# Discourse for Maker Communities
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-for-maker-communities/52392
**Category:** Blog
**Created:** [November 2, 2016, 7:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-for-maker-communities/52392 "2016-11-02T19:38:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2016, 7:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-for-maker-communities/52392/1 "2016-11-02T19:38:42Z")
Originally published at: [Discourse for Maker Communities](https://blog.discourse.org/2016/11/discourse-for-maker-communities/)
There is a thing called the “maker movement” and, well, it’s awesome. People are setting up shop in their basements, backyards or dedicated makerspaces to create things together. Makers openly exchanging their ideas and designs with one another in the pursuit of better solutions to problems that need solving. That problem can be anything from…
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### Author:  [@TyIsI](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TyIsI)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2016, 8:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-for-maker-communities/52392/2 "2016-11-02T20:08:03Z")
The Vancouver Hackspace in Vancouver, BC, Canada also uses Discourse at [https://talk.vanhack.ca/](https://talk.vanhack.ca/). At first primarily as a replacement for the mailing lists, but now everyone is settling into using “Talk” quite nicely. We also have integration from our announcements/events category into Slack.
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### Author:  [@ryantm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ryantm)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2016, 4:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-for-maker-communities/52392/3 "2016-11-06T16:36:13Z")
[Pololu Robotics and Electronics](https://forum.pololu.com/) is also happily using Discourse. We switched from phpBB and have been quite happy with the change! We wrote about [the upgrade experience](https://www.pololu.com/blog/590/the-pololu-forum-now-uses-discourse) on our blog.
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### Author:  [@sunjam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sunjam)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2020, 5:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-for-maker-communities/52392/4 "2020-12-17T17:19:40Z")
[Noisebridge Hackerspace](https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Noisebridge) in San Francisco uses Discourse at [https://discuss.noisebridge.info](https://discuss.noisebridge.info)