Discourse (software)
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| Developer(s) | Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc. |
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| Initial release | 2013 |
| Stable release | 1.3[1]
/ June 3, 2015 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | Ruby, JavaScript |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Available in | Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian |
| Type | Forum software |
| License | GNU GPL version 2 or later |
| Website | www.discourse.org |
Discourse is an open source Internet forum software application founded in 2013 by Jeff Atwood, Robin Ward, and Sam Saffron.[2] Discourse received funding from First Round Capital and Greylock.[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
- discourse.ubuntu.com - Ubuntu (operating system)
- discuss.atom.io - Atom (text editor)
- [1] - Schizophrenia.com Forums
- [2] - Sitepoint Forums
- [3] - Tudiabetes.org Forums
References
- ^ Discourse releases
- ^ "StackExchange Founder Vows to Reinvent Online Discourse". Wired. 2013-02-06.
- ^ "Stack Exchange Co-Founder Jeff Atwood Launches Forums Startup Discourse". TechCrunch. 2013-02-05.
- ^ "Discourse - A new type of forum". ITworld. 2013-04-19.
- ^ http://www.discourse.org/faq/#tech
- ^ http://eviltrout.com/2013/02/10/why-discourse-uses-emberjs.html
- ^ Discourse Advanced Developer Install Guide
External links
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