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A sizable number of Science and Research communities rely on Discourse for their discussion needs; let’s take a deeper look and figure out why. We’ve spoken to an assortment of customers and self-hosted sites to learn more about their use cases and determine the role of Discourse in the success of these remarkable communities. How…
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Discourse is being widely used in the Science and Academia communities, with organizations like CERN and NeuroBB leveraging its features to support their research and discussion needs. codinghorror highlights the benefits of using Discourse, including its user-friendly interface and ability to scale efficiently.
codinghorror also notes that educational institutions can receive an 85% discount on Discourse’s official hosting plans.
AstonJ suggests a feature to create a category where students can post, but only instructors and staff can view and respond, without allowing students to see each other’s posts. This feature has been requested before but is not currently on the roadmap. AstonJ also proposes a more customizable experience for users, where they can select specific tags to follow and only see topics related to those tags in their latest list.
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Nice to see Discourse used in this field 
This has been suggested many times and has lots of different uses, one of the most universal is for a ‘Contact a Mod’ section, where uses can easily contact a moderator and whichever mod is online at the time can deal with it.
This would be ok if these showed on the ‘latest’ list like normal topics, but ideal a normal category would be best.
I’d love to see a more customisable experience for users too, perhaps more so as a tags based system - where people select which tags they want to follow and only topics from those show in their latest list. This would be useful (perhaps even needed) for the largest of forums.
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Very inspiring thanks
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