Platform Name Discourse. Description Discourse is the 100% open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet. It works as a mailing list, a discussion forum and a long-form chat room.
Computer-mediated discourse (CMD) encompasses all kinds of interpersonal communication carried out on the Internet, e.g., by email, instant messaging, web discussion boards, and chat channels (Herring, 2001, 2004).
Is discourse any good?
Discourse is a simple yet great software for ANY sized online communities. I like the fact that it is easy to navigate, great design, simple layout and is FAST. This software definitely promotes productive online discussions.
Is discourse free to use?
If you are not familiar with Discourse, it is a completely free and open source application for online discussions.
What is discourse GitHub?
GitHub - discourse/discourse: A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
What is a discourse server?
Discourse is an open source forum-based platform. Similar to other forum platforms, Discourse is great for public conversations that are indexed by Google.
How can I host a Discourse for free?
- Prerequisites. I'm going to assume you know how to ssh into a server and you have a an ssh key.
- Start an Oracle compute instance.
- Get a domain from Freenom.
- Set up a mail server on Mailjet.
- SSH into your server and install Discourse.
- Using Discourse for comments on a Jekyll blog.