Engage in searchable discussions with your most avid customers, superfans, and fellow team members – every day. Let everyone discover what you do, how you do it, and join in on the conversation.
Private conversation areas and whispers are supported too, along with email notifications and email replies. We’ve got you covered.
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Crowdsource a self-service knowledge hub of common questions, interesting ideas, and great conversations.
As open source forum software, we guarantee your community will always belong to you.
Become a hero through our automatic trust system that lets the whole community help cultivate positive and fruitful discussion, and naturally encourages leaders and enthusiasts.
Seamlessly integrate your forum software with the rest of your online presence — quickly change the look with HTML and CSS theming, allow users to easily log in with Social, Single Sign On, or oAuth 2.0. For even deeper integrations, take advantage of our webhooks and simple JSON based APIs.
Discourse is 100% free, open source forum software. Forever.
Install from GitHub“The wide range of Discourse tools, as well as its intelligence that comes out of the box, made it possible for our community to thrive”
Car Talk uses Discourse as a forum for their thousands of loyal listeners and readers. We dare you to come up with a questions about cars that can not be answered on their forum of experts & avid hobbyists.
Discourse is flat out amazing. It’s powerful, reliable, and flexible. We transitioned from another provider a year ago and never looked back. We’ve only just started to tap into its versatility. And— oh, the best part? They're great folks who are smart and listen to our needs. (Thank you, Jeff and Neil!)
