Where tech companies build communities
Trusted by names like OpenAI, Mozilla, and GitLab, Discourse is the customizable, scalable community platform powering more than 22,000 communities that create knowledge through conversation.
Reduce support costs for your organization by enabling your users to support each other and easily find answers to previously asked questions.
- Let staff share internal notes for support context
- Automate support workflows
- Community can upvote helpful posts/answers
- Empower your staff by reducing repeated questions
Enable your workplace to stay connected for quick chats and dive into deeper collaboration whenever needed, all from one place.
- Directly message teammates, start group chats, or organize conversations across channels
- Share files, documents, and updates with teammates to keep everyone in the loop
- Move quick chats to topics for when deeper discussions are required
Gather ideas, prioritize what matters, and collaborate directly with your community to shape your product roadmap. From early concepts to shipped features, everything lives in one organized, transparent space.
- Collect ideas and let users vote on what matters
- Track progress with clear stages and status updates
- Categorize feedback by area, priority, or release cycle
Enable engineers to get help fast, collaborate on code, and influence product direction.
- Keep technical discussions organized with categories, tags, versions, and accepted/solved answers
- Connect with GitHub to mirror releases/issues/PRs with to keep discussions in sync
- Share code snippets and examples with syntax highlighting
- Run roadmap discussions with voting, stages, and status updates
Enterprise-grade infrastructure for mission-critical communities
- Dedicated infrastructure and SLA guarantees
- SSO, SAML, and enterprise authentication
- Custom development and integrations to create a seamless experience
- White-glove onboarding and customer success from people who know code
Discourse is built for scale
- 3M+ posts created
- 1B+ page views served
- 100K+ monthly active users
- 45M+ monthly views
What our customers are saying
"...if you want the conversation forgotten, put it on Slack. If it matters, put it on Discourse."
Local Guides
"It was a pleasure to work with the team. We knew that we were being guided by experts who deeply know what communities need in order to thrive."
"Being hosted... and having all the current features is a tremendous help to the team and company. There is no one that offers this level of customization."
"The more I look deeply at @discourse the bigger the respect I have for the product… they have many many years of iterating fast on a solid forum product and it shows."
Make it yours
See Discourse in action across the internet's best communities
Inspired? Launch your community in minutes and get listed on Discover to reach new members.
Launch with everything you need: out-of-the-box themes, branding options, and powerful customization tools, so your community feels like home from day one.
- Create a searchable public knowledge base
- Customize look and feel
- Organize members with groups and roles
Connect with your community using open discussions, chat, private messages, or straight from email—all in Discourse.
- Get the conversation started with topics
- Built-in real-time chat
- Private messaging and DMs
From a variety of moderation tools to settings for every feature Discourse gives you the flexibility to be as hands on or off as you want to be.
- Protect your community with built-in moderation tools
- AI-assisted community management features
- Monitor community health with our admin dashboard
Scale your community without sacrificing flexibility or control. Whether you’re just starting out or already serving millions, Discourse grows with you.
- SSO and social logins
- Gamification features
- SEO optimized for Google
A community you own
Discourse is 100% free, open source forum software. Forever.
The entire Discourse codebase is freely available on GitHub. No black boxes, no vendor lock-in, no surprises. Audit it, fork it, extend it. View on GitHub
Export everything, anytime. Self-host or use our managed hosting. Switch whenever you want. We've never sold user data and never will.
No message limits. No hidden tiers. No paying to unlock your own content. Every conversation your community has ever had stays accessible.
Support that understands your stack
Our advocates aren't reading from scripts. They're engineers who know Discourse inside out and can help you architect the right solution.
Meet our team
Join a community of builders, moderators, and enthusiasts who love helping others get the most out of Discourse — from setup tips to advanced customizations.
Join the Discourse communityExplore expert guides, community insights, and helpful tools designed to make running your Discourse community easier and more effective.
Visit the Resource CenterI wanna shout out the team at @discourse. Often we see Twitter used as a resource to commiserate on bad experiences with services but it’s wonderful to amplify the extraordinary. Every time I’ve needed help, the team at Discourse has been super responsive and helpful. Y’all rock.