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Trust System As members become trusted regulars over time, they earn abilities to help maintain their community.

Mobile and Tablet Designed for touch devices from day one. Automatic mobile and touch layouts that scale to fit your device.

Community Moderation Flagging system lets the community suppress spam and dangerous content, and amicably resolve disputes on their own.

Optimized for Reading To keep reading, just keep scrolling. When you reach the bottom, suggested topics keep you reading.

Likes Express agreement, support, and highlight interesting posts with the prominent ❤ button on every post.

Summarize Topics Use the Summarize button to condense long topics to just the most interesting and popular posts.

Inline Context Expand quotes, expand replies, or expand what this was in reply to.

Translations Translations are available for 17 languages and counting. Users can switch to the language of their choice as a preference.

Real Time Notifications Know when someone replies to you, quotes you, mentions your @name, sends you a private message, links to your post, edits your post, or recategorizes your topic.

SEO Friendly, human readable URLs and clean HTML. Optimized for Google indexing and searching.

Plugins If you need custom functionality unique to your site, take advantage of our plugin support.

Single Sign On Seamlessly integrate Discourse with your existing site's login system with easy, robust single sign on.

Overlay Editor Compose with an overlay editor which never interrupts your reading – even if you navigate to a different topic.

Social Login Easily add Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, GitHub, and other common social logins.

Private Spaces Make your entire site private, or just certain categories. Approve all new users, or make your site invite-only.

Blog Integration Use our WordPress plugin to integrate a Discourse community into your blog. Or embed Discourse into static HTML sites.

One Click Upgrades Automatic notification of new versions in the dashboard, with a one-click web upgrade process.

Anonymous Posting Enable anonymous posting mode and your users can easily switch to anonymous mode to post about controversial, dangerous, or political issues without fear.

User metrics Public user directory that shows read time, posts, likes, and other common metrics. Know who your most avid users are!

Desktop Notifications Integration with desktop notifications built into modern browsers, so you know when new posts arrive on your laptop or desktop.

Post Approval For sites with sensitive content, enable approval to have staff approve all posts by new users in a handy queue.

Spam Blocking Comprehensive spam blocking heuristics including new user sandboxing, user flag blocking, and standard nofollow. Built in Akismet spam protection.

Analytics Dashboard for staff that shows key stats on users, topics, and all user actions – along with top referring domains and topics.

Automatic URL Embedding URLs to popular websites like Wikipedia and YouTube will include an inline summary. We fully support OpenGraph and oEmbed.

Advanced Image Handling Add images through upload, drag and drop, or copy and paste. Large images automatically thumbnailed and lightboxed.

File Attachments Include arbitrary file attachments of any allowed file type or file size in your posts.

Link Tracking External links are shown with a visible click counter. Incoming and outgoing links to other topics are displayed next to each post.

Polls Create quick poll topics for the community to vote on.

Spoilers Built in tags that hide potential spoilers, revealing only on click or tap.

Flexible Formatting Mix and match Markdown, BBCode, and HTML formatting in posts.

Emoji Just start typing : and you have access to the complete list of standard emoji. Choose from four Emoji sets, or define your own custom Emoji.

Comprehensive API Anything you see on screen, you can also do via an API call. Discourse itself is a JavaScript app that talks to our API.

Local Avatars Built-in local avatar generation with no external dependencies. Alternately, select an existing Gravatar, or upload a custom avatar.

Email Invitations Trusted users can invite friends via email to join and reply with a single click. Admins can batch invite users by uploading email addresses.

Automatic Drafts We auto-save replies and topics to the server in the background as you type.

Revision History Revision tracking on every edit, with a visual difference highlighter to show changes.

Wiki Posts Mark posts as collaboratively editable by any trusted member of the community.

Badges Encourage positive community behaviors through the included set of badges, or add your own custom badges.

Email Notifications When you aren't active on the website, your notifications will be automatically sent to you via email.

Email Replies Reply to email notifications to post without visiting the website.

Inline Moderation Fast inline controls to split, merge, close, archive, or recategorize topics. Select groups of topics to act on.

Flag Queue Highly visible moderator flag queue with optional email notification. One click to agree, disagree, or defer flags. Complete history.

Site-Wide Notifications Pin topics locally or globally. Banner a topic to have it appear as a dismissable banner for all users. Add a permanent alert for urgent situations.

Mailing List Support Opt into a special mode where all messages are sent to you via email, exactly like a mailing list. Start new topics via email.

Community Hub Official community support hub at meta.discourse to discuss features, bugs, and support requests.

Private Messaging Send private messages to a single user or to groups of users.

Web Backup and Restore Backup and restore all your site data from your browser. Take your data to any host, anywhere, in a few clicks.

Automated Backups Automatically back up your site data every day, either to the local filesystem, or to the cloud.

CDN Support Easily plug in any CDN provider to speed up global access to your site.

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