Jeff Atwood - Discourse (Page 3)

Welcome Régis Hanol to the Discourse team

The Discourse Team has always been intentionally small. We did have plans to add a team member sometime after the public launch. But we wanted just the right person, someone brave enough to take on the risk of a project as broadly ambitious as Discourse, someone willing to prove to

design

Custom Local Avatars

One of the most requested features in the last few months is easily custom avatars. Although Discourse has always supported standard Internet-wide Gravatars based on the account email address, there were some long-standing concerns: * Some people simply don't like Gravatar, for whatever reason, though as a WordPress company

partners

Our Second Partner: Boing Boing

It's been a little over a month since we launched our second partner, Boing Boing [http://boingboing.net/2013/06/27/can-we-talk.html]. [http://boingboing.net/2013/06/27/can-we-talk.html]Boing Boing has a long history of experimenting with comment and discussion systems. The Web Archives has

design

Improved Image Handling

Although Discourse is open source discussion software designed around the fundamental concept of paragraphs, there is no denying that in this era of pervasive broadband, online discussions are as much about images and videos now as they are about words. With Discourse, we wanted to make it as easy to

culture

Forums Are Dead, Long Live Forums

Here's my ForumCon [http://www.forumcon.com/] 2013 keynote, Forums Are Dead, Long Live Forums [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k02ev0qzP4] -- you'll have to juxtapose the video with the slides manually, unfortunately, but here they are side by side. Update March 2022: Unfortunately the

install

Discourse on Ubuntu: Video Walkthrough

> Update: These instructions are deprecated. The only officially supported installs are Docker based. Please refer to our official install guide! [https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md] Ubuntu Server [http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server] is our preferred Linux distribution at Discourse. They're also

culture

Your Online Clubhouse

I've gotten in the habit of explaining Discourse to people as a clubhouse. A place on the Internet that belongs exclusively to you and your friends -- whether you have 10 friends or a few hundred thousand. There's a big difference between a Facebook Group and

hardware

The Discourse Servers

When we moved to our new datacenter, I didn't elaborate on exactly what sort of hardware we have in the rack. But now I will. There are 13 servers here now, all variously numbered Tie Fighters -- derived from our internal code name for the project while it

partners

Our First Partner: How-To Geek

If you click the "Buy" link on Discourse, you'll find out that you can't … yet. Our immediate plan is to find three great partners willing to live on the bleeding beta edge and run forums with us, so that we can be confident we&

culture

Forums, As Seen On TV

This brief clip from the season 7 finale of the television show 30 Rock skewers stereotypically snarky Internet forum culture. Any recs for the best place to buy a girl's bike [on the upper west side of New York City]? (She's 8) I'm sorry,

swag

Discourse T-Shirts and Stickers

Would you like a Discourse t-shirt? [https://cottonbureau.com/products/discourse]With, perhaps, a free set of Discourse stickers included? [https://cottonbureau.com/products/discourse]Of course you would! Our friends at United Pixel Workers (now Cotton Bureau) put together a very high quality Discourse t-shirt and sticker package for

culture

The Importance of Meta on Forums

If I learned anything at Stack Overflow, it is the importance of meta to any healthy community [http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/02/listen-to-your-community-but-dont-let-them-tell-you-what-to-do.html] . Meta is the one dedicated area every single forum needs, no matter its size, no matter how obscure it is, regardless how many posts

hardware

The Discourse Datacenter

We're in the process of migrating to a new datacenter at he.net so that we can offer world class hosting to our three launch partners. Here are a few pictures of the co-located server rack that will be the new home of Discourse. This enormous hallway at

updates

Localizing Discourse

Discourse was always intended to be a discussion platform supporting every human language. We launched one month ago supporting only English, but since we used the default Ruby on Rails i18n gem, Discourse can be (relatively) easily translated into the language of your choice. As of last week, you can

updates

Updating Discourse

It's been a little over two weeks since we launched Discourse. Our current plan is what I call swabbing the deck, spending the next month or so polishing and finalizing the features we shipped, fixing any urgent problems or bugs that are blocking folks. Just the absolute minimum

design

The Discourse Logo: A System Of Rainbows

A great logo distills everything about your company and its mission into one succinct image. Getting the logo right sets the tone for everything else you'll do. That's why one of the first design elements we tried to nail down on Discourse was our logo. But

people

The Discourse Team

Discourse wouldn't be what it is without the crack team we assembled. It's kind of amazing how this plan came together, but any plan is only as good as the people working on it. I'm Jeff Atwood. You may know me as the programmer