The place for all Discourse announcements.

Documentation for how to use Discourse, install and configure sites, and troubleshoot common issues. Includes topics for tutorials, how-tos, general reference and troubleshooting. Topics in this category may only be created by trust level 2 and up.

The category for general support questions on using your Discourse site.

For queries specifically about SSO (single sign-on) and login using third-party providers (Google, Facebook, GitHub etc). See the official documentation on DiscourseConnect SSO.

A bug report means something is broken, preventing normal/typical use of Discourse. Do be sure to search prior to submitting bugs. Include repro steps, and only describe one bug per topic please.

Discussion about the user interface of Discourse and how features are presented (including language and UI elements).

Discussion about existing Discourse features, how they can be improved or enhanced, and how proposed new features could work.

This is the category for everything related to Discourse data and reporting. Here, you can discuss dashboard reports, custom badge queries, data-explorer queries and any other analytic add-ons.

A great platform doesn’t guarantee success. Community building is a science. This category is for discussions about launching, building, growing and managing a thriving community.

The category for all things Discourse Development. Building a customization for yourself or the community? Then this is the category for you!

This is your hub for all Discourse-related commerce: jobs, gigs, plugins, themes, hosting, and more.

A directory of Discourse plugins, both official and third-party.

Themes are expansive customizations that change multiple elements of the style of your forum design, and often also include additional front-end features.

Theme components are customizations that change surface elements of your forum design, or add extra front-end features.

Getting Discourse up and running, keeping it going, upgrading, and any other general sysadmin maintenance.

You want to migrate your community to Discourse? Awesome! This is the category where you can ask questions, get help, and document your Discourse migration journey.

Topics about hosting Discourse, either on your own servers, in the cloud, or with specific hosting services.

Outlining each official release of Discourse, and plans for future releases.

Discussion about meta.discourse.org itself - the organization of this forum, how it works, and how we can improve this site.

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Create topics here that don’t fit into any other existing category.