Discourse

Richard Millington nails it: the platform isn’t the community. You can have the best tools, the slickest setup, and all the right features - but if you don’t understand why people want to connect, the whole thing is built on shaky foundations. When you can't solve the people problem, the platform problem is secondary...

“Community manager” makes the work sound like moderation, tickets, rules, and admin. “Community architect” gets much closer. From Paz Pisarski 🏵 and JA Westenberg: a good community has to be designed like a physical space: Are people walking into a library, an aquarium, a conference, or a carnival?

The best community forums make room for WIP, beginner questions, strange edge cases, failed attempts, and working answers. It's where the (most) useful knowledge comes from. More in our May Discover roundup: https://lnkd.in/daNgxZJM

A useful question for community builders: Are you designing for content, or are you designing for connection? Because those are very different jobs. New episode of the Discourse podcast with Paz Pisarski 🏵 and JA Westenberg on community, belonging, trust, and the hidden curriculum behind great communities! https://lnkd.in/dzrUeBeK

Community is easier to build when it solves a painful, urgent problem. Richard Millington explains why “painkiller” communities outperform “vitamin” communities: https://lnkd.in/ddnHA37y

If the agentic future is here, your Discourse community has everything it needs to be ready. If you want to opt out, the options are yours - and we have your back either way. https://lnkd.in/dCeGAWWk

Reddit is pushing mobile users out of the browser and into its app because apps give platforms more control, more data, and more ways to monetise attention. Discourse takes the opposite position. https://lnkd.in/diHKEysM

Are social platforms doomed to be overrun by bots? And is the dead internet theory already inevitable? We don't think so. Discourse CEO Hawk explains why. https://lnkd.in/d97_WUX9

This is the real-world experience of the AI translation feature we shipped in 2025... Exactly what it’s like to use Discourse in another language. https://lnkd.in/d48Keypt

Episode 3 of the Discourse podcast! We're talking to Richard Millington about community, psychology, brand and what it means to bring humans together... https://lnkd.in/ec3cc9Hn