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About

Discourse is a secure and customizable platform for building online communities. Designed for organizations that care about control and flexibility, it supports a wide range of use cases including customer support, product feedback, internal collaboration, and member engagement. Built on open source technology, Discourse gives teams full visibility and ownership of their data. The platform supports real time conversation, long form discussion, advanced moderation, and automation. Features like trust levels, user roles, and granular permissions make it easy to scale with confidence. Discourse is used by leading companies, public institutions, and open communities. Whether hosted by your team or through our managed offering, it is built to integrate into your stack and evolve with your needs.

About

Rally around common obsessions. Features like our news feed fuse the best of social media with modern community. Publish your thoughts in any form they come. Markdown, rich text, images and video sharing. Empower your users with notifications, rich member profiles, and badges to reward activity. We're pioneers in safe and inclusive community building. We provide best-in-class tooling so your community can do the same. Embedded SEO tooling ensures your highly valuable user generated content will be indexed and discovered by current and future users. The platform enables you to do just about anything through custom pages, from unique static content to running a live conference with thousands of participants. Enable thoughtful, longform, async communication out in the open. Facilitate better product roadmapping through tight feedback loops.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

Organizations that want to create a robust online community forum

Audience

Communities in need of an open source community platform

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

$100 per month
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

Free
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 5.0 / 5
support 5.0 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 0.0 / 5
ease 0.0 / 5
features 0.0 / 5
design 0.0 / 5
support 0.0 / 5

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Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • Simple and clean user interface Open Source Excellent notification feature Security features - Single Sign On, Spam filter, 2FA Plugin support Trust level & badge system Mobile-support ready

Cons

  • Full feature set plans are costly, there should be more tiers for small scale usage.

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

Discourse
Founded: 2013
USA
www.discourse.org

Company Information

Forem
www.forem.com

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Categories

Categories

Community Features

Content Management
Content Moderation
Discussions / Forums
Event Management
Group Management
Ideation / Crowdsourcing
Member Directory
Membership Management
Social Media Management
Website Management
White Label

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Integrations

AppWise
Aritic Desk
Aritic Swarm
Axis LMS
Josys
LinkedIn
Matrix Pointe Software
Mermaid Chart
Mindspun
Netdata
Pipedream
SheepCRM
Slack
Stackreaction
Threado
Unikname
Workers by Delos
X (Twitter)
Zapier
n8n
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