The Universal Rules of Civilized Discourse

The Discourse Encouragement Fund

News about about the next-generation open source Discourse forum software.

Hacker, Hack Thyself

We’ve read so many sad stories about communities that were fatally compromised or destroyed due to security exploits. We took that lesson to heart when we founded the Discourse project; we endeavor to build open source software that is secure and safe for communities by default, even if there

Toward Automated Discourse Network Analysis

Discourse Network Analysis has long been capped by the price of expert judgment. Here is a design for automating it at corpus scale without surrendering command of meaning — and FineStructure, the open-source workbench I am building for it.

Building a Discourse Community

Sure, anyone can set up their very own Discourse in 30 minutes or less. But how do you get people to go there?

Discourse is Not Going Closed Source

Cal.com just closed their source code, arguing AI has made open source too dangerous. After 13 years of building Discourse in public, we're staying open. Here's why.

Maite Taboada

Maite Taboada. Professor. Department of Linguistics, Simon Fraser University. Research: discourse analysis, computational linguistics

Getting started - Docs

Discourse Graphs are a tool and ecosystem for collaborative knowledge synthesis, enabling researchers to map ideas and arguments in a modular, composable graph format.

Discourse Graphs

A tool and ecosystem for collaborative knowledge synthesis