Discourse
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“The nice thing about Discourse is, I feel like threads are more permanent.”
“It is pretty easy to do plugins and custom themes in Discourse”
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“I use redmine and discourse.”
“discourse combines web forum and email, people can use either one as they see fit.”
“Except for that, I love Discourse.”
Caveats and dissent
“It's concerning that they're going with Discourse tags instead of categories so project maintainers will never be allowed to moderate their own spaces.”
“I tried Discourse and it sucks.”
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“The founders went on to found Discourse which has the exact same problems in community”
“Discourse which defaults to an infinite-scroll view”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“if you want to self-host there have been a bunch of improvements in the setup process recently”
“I work at Discourse.”
Threads where it came up
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- Bring Back Crappy Forums 3 mentions
- The Case Against PGVector 2 mentions
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- Getting phpBB 1.4.4 working in Docker 1 mention
Data: discourse.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 23
“redmine / discourse / GLPI”
“The nice thing about Discourse is, I feel like threads are more permanent.”
“It is pretty easy to do plugins and custom themes in Discourse”
“I use redmine and discourse.”
“Discourse and Zulip are better for things that should be preserved”
“I volunteer with Discourse”
“It's concerning that they're going with Discourse tags instead of categories so project maintainers will never be allowed to moderate their own spaces.”
“discourse combines web forum and email, people can use either one as they see fit.”
Discourse has one major technical challenge currently, that I know about. It doesn't work (for being logged in and interacting) on iOS 15 and older as of the past year. It's view-only for those devices. Because of a load-bearing CSS attribute, as I understand it. So, it's hard to consider it a web-standards supportive platform anymore. Or, at least, it's a web platform with a technical challenge of not being interact
“using Discourse”
“Definitely better than Discourse.”
“I wonder when will Discourse move to Ember 7.0?”
“I tried Discourse and it sucks.”
“The founders went on to found Discourse which has the exact same problems in community”
“Spectrum [1] was far better than Discourse”
“Discourse which defaults to an infinite-scroll view”
“Discourse was free to self host in 2024.”
“Except for that, I love Discourse.”
“Seems to work okay in general.”
“but I'm not sure how civilian friendly it is”
“That is a great fit for the GIF integration in Discourse.”
“I'd far rather see those back over endless Discourse/Discord/reddit/facebook etc.”
“We do at Discourse, in thousands of databases”