Where tech companies build communities

Discourse is the customizable, scalable community platform powering more than 22,000 communities that create knowledge through conversation.

What would you like to build?

• Support hub
• Team workspace
• Product feedback
• Developer community

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, and accepted answers
• Connect with GitHub to mirror releases, issues, and pull requests
• Share code snippets and examples
• Run roadmap discussions with voting, stages, and status updates

Discourse Enterprise

Enterprise-grade infrastructure for mission-critical communities

Tailor your community to fit your organization's needs with advanced customization and integration. Our Professional Services team helps you get the most out of your community from day one.

• Dedicated infrastructure and SLA guarantees
• SSO, SAML, and enterprise authentication
• Custom development and integrations to create a branded experience
• White-glove onboarding and guidance from people who know code

Building blocks for a complete community platform

Hundreds of features to build, manage, and grow a healthy community.

Customize

Designed to fit your brand

• Create a searchable public knowledge base
• Customize look and feel
• Organize members with groups and roles

Connect

Every way to connect

• Get the conversation started with topics
• Built-in real-time chat
• Private messaging and DMs

Manage

Easy to manage

• Protect your community with built-in moderation tools
• AI-assisted community management features
• Monitor community health with our admin dashboard

Grow

From startups to global enterprises

• SSO and social logins
• Gamification features
• SEO optimized for Google

Themes & plugins

Extend your community with official and community-built themes and plugins.

• Install ready-made themes and plugins yourself
• Build custom themes and plugins on our flexible platform
• Collaborate with our Professional Services team to customize your community

You own your community and your data

Powering tech communities for 10+ years with secure infrastructure and full ownership of your data.

Open source at heart

The entire Discourse codebase is freely available on GitHub. No black boxes, no vendor lock-in, no surprises. Audit it, fork it, extend it.

Your data, your control

Export everything, anytime. Self-host or use our managed hosting. Switch whenever you want. We've never sold user data and never will.

Discourse Discover

See Discourse in action across the internet's best communities

Don't just take our word for it—explore thousands of thriving communities built on Discourse, from open source projects to game developers, from product communities to AI leaders.

What our customers are saying

"...if you want the conversation forgotten, put it on Slack. If it matters, put it on Discourse."

David Santoro, Co-founder

"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."

Flavia Siqueira, Project Manager

"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."

Sara Leslie, Sr. Director Online Communities & Education

"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."

Paulo Fonseca