourse.
Uncompromisingly open source.
There is only one version of Discourse – the awesome open source version. There’s no super secret special paid commercial version with better or more complete features. Because Discourse is 100% open source forum software, now and forever, it belongs to you as much as it belongs to us. That’s how community works.
Everything that most communities would want is included out of the box; a giant collection of complex plugins should not be required to have a great experience.
