What is Discourse?
Discourse is a simple, flat forum, where replies flow down the page in a line. Replies are attached to the bottom and top of each post, so you can optionally expand the context of the conversation – without breaking your flow.
Discourse is a tool in the Forums category of a tech stack.
Discourse is an open source tool with 42.3K GitHub stars and 8.3K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Discourse's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Discourse?
Companies
159 companies reportedly use Discourse in their tech stacks, including Twitter, ROBLOX, and Heroku.
Developers
114 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Discourse.
Discourse Integrations
WordPress, Zendesk, Zapier, Coda, and Tray.io are some of the popular tools that integrate with Discourse. Here's a list of all 10 tools that integrate with Discourse.
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Discourse's Features
- Remembers your place
- Log in with … anything
- Paste to share images
- Search that actually works
- Scalable moderation
- Bring your friends
- Your stuff belongs to you
- Comprehensive API
Discourse Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Discourse?
Disqus
Disqus looks to make it very easy and rewarding for people to interact on websites using its system. Commenters can build reputation and carry their contributions from one website to the next.
Flarum
Flarum is the next-generation forum software that makes online discussion fun. It's simple, fast, and free.
Discord
Discord is a modern free voice & text chat app for groups of gamers. Our resilient Erlang backend running on the cloud has built in DDoS protection with automatic server failover.
Slack
Imagine all your team communication in one place, instantly searchable, available wherever you go. That’s Slack. All your messages. All your files. And everything from Twitter, Dropbox, Google Docs, Asana, Trello, GitHub and dozens of other services. All together.
WordPress
The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family.
