# How Discourse Uses Discourse

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-discourse-uses-discourse/387597
**Category:** Blog
**Created:** [November 4, 2025, 7:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-discourse-uses-discourse/387597 "2025-11-04T19:03:34Z")
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### Author: ![jlc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jlc/32/251717_2.png) [@jlc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jlc)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2025, 1:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-discourse-uses-discourse/387597/2 "2025-11-21T13:51:41Z")

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In case it’s useful as a reference, in 2018 @HAWK published [an earlier article on the same subject](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-team-discourse-use-discourse/82176). I find both of these articles very inspiring!

I have a few little questions about differences between what you each emphasized. Are you all still using [the Discourse Assign plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-assign/58044) to manage task assignments? Do you still use topic timers to help manage topic status once tasks are complete? Are you still using [Discourse as a private email support portal](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-as-a-private-email-support-portal/34444)? If you’ve moved away from these strategies, would you be willing to sketch your reasoning?

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