# Discourse showcase
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-showcase/137331
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [December 29, 2019, 10:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-showcase/137331 "2019-12-29T22:24:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@absi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/absi)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2019, 10:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-showcase/137331/1 "2019-12-29T22:24:21Z")
Is there a showcase somewhere of communities using discourse?
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2019, 10:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-showcase/137331/2 "2019-12-29T22:25:38Z")
There is [Discourse customers | Discourse - Civilized Discussion](https://discourse.org/customers)
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### Author:  [@absi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/absi)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2019, 10:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-showcase/137331/3 "2019-12-29T22:39:12Z")
Nice! Just what I was looking for 🙂
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### Author:  [@greenmeanie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/greenmeanie)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2020, 5:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-showcase/137331/4 "2020-02-14T17:13:29Z")
So if you install your software yourself like @ [http://treasureterrain.com/](http://treasureterrain.com/)
you can’t be on that list in the LINK?
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2020, 9:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-showcase/137331/5 "2020-02-14T21:30:54Z")
Generally not no, I don’t think anyone maintains a public directory of Discourse sites.
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### Author:  [@Remah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Remah)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2020, 11:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-showcase/137331/6 "2020-02-14T23:39:01Z")
There was a topic where hundreds of Discourse sites were posted but it was deleted a few years ago.
It was my favorite topic because of the interesting sites I could see. The topic definitely required curation because attrition was a serious problem which might be why codinghorror removed it. Many sites only operated until their initial Digital Ocean credit expired.
Now we occasionally see some topics like this:
> [@Forum for medical students - a wordpress and discourse site (praise and showcase)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-for-medical-students-a-wordpress-and-discourse-site-praise-and-showcase/132482):
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> I have been running a forum for medical students in [Denmark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark) since 2001 - as a non-commercial and sparetime project. The last 10+ years I have been a medical doctor - but I still want to have a place for medical students and comming students - where they can debate. I have been all the way around starting with [phpBB2](https://www.phpbb.com/), later phpBB3 for a short periode of time. Then I went to Joomla with Kunena as the forum. In november 2017 I [merged](https://meta.discourse.org/t/howto-install-discouse-vultr-and-import-from-kunena3/74269) to Discourse. I have been a happy user ever since. The new sit…
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### Author:  [@ChristopherMcEwan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ChristopherMcEwan)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2020, 1:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-showcase/137331/7 "2020-03-12T01:33:16Z")
> [@Falco](#):
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> Discourse customers | Discourse - Civilized Discussion
Any thoughts on this? [BuiltWith Trends](https://trends.builtwith.com/websitelist/Discourse). “Download a list of all 16,773 Current Discourse Customers” Is that likely to be accurate? Big difference from the " 1,500+ customers and counting" nominated at [Discourse customers | Discourse - Civilized Discussion](https://www.discourse.org/customers)
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2020, 1:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-showcase/137331/8 "2020-03-12T01:47:54Z")
Discourse is open source, many people self host. We love that.
A core mission of Discourse is increasing general adoption and making sure everyone has a chance to run a their own forum.
Our showcase focuses on our customers, they are people that pay us a monthly hosting fee.
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### Author:  [@Remah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Remah)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2020, 3:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-showcase/137331/9 "2020-03-12T03:31:54Z")
I’m interested in this because Discourse is commonly underrated in usage and market-share statistics that I’ve seen.
> [@ChristopherMcEwan](#):
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> “Download a list of all 16,773 Current Discourse Customers” Is that likely to be accurate?
Describing all websites using Discourse as “customers” is not accurate as it is only an assumption by [builtwith.com](http://builtwith.com). “Clients” or “users” would be better terms because they allow for both non-financial and remote relationships.
The numbers at [builtwith.com](http://builtwith.com) could be confirmed because they list them all if you’re prepared to pay for them:
16,773 live + 10,895 past = 27,668 historical websites
16,773 live + 72,108 redirects = 88,881 current URLs
This appears to be a more complete list than sites like [similartech.com](http://similartech.com) (9,303), [wappalyzer.com](http://wappalyzer.com) (3,700) and [whatcms.com](http://whatcms.com) (1,354). But all of them only count public-facing instances so the many private intranet and home server instances won’t be counted by any of them.
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### Author:  [@dandv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dandv)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2024, 8:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-showcase/137331/10 "2024-11-26T20:05:28Z")
Another large community, somehow not in the top ones at [discourse.org/customers](https://discourse.org/customers), is the [Brave browser forum](https://community.brave.com/about), with over 150k members. Not sure how Solana was selected with only [1140 members](https://forum.solana.com/about). Maybe Brave is self-hosted?
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2024, 8:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-showcase/137331/11 "2024-11-26T20:45:56Z")
I see the brave community in that list
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### Author:  [@traceymoko](https://meta.discourse.org/u/traceymoko)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2024, 9:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-showcase/137331/12 "2024-11-27T09:10:42Z")
To answer the original question, there is also now Discourse Discover, which is a showcase of Discourse forums
> **[Discourse Discover](https://discover.discourse.com/)**
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> Discover your next favourite Discourse community.
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### Author:  [@dandv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dandv)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2024, 12:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-showcase/137331/13 "2024-11-29T12:23:57Z")
Brave was hidden under some sort of infinite scroll. I see it now.
I don’t see [Ask LibreOffice](https://ask.libreoffice.org/about) in [Discourse Discover](https://discover.discourse.org/).
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2024, 12:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-showcase/137331/14 "2024-11-29T12:36:54Z")
Maybe the admins didn’t enable the setting to include their forum in Discourse Discover.
> [@Including your site in Discourse Discover](https://meta.discourse.org/t/including-your-site-in-discourse-discover/314909):
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> bookmark This guide explains how to opt-in your Discourse community to be included in Discourse Discover, a new initiative to make Discourse communities more discoverable. person_raising_hand Required user level: Administrator What is Discourse Discover? [Discourse Discover](https://discover.discourse.org) is a standalone site that makes it easy for anyone to find communities that use Discourse as their platform. It serves as a showcase of unique communities within the Discourse ecosystem, increasing your community’s vi…