Discourse (software)

Discourse
Developer(s) Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc.
Initial release 2013 (2013)
Stable release 1.4.2[1] / October 19, 2015 (2015-10-19)
Development status Active
Written in Ruby, JavaScript
Operating system Linux
Available in Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian
Type Forum software
Mailing list management software
License GNU GPL version 2 or later
Website www.discourse.org

Discourse is an open source Internet forum and mailing list management software application founded in 2013 by Jeff Atwood, Robin Ward, and Sam Saffron.[2] Discourse received funding from First Round Capital and Greylock Partners.[3]

From a usability perspective, Discourse breaks with existing forum software by including features recently popularized by large social networks, such as infinite scrolling, live updates, oneboxing, expanding links, and drag and drop attachments.[4] However, the stated goals of the project are social rather than technical, to improve online discussion quality through improved forum software.

The application is written in JavaScript and Ruby on Rails,[5] and is released under the GNU General Public License version 2. PostgreSQL is the supported database management system. It also uses the Ember.js framework .[6]

Server requirements

The following software is required on a server to run Discourse:[7]

Notable users

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Releases · discourse/discourse · GitHub". GitHub.
  2. ↑ "StackExchange Founder Vows to Reinvent Online Discourse". Wired. 2013-02-06.
  3. ↑ "Stack Exchange Co-Founder Jeff Atwood Launches Forums Startup Discourse". TechCrunch. 2013-02-05.
  4. ↑ "Discourse - A new type of forum". ITworld. 2013-04-19.
  5. ↑ "Discourse - FAQ". discourse.org.
  6. ↑ "Why Discourse uses Ember.js". eviltrout.com.
  7. ↑ "discourse/DEVELOPER-ADVANCED.md at master · discourse/discourse · GitHub". GitHub.
  8. 1 2 "The sad state of web app deployment". 2015-09-17. Retrieved 2015-09-29.
  9. ↑ "Atom Discussion". atom.io.
  10. ↑ "Directory of Open Knowledge Network members". discuss.okfn.org.
  11. ↑ "The SitePoint Forums". sitepoint.com.
  12. ↑ "Ubuntu Discourse". ubuntu.com.

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