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Discourse (software)
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Not to be confused with Discord (software).
Discourse is an open source Internet forum system. Features include threading, categorization and tagging of discussions, configurable access control, live updates, expanding link previews, infinite scrolling, and real-time notifications. It is customizable via its plugin architecture and its theming system.
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Developer(s) | Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc. |
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Initial release | August 26, 2014 (9 years ago) (2014-08-26)[1] |
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Written in | Ruby, JavaScript |
Operating system | Linux |
Available in | Albanian, 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 |
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License | GNU GPL version 2 (or later) |
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Discourse was released on August 26, 2014, by its founders 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 Postgres 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.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Discourse-homepage.png/640px-Discourse-homepage.png)