







News about about the next-generation open source Discourse forum software.
The Universal Rules of Civilized Discourse
With Discourse, it was clear that we needed to totally reboot the software to create next-generation forum software. But code is only part of the story. Any reasonable attempt at delivering a Civilized Discourse Construction Kit has to provide a safe, simple default set of guidelines for civilized discourse.

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.

Open Sourcing Scientific Research with Lab Discourse Graphs
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.
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?

Cooperative Technologists Community Discourse Forum
The CoTech community Discourse forum is a UK based open discussion board for issues relating to co-operatives and technology.


Lexicon Community
Future home of the community known as <a href="https://discourse.lexicon.community">https://discourse.lexicon.community</a>

Home – The Discourse.
The Discourse provides community-powered journalism in Cowichan Valley, Nanaimo and Comox Valley. We are here to listen to you and respond with in-depth news about the issues you care about.

Metagov x Future of Science Seminar - Discourse Graphs with Matt Akamatsu
StackExchange Founder Vows to Reinvent Online Discourse
Jeff Atwood wants to improve the entire internet. That's always been his goal a better place. He started by co-founding StackOverflow, a question-and-answer site for software developers that revolutionized the way they learn online, and eventually, this evolved into StackExchange, a network of Q&A sites spanning myriad topics. Now, Atwood has renewed his crusade with Discourse, an open source application for building online message boards that he hopes will become as ubiquitous as WordPress.

Discourse Graphs and the Future of Science | Protocol Labs Research
Interview between Tom Kalil, Chief Innovation Officer of Schmidt Futures, Dr. Evan Miyazono, Research Team Lead at Protocol Labs, and Dr. Matt Akamatsu, Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Washington.

Discourse Graphs
@discoursegraphs.bsky.social
Discourse Graphs are an information model that enables everyone to map their ideas and arguments in a modular, composable graph format. discoursegraphs.com