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What forum software out there deserves more credit than it gets? Why do you feel this way?

What has been your worst hosting experience? What did you learn from it?

I know HTML and CSS but I want to learn another software. I want to eventually know how to code a forum or blog platform. What language would you recommend for this?

What is your favorite type of content to create on forums? Why is this your favorite?

To improve the clarity of how they are used, we’ve renamed “Staff Notices” to “Official Notices”. This change acknowledges that both staff members and TL4 users can create these useful notices. Additionally, notices now display the author’s name and link to their profile, providing more transparency about who posted them. This authorship information is only visible to staff: This update makes it clearer who can create notices while maintaining their official nature and improving attribution. The update was committed and merged in this pull request: github.com/discourse/discourse FEATURE: Add attrib…

There are certain things you can do to generate traffic and convert them to users. Content is the driving factor that got the users to your community. Now that they are there you want them to register and stay. Creating engaging forum content is a way your keep users coming back and involves several strategies. Here are some effective ways to generate content for a forum: Discussion Threads: Start or participate in discussions on trending topics relevant to your forum's niche. Ask open-ended questions to encourage responses. Informative Posts: Share tutorials, how-to guides, or informative artic…

I go back and forth on this. On a couple of my sites I have chat enabled. The chat works well on those sites and compliments the forum well. The sites I use chat software on are an off topic forum and a computer help forum. I have used it on other sites and on those the chat took over. Everyone went to posting in the chat instead of the fourm. What's your thoughts?

We just released a feature that lets you define usage quotas for Discourse AI Hopefully, this helps you all experiment more widely with AI features, given that you can restrict the actual cost you will end up incurring. Read more at: Configuring LLM Usage Quotas in Discourse AI Site Management This guide explains how to configure and manage usage quotas for Large Language Models (LLMs) in Discourse AI. Required user level: Administrator Summary LLM Usage Quotas allow administrators to control and monitor AI resource consumption by setting limits on token usage and interactions for different user groups. This helps maintain cost effi…

When is a forum community not a community? Let us know what you think would cause a forum to turn into something else besides a community. Is it bad if it transforms to something different?

Welcome to Current Projects, a monthly newsletter about what we’re currently working on at Discourse. Your questions and feedback are welcome! Kicking off Admin config pages for site appearance We’re just about to shift from design to development on some of the improvements we’ve been designing in areas related to site appearance to make it easier for admins to configure the look and feel of their sites. Our current plans include adding support for dark mode and light mode into individual color palettes, having each theme own its own color palette, and update pages for choosing and configuring themes and components. We’re also working on a new branding page focused on a…

I have several xenforo licenses for sale. Most have 6+ months of support and upgrades left. Most have 1 or more of the official addons included. Here is what I have and prices. Expires September 29Th 2025. Enhanced Search included. Purchased new $265. Price $185. Expires September 8TH 2025. Forum only. Purchased new $195. Price $125. Expires August 24TH 2025. Gallery, Resource Manager and Enhanced Search included. Purchased new $395. Price $285. Expires August 23RD 2025. Resource Manager included. Purchased new $265. Price $180. Expires August 16TH 2025. Enhanced Search included. Purchased new $255. Price $175. Expires July 6TH 2…

I moved this site along with most of the other sites to a new VM. The new VM is running Ubuntu 24.04. I've had Windows Server for over 20 years so this is a big change for me. While I originally had my sites on Redhat many years ago moving back is very different. It is slowly coming back to me. Installing the necessary software at the command line was different for sure. There was some trial and error. I did get everything working fairly fast. Things don't seem much different except for the paths. In any case we are now on Linux. If you experience any bugs please let me know. I am still configuring things and fixing permission issues as they come up.

We’ve added a new administrative feature that allows staff to bulk select and delete multiple user accounts directly from the admin users list. We saw communities undergo large spam waves, so we implemented this feature to make handling those spam waves easier. This feature works in a very similar fashion to bulk actions in topic lists. We’ve published a dedicated document that explains how to use it: Bulk-delete multiple users as a staff user Site Management Discourse offers the ability to delete multiple users directly from the admin users list. This feature is useful in situations where unwanted user accounts are created, such as during a …

I'd like to wish everyone a very healthy and Happy New Year.

We recently launched a new feature for Helper called Smart dates, which helps you turn any text related to time and date into Discourse-friendly timezone-supported dates. Give it a try and let us know what you think! 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic

Do you keep a close eye on the content being posted on competing forums? If yes, how has it helped you? If no, why not?

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you. Here's to the new year being filled with new members and lots of posts on your communities.

Hey all Hulk here. This is a very interesting looking forum I love the way the forum list has been done. I look forward to enjoying my time here.

What would I need to do today to get a forum started? I am thinking about getting back in the forum world. What would I need to do to get a forum started and bring in users? Are post exchanges still good way to bring in users? What about board wars? Those worked very well in the past. Help me out. I'm ready to start again.

I want to upgrade my server, the issue is I need a hosting with ddos protection option I run a gaming community and people are dicks Current host just suspends the service when a ddos attack happens. some one recommended me about server about VPB.com, dose anyone hear about it? any suggestions? Thanks in advance!