Discourse | One platform. Any community.

Discourse is the customizable, scalable community platform powering more than 22,000 communities that create knowledge through conversation.
Reduce support costs for your organization by enabling your users to support each other and easily find answers to previously asked questions.
Enable your workplace to stay connected for quick chats and dive into deeper collaboration whenever needed, all from one place.
Gather ideas, prioritize what matters, and collaborate directly with your community to shape your product roadmap. From early concepts to shipped features, everything lives in one organized, transparent space.
Enable engineers to get help fast, collaborate on code, and influence product direction.
Out-of-the-box themes, branding options, and powerful customization tools, so your community feels like home.
Connect with your community using open discussions, chat, private messages, or straight from email—all in Discourse.
From a variety of moderation tools to settings for every feature Discourse gives you the flexibility to be as hands on or off as you want to be.
Scale your community without sacrificing flexibility or control. Whether you're just starting out or already serving millions, Discourse grows with you.
Extend your community with official and community-built themes and plugins.
The entire Discourse codebase is freely available on GitHub. No black boxes, no vendor lock-in, no surprises. Audit it, fork it, extend it.
Export everything, anytime. Self-host or use our managed hosting. Switch whenever you want. We've never sold user data and never will.
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