# Discourse for Developer Communities

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-for-developer-communities/62185
**Category:** Blog
**Created:** [May 5, 2017, 5:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-for-developer-communities/62185 "2017-05-05T17:25:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2017, 5:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-for-developer-communities/62185/1 "2017-05-05T17:25:25Z")

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Originally published at: [Discourse for Developer Communities](https://blog.discourse.org/2017/05/discourse-for-developer-communities/)  
   
Most early adopters of Discourse were developer communities, as is often the case with open source projects. Our own [meta.discourse.org](http://meta.discourse.org) community is also a development-centric community, so we’ve been mindful of this use case since practically Day 0. Consequently, Discourse caters to a lot of developer communities. We reached out to 30 of them to…

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### Author: ![DeanMarkTaylor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/deanmarktaylor/32/102462_2.png) [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2017, 5:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-for-developer-communities/62185/2 "2017-05-05T17:32:09Z")

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I love that you are active in really seeking feedback from real customers and making that feedback open in this way!

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### Author: ![elijah](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/elijah/32/104055_2.png) [@elijah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elijah)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2017, 8:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-for-developer-communities/62185/3 "2017-05-05T20:16:31Z")

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![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/d/f/dfe60567848fcbec3ce4b14319492caf8dd7f3e5.png)

Not exactly an easy to read response format.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2017, 8:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-for-developer-communities/62185/4 "2017-05-05T20:25:37Z")

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Good point, I darken-iz-ized-eded the text color for `div.highlight` to `#666648`.