FOSS Communities: What's new in Discourse?

This post accompanies my talk at IndiaFOSS 3.0. 28 October ’23

1-3: What & Who is Discourse?

Discourse – an online home for your community

• discourse.org/about

• discourse.org/team

5: Discourse @ IndiaFOSS

From memory:

• forum.internetfreedom.in

• discuss.frappe.io

• tradingqna.com

• https://discourse.julialang.org

6: New (& improved) release cadence 

• https://blog.discourse.org/2023/01/discourse-3-0-is-here (Jan ’23)

• https://blog.discourse.org/2023/08/discourse-3-1-is-here (Aug ’23)

• https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-version-3-2/278584 (in-progress)

8-12: Chat – a missing piece?

Blog post: https://blog.discourse.org/2022/08/discourse-chat-is-now-available-try-it-out-today

Documentation at https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-chat/230881

13-14: Customize your navigation menu to find your way quickly

Documented at https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-sidebar-sections-being-tested-on-meta/255303.

15-21: Discourse AI

Discourse AI Plugin documentation: https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai/259214

Launch blog post: https://blog.discourse.org/2023/04/introducing-discourse-ai/

AI bot launch: https://blog.discourse.org/2023/10/introducing-ai-bot/

Module-wise documentation:

• https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-how-to-enable-ai-bot-in-discourse/266012

• https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-composer-ai-helper/259741

• https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-toxicity/259215

• https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-sentiment/259599

• https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-nsfw/259600

• https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-embeddings/259603

• https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-summarization/262711

Guide to self-host Discourse AI: https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-self-hosted-guide/259598

22-23: Community plugin for ActivityPub

https://meta.discourse.org/t/activitypub-plugin/266794

25: What’s next?

https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-version-3-2/278584

23: See you on Discourse!

• https://twitter.com/rishabhnambiar

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/rishabh-nambiar-a2a381112/

If you’re interested in setting up a Discourse or tinkering on an existing one, happy to help :)