Discourse (software)

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Discourse is an open source Internet forum software application founded in 2013 by Jeff Atwood, Robin Ward, and Sam Saffron.[1] Discourse received funding from First Round Capital and Greylock.[2]

From a usability perspective, Discourse breaks with existing forum software by including features recently popularized by large social networks, such as infinite scrolling, live updates, expanding links, and drag and drop attachments.[3] However, the stated goals of the project are social rather than technical, to improve online discussion quality through improved forum software.

The application is written in JavaScript and Ruby on Rails,[4] and is released under the GNU General Public License version 2.

References

  1. ↑ "StackExchange Founder Vows to Reinvent Online Discourse". Wired. 2013-02-06. 
  2. ↑ "Stack Exchange Co-Founder Jeff Atwood Launches Forums Startup Discourse". TechCrunch. 2013-02-05. 
  3. ↑ "Discourse - A new type of forum". ITworld. 2013-04-19. 
  4. ↑ http://www.discourse.org/faq/#tech

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