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Welcome to our first edition of Current Projects, a new monthly newsletter where we’ll be sharing what we’re currently working on at Discourse. Our goal is to give you and the wider community some insight into what might be coming next in Discourse so you can stay informed, ask questions, share feedback, and contribute to what’s currently in progress. Without further ado, here’s what we’re currently up to! Kicking off Composer redesign We are kicking off a new project to redesign the composer for writing topics and posts. We are still in the early research, design, and prototyping phases of this project, but will be sharing more soon with the community as we make furt…
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Welcome to our first edition of Current Projects, a new monthly newsletter where we’ll be sharing what we’re currently working on at Discourse. Our goal is to give you and the wider community some insight into what might be coming next in Discourse so you can stay informed, ask questions, share feedback, and contribute to what’s currently in progress. Without further ado, here’s what we’re currently up to! Kicking off Composer redesign We are kicking off a new project to redesign the composer for writing topics and posts. We are still in the early research, design, and prototyping phases of this project, but will be sharing more soon with the community as we make furt…
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We’re excited to announce the new Starter plan, the easiest and fastest way to launch a community with Discourse. Starter offers public or private sites with unlimited members at $20 a month! This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.discourse.org/2024/09/introducing-the-new-starter-plan 2 posts - 2 participants Read full topic View the full article
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We’re excited to announce the new Starter plan, the easiest and fastest way to launch a community with Discourse. Starter offers public or private sites with unlimited members at $20 a month! This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.discourse.org/2024/09/introducing-the-new-starter-plan 2 posts - 2 participants Read full topic
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We’re excited to announce a significant improvement in how we handle pageviews and present this crucial data to you. Our new site traffic report offers a more comprehensive and accurate view of your community’s engagement. Let’s dive into what’s new and how it benefits you! Please note that we are in the process of rolling the new pageview tracking out to hosted customers, so not all sites will be switched over right away. What has changed We’ve revamped our approach to tracking and reporting pageviews to provide you with more reliable and actionable data. We now monitor the sources of individual pageviews and are able to detect if they came from a real browser or a …
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We’re excited to announce a significant improvement in how we handle pageviews and present this crucial data to you. Our new site traffic report offers a more comprehensive and accurate view of your community’s engagement. Let’s dive into what’s new and how it benefits you! Please note that we are in the process of rolling the new pageview tracking out to hosted customers, so not all sites will be switched over right away. What has changed We’ve revamped our approach to tracking and reporting pageviews to provide you with more reliable and actionable data. We now monitor the sources of individual pageviews and are able to detect if they came from a real browser or a …
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What’s Font Awesome? Discourse uses a free set of icons from Font Awesome throughout its interface. You see these on toolbars, badges, buttons, etc… here’s our composer toolbar: Since 2018 we’ve been using Font Awesome 5 (original announcement), and in the meantime Font Awesome 6 has been released. Version 6 includes new icons, some general style updates, and renames. As of today, Discourse will start using version 6 too! Specifically, version 6.6.0. This isn’t an enormous visual change, but you’ll notice some differences: What does this upgrade involve? This upgrade was a little more complicated to implement because it involves a number of renames. Font Awesome …
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What’s Font Awesome? Discourse uses a free set of icons from Font Awesome throughout its interface. You see these on toolbars, badges, buttons, etc… here’s our composer toolbar: Since 2018 we’ve been using Font Awesome 5 (original announcement), and in the meantime Font Awesome 6 has been released. Version 6 includes new icons, some general style updates, and renames. As of today, Discourse will start using version 6 too! Specifically, version 6.6.0. This isn’t an enormous visual change, but you’ll notice some differences: What does this upgrade involve? This upgrade was a little more complicated to implement because it involves a number of renames. Font Awesome …
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We’ve been working on redesigning the /about page in Discourse and we’re finally ready to make it available to try it out. If you’re logged in to Meta, you can see it right here by heading to /about. Here’s a screenshot: Notable additions Banner image at the top of the page Extended description that supports HTML/markdown 2-columns layout to reduce the amount of white space on wide screens Expandable/collapsible lists of admins and moderators Visitors and EU visitors stats to enable site owners to comply with the Digital Services Act (DSA). This requires the display_eu_visitor_stats setting to be enabled. How to enable it Go to the admin site settings…
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We’ve redesigned the /about page in Discourse. Learn more about configuration options in the documentation topic: Understanding and customizing the About page You can see it right here by heading to /about. Here’s a screenshot: Notable additions Banner image at the top of the page Extended description that supports HTML/markdown 2-columns layout to reduce the amount of white space on wide screens Expandable/collapsible lists of admins and moderators Visitors and EU visitors stats to enable site owners to comply with the Digital Services Act (DSA). This requires the display_eu_visitor_stats setting to be enabled. Feedback If you encounter a bug with o…
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New features in v3.4.0.beta1 “Hot” replaces “Top” in default menu items “Hot” is the newest topic sorting option that helps you discover what’s currently trending in your community based on recent likes and lively discussions. We are now replacing “Top” with “Hot” topics for sites that have not modified the top menu site setting. Learn more. Unseen feature indicator In the admin sidebar, the “What’s New” link will now feature a blue dot indicating new features are available if the user has not seen those features yet. Polls can show absolute numbers Polls now support absolute numbers in addition to percentages. 3 posts - 3 participants R…
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New features in v3.4.0.beta1 “Hot” replaces “Top” in default menu items “Hot” is the newest topic sorting option that helps you discover what’s currently trending in your community based on recent likes and lively discussions. We are now replacing “Top” with “Hot” topics for sites that have not modified the top menu site setting. Learn more. Unseen feature indicator In the admin sidebar, the “What’s New” link will now feature a blue dot indicating new features are available if the user has not seen those features yet. Polls can show absolute numbers Polls now support absolute numbers in addition to percentages. 3 posts - 3 participants R…
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Discourse 3.3.1 Stable Release Discourse strongly recommends that all sites follow the default tests-passed branch of Discourse. The “stable” branch is more focused on lack of change than lack of bugs - all releases, including those on tests-passed and beta are production ready. Bug fixes This release includes the following minor bug fixes and performance improvements: FIX: Badge image uploader (#28188) (#28521) · discourse/discourse@d3ad2ec · GitHub DEV: Allow disabling problem checks programatically (#28440) (#28441) · discourse/discourse@eaa40bb · GitHub DEV: Switch back to Chrome for running QUnit tests (#28430) · discourse/discourse@6cc856c · GitHub DEV: Update mi…
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Discourse 3.3.1 Stable Release Discourse strongly recommends that all sites follow the default tests-passed branch of Discourse. The “stable” branch is more focused on lack of change than lack of bugs - all releases, including those on tests-passed and beta are production ready. Bug fixes This release includes the following minor bug fixes and performance improvements: FIX: Badge image uploader (#28188) (#28521) · discourse/discourse@d3ad2ec · GitHub DEV: Allow disabling problem checks programatically (#28440) (#28441) · discourse/discourse@eaa40bb · GitHub DEV: Switch back to Chrome for running QUnit tests (#28430) · discourse/discourse@6cc856c · GitHub DEV: Update mi…
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We have recently made our new documentation plugin available for testing and feedback. This plugin is designed to enhance the navigation and accessibility of documentation hosted on Discourse, providing a more accessible and friendly experience for all users. Note that this plugin is still in development. The development of this plugin stems from our ongoing effort to improve documentation, which has already been enhanced by a new sidebar. The sidebar work laid the foundation for a much improved documentation experience, and the new plugin incrementally builds upon that work. The new plugin in action The plugin is currently active and powering the documentation on our …
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We have recently made our new documentation plugin available for testing and feedback. This plugin is designed to enhance the navigation and accessibility of documentation hosted on Discourse, providing a more accessible and friendly experience for all users. Note that this plugin is still in development. The development of this plugin stems from our ongoing effort to improve documentation, which has already been enhanced by a new sidebar. The sidebar work laid the foundation for a much improved documentation experience, and the new plugin incrementally builds upon that work. The new plugin in action The plugin is currently active and powering the documentation on our …
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Happy Anniversary to us! On August 26, 2014, we released Discourse v1.0 and introduced hosting services. We have been full throttle ever since. Now that we’ve hit this milestone we’re taking a look back to see how far we’ve come. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.discourse.org/2024/08/celebrating-a-decade-of-discourse 11 posts - 11 participants Read full topic View the full article
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Happy Anniversary to us! On August 26, 2014, we released Discourse v1.0 and introduced hosting services. We have been full throttle ever since. Now that we’ve hit this milestone we’re taking a look back to see how far we’ve come. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.discourse.org/2024/08/celebrating-a-decade-of-discourse 11 posts - 11 participants Read full topic
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I’m excited to announce some updates to how we handle documentation to ensure clarity and collaboration while maintaining the quality of information provided. Read on to understand how our new documentation setup works. Official documentation We’ve updated the Documentation category to be dedicated solely to official documentation. This means that all content in its subcategories is maintained by Discourse team members, ensuring the information is accurate and up-to-date. If you’re looking for the most authoritative guides and references, this is the place! Why only team members? Restricting the creation and editing of official documentation to our team ensures consist…
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5.0.6 is on it's way to the land of cloud and deployment. We've got a freshly baked beta here for you today. There are loads of fixes, and new extensions. The full list is with our release notes. Key things include: More clunky javascript removal, more beautiful CSS used for transitions More slow javascript removed, more beautiful native Javascript used (fixes lots of minor things, including slow tag selection) More editor fixes More Javascript and CSS removed to address layout shifts and reflows for that beautiful Pagespeed. Bumper extensions and listeners for developers to use including: MFA Handlers, share services, userMenu additions, loads more listener types (polls, courses, files, etc), more extensions methods for tables and clubs. No tariffs Phew. As always, this is a beta release and with a fair amount of javascript changed and removed, you may come across the odd thing so please let us know if you do. -
We’re excited to introduce our newest theme — Horizon! We’ve been testing Horizon internally for some time and are now ready to test here on Meta so we can get your feedback on how to continue improving this theme. In this topic, we’ll share the goals behind Horizon and provide guidance for how to test and share your feedback with us. Getting to know Horizon Horizon is a simple, beautiful theme that aspires to become the new out-of-the-box experience for Discourse sites. Who is Horizon for? While we hope that Horizon is a great fit for many communities, we created Horizon with specific users in mind — non-technical admins and everyday members. Non-technical admins are community admins who have limited technical expertise and no access to design or development resources. They don’t have the resources or know-how to customize Discourse’s appearance to work best for their community, but still believe that Discourse is a great fit for their community. Everyday members fall somewhere in between the one-time visitor and the elite power user. They regularly read and post in the community, and are more likely to visit Discourse primarily (if not exclusively) from their phones. We are proud that Discourse is so flexible and customizable, we want to make sure Discourse remains a great option for all communities, regardless of technical expertise or resources. We created Horizon for admins that don’t have access to design or developer resources, but still want a great looking community that your members will love. What’s different about Horizon? While our Default theme is a relatively blank slate, Horizon is an opinionated theme. That means we have made certain choices about how Discourse looks and operates while using this theme in order to provide a great overall user experience for our target users (described above). Here are some changes you might notice: Topic cards are less information dense. The most noticeable feature of Horizon is the topic card. We have pruned out as much information as we can to keep the topic list looking clean and approachable. Certain information, like a more robust list of topic participants and topic tags, are not visible on the topic card. Horizon is not intended to support additional customizations. Because we’re targeting an audience that isn’t able or interested in customizing Discourse’s appearance or behavior, Horizon is not guaranteed to work well with all theme components or customizations. That said, we’ve tested Horizon against the most popular theme components and the incompatibilities we’ve found so far are minor. We’ll work to address those over time. For now, we do not recommend activating theme components with Horizon or adding your own customizations. Horizon includes new color palettes that admins can enable to give members greater control over their community experience. Once enabled through the admin Color Palette settings, members can select from one of six theme-specific color palettes for a custom look and feel. Larger text in the reading area. You’ll notice that Horizon’s reading area (i.e. topics) has slightly larger text than the rest of the interface text. We’re experimenting with this differentiated text size with the hope that it makes topics easier to read, while keeping less important text — like sidebar links — more minimal and less distracting. Testing and sharing your feedback You can check out Horizon on Meta using the theme switcher in the bottom of your sidebar: As you test here on Meta or in your own community, you may run into issues with the visual design or incompatibilities with certain theme components or customizations. When that happens, please let us know. Your feedback will help us improve Horizon so that we can begin making it available more broadly. Please note that we may not address all feedback that we receive at this time. That doesn’t mean your feedback is invalid or invaluable — it just means we want to continue to test a certain idea or design decision to better understand how it serves the needs of our target users. Known issues / work in progress areas Here are a few areas where we’re actively working: Improving the topic timeline design. Right now it’s a little wide, we’d like to make it more subtle so it takes up less visual space and demands less attention. Identifying areas where layouts and styles aren’t applying correctly. The invite screens are one area where there are minor visual discrepancies. We’ve made a lot of these fixes already, but please keep letting us know as you find areas where things don’t look quite right. Touching up color palettes to ensure accessibility. Horizon has a more streamlined color system (and has inspired some new color palettes, e.g. Lily, Clover, Royal, Marigold, etc.). We’re working on making sure Horizon is accessible and has the proper contrast in light and dark modes. 3 posts - 3 participants Read full topic
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Join the Discourse Customer Success Team, Wednesday, April 9, 2025 5:00 PM UTC, and learn how to gain support for your community initiative—whether from internal stakeholders, team members, or the members themselves. 1:00 PM – 1:45 PM EST — Main Webinar Learn how to create a business case for your community and secure stakeholder support. 1:45 PM – 2:30 PM EST — Open Office Hours (Live Q&A) Stick around for live Q&A with the Discourse team to tackle your biggest community-building questions. Register Here Why do some communities thrive while others struggle? A key factor: community buy-in. Communities succeed when… They have leadership and stakeholder support. Members feel invested and engaged. The business case is clear and compelling. What You’ll Learn: How to build a strong business case for your community. Strategies to secure leadership and stakeholder buy-in. Bonus: Calculate your buy-in score and see where you stand! 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic
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Ever since we introduced the admin sidebar, our long term goal has been to bring a more comprehensive search to the admin interface that helps admins and moderators find exactly what they need without having to dig through many pages and settings manually. This method is so much faster than the old way, and we are excited to see if it helps you navigate the admin interface more efficiently . Finding what you’re looking for You can launch a quick search from anywhere in the admin interface with the shortcut Ctrl+/ , or on macOS, ⌘ +/ . This will bring up a window like this: You will see here that there are several different checked boxes beneath the input. These are the types of things you can search from here: Pages - Every page in the admin interface, including sub-pages not shown in the sidebar, and plugin pages Settings - Every site setting, which includes the setting description and keywords Themes - Every installed theme, whether they are enabled or disabled Components - Every installed theme component, whether they are enabled or disabled Reports - Every admin report, which includes a description of the report You can click these boxes to filter out the various types of search results. Here are some examples of each: Pages Settings Themes Components Reports You can also visit a full page version of the search by pressing Enter when results are being shown, or by clicking “Search” in the admin sidebar, which will take you to /admin/search. Enabling admin search You can turn this feature on with the experimental admin search enabled groups setting, which you can find in the Experimental config page at /admin/config/experimental: Note that when this feature is enabled, the keyboard shortcut for the admin sidebar filter is used for the search instead. Testing and sharing your feedback We are opening up this feature for feedback now, please post in this topic if you have any or if you notice any bugs that need to be fixed. At this time, we won’t be going much deeper into improvements for this search, but we will make it as good as we can in its current state. That being said, there are some known limitations or improvements to be made: There is currently no ranking of search results, they are returned in the same order as the types of results (e.g. Pages, Settings, Themes, Components, Reports) The fuzzyness of searching is pretty basic, but is usually good enough to find what you need if you vaguely know the name When you click on a setting, usually it opens a page and filters the site settings on that page, at some point we want a fancier solution which highlights the part of the page you were looking for 3 posts - 3 participants Read full topic
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Understanding the language of community metrics gives you a leg up when communicating your community’s value to stakeholders. It also helps you identify what’s working, where to improve, and how to make data-driven decisions that strengthen your strategy. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.discourse.org/2025/04/20-community-metrics-explained 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic
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