Discourse (software)

Discourse
DevelopersCivilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc.
ReleaseAugust 26, 2014 (2014-08-26)
Stable release
v2026.1.0 Edit this on Wikidata / 8 January 2026
Written inRuby, JavaScript
Operating systemLinux
Available inAlbanian, Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Telugu, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese
Type
LicenseGNU GPL version 2 (or later)
Websitewww.discourse.org Edit this at Wikidata
Repository

Discourse is an open source Internet forum system released on August 26, 2014. It was founded by Jeff Atwood, Robin Ward, and Sam Saffron.

The client side application is written in EmberJS. The server side is written in Ruby on Rails and backed by a PostgreSQL database and Redis cache. The source code is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2.

The default homepage features a list of active topics as well as navigation buttons that help users find discussions they're interested in.
The default homepage in Discourse
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