I am just an enthusiast of community programs and do not know how to code. I use community programs mostly for personal and family knowledge bases, and I do not open registration.
I have been playing around with Discuz, vBulletin, and XenForo for about 10 years in total.
The first time I encountered Discourse was in December 2025, and I migrated from XenForo without hesitation. Discourse is fantastic; its cutting-edge innovation, the timely response from the meta community, and the program’s operational stability impressed me the most.
But since using Discourse, I’ve “developed an illness”: I can’t resist wanting to rebuild and upgrade every day
Before I joined the company, I would sometimes spend an inordinate amount of time here on meta, occasionally while standing in line waiting to order coffee.
My partner would look over my shoulder sometimes while I had my phone out and see what I was doing and mutter to me “Discuss the Discourse…” in a hum drum voice to make fun of me.
We do our best to make avoid design the product in ways that avoid encouraging that type of addictive behavior, but it’s still hard sometimes to stop geeking out with the community here.
Glad to have you with us, but remember to take breaks too.
Take a walk, get some fresh air, hang out with people you know and people you don’t know.
The topics, the posts, and the rebuilds will be waiting patiently for you when you’re ready for them.
