# How Does Team Discourse Use Discourse?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-team-discourse-use-discourse/82176
**Category:** Blog
**Created:** [04.Март.2018 23:23:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-team-discourse-use-discourse/82176 "2018-03-04T23:23:20Z")
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### Author: ![HAWK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hawk/32/86627_2.png) [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [04.Март.2018 23:23:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-team-discourse-use-discourse/82176/1 "2018-03-04T23:23:20Z")

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Originally published at: [How Does Team Discourse Use Discourse?](https://blog.discourse.org/2018/03/how-does-team-discourse-use-discourse/)  
   
As we claim on our website, we use Discourse as our primary team coordination tool to build… Discourse! That means escaping email silos and minimising the number of disparate communication channels required to manage a fully distributed team. We are able to keep distractions like calls and meetings to a minimum and focus on actual…

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### Author: ![8BIT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/8bit/32/76872_2.png) [@8BIT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/8BIT)
#### Post date: [05.Март.2018 03:37:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-team-discourse-use-discourse/82176/2 "2018-03-05T03:37:38Z")

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holy cow. this is awesome. the idea had crossed my mind to use discourse as a full-bodied business communication and project system… but hearing it from you guys really does make it seem doable.

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### Author: ![mikechristopher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mikechristopher/32/89135_2.png) [@mikechristopher](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mikechristopher)
#### Post date: [05.Март.2018 09:51:21 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-team-discourse-use-discourse/82176/3 "2018-03-05T09:51:21Z")

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great insight thanks @HAWK - just shows how flexible it certainly can be if you want it to be!

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### Author: ![oiclid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/oiclid/32/82392_2.png) [@oiclid](https://meta.discourse.org/u/oiclid)
#### Post date: [05.Март.2018 11:23:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-team-discourse-use-discourse/82176/4 "2018-03-05T11:23:13Z")

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So, Discourse is essentially the One Ring. Sauron would be proud. 😁 I love how you guys have figured out a way to get rid of all the distractions by building most of the features you need into one app.

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### Author: ![joebuhlig](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/joebuhlig/32/193054_2.png) [@joebuhlig](https://meta.discourse.org/u/joebuhlig)
#### Post date: [05.Март.2018 23:12:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-team-discourse-use-discourse/82176/5 "2018-03-05T23:12:43Z")

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I was thinking about this just last week! I remembered @HAWK saying she was working on it. Thrilled to see it come to life. 😉 Well, done.

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### Author: ![townsfolk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/townsfolk/32/86552_2.png) [@townsfolk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/townsfolk)
#### Post date: [06.Март.2018 18:48:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-team-discourse-use-discourse/82176/6 "2018-03-06T18:48:22Z")

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This is awesome. Thank you very much!

I have a follow up question regarding task management.

Are you tracking commits with tasks for those that have code changes through discourse? Something similar to the way Jira w/ BitBucket or Github works?

I found a couple of plugins and topics that are related:

> [@Introducing GitHub Issues to Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-github-issues-to-discourse/46671):
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> warning This tool is no longer maintained. Check out [Discourse Code Review](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-code-review/103142) instead. The Discourse Team and I are pleased to announce our Import GitHub Issues into Discourse tool. The idea behind it is fairly simple, authenticate with GitHub, select the issues you wish to import, and then provide your Discourse credentials and let it do the rest (as shown in the screenshots below)! Authenticate with GitHub Select a Repository Select the Issues you want to Import

- Seems nice if you are/were using Github issues and want to mirror them in Discourse and use Discourse to further the conversation, but not if you don’t want to use Github issues.

[https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-github-linkback-plugin/66081](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-github-linkback-plugin/66081)

- Looks for mentions in Discourse and then adds links to GH messages.

I realize that this can be done easily by manually pasting a Github/BitBucket commit into Discourse, but I’m curious if there’s something automatic.

Thank you again for the great post!

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### Author: ![HAWK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hawk/32/86627_2.png) [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [06.Март.2018 19:23:01 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-team-discourse-use-discourse/82176/9 "2018-03-06T19:23:01Z")

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Hey Eric,  
We use Github Linkback but we don’t have anything automated.

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### Author: ![Bas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bas/32/294929_2.png) [@Bas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bas)
#### Post date: [08.Март.2018 10:10:34 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-team-discourse-use-discourse/82176/10 "2018-03-08T10:10:34Z")

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Very cool! 🙂  
Currently in the process of weaning people of from Hipchat in my org. and this is some very valuable input.

One question: why are you running two different instances? Wouldn’t it be possible to merge your internal one with meta and use subforums for everything?

Is it a matter of convenience? Was it set up before the tooling was ready? Don’t you trust the authentication/security model completely?

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### Author: ![HAWK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hawk/32/86627_2.png) [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [08.Март.2018 18:28:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-team-discourse-use-discourse/82176/11 "2018-03-08T18:28:17Z")

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A couple of reasons.

Our internal instance sits on a different server so if Meta goes down we don’t lose all our runbooks etc.  
It also allows us to have very different email and notification settings which means we’re less likely to miss important things in the noise.

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### Author: ![Bas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bas/32/294929_2.png) [@Bas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bas)
#### Post date: [09.Март.2018 09:47:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-team-discourse-use-discourse/82176/12 "2018-03-09T09:47:12Z")

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Fair and logical reasons 🙂

> [@HAWK](#):
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> if Meta goes down we don’t lose all our runbooks etc.

That brings up painful memories 😱 (we once stored our emergency customer contact list on the wiki, in the datacenter, where all the customer were hosted…)

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [09.Март.2018 09:50:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-team-discourse-use-discourse/82176/13 "2018-03-09T09:50:10Z")

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Yeah we do too… but we have a replica in digital ocean and an extensive encrypted backup story

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### Author: ![James\_Houston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@James\_Houston](https://meta.discourse.org/u/James_Houston)
#### Post date: [30.Октябрь.2018 11:00:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-team-discourse-use-discourse/82176/14 "2018-10-30T11:00:58Z")

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the idea had crossed my mind to use discourse as a full-bodied business communication and project system… but hearing it from you guys really does make it seem doable.

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### Author: ![Xavi\_Beumala](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/xavi_beumala/32/244624_2.png) [@Xavi\_Beumala](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Xavi_Beumala)
#### Post date: [09.Февраль.2022 05:50:28 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-team-discourse-use-discourse/82176/15 "2022-02-09T05:50:28Z")

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У нас есть экземпляр Discourse, который мы используем внутренне как центр для команд. Мы хотим открыть некоторые аспекты для публики, а другие — для клиентов.

Я прочитал статью [Как Team Discourse использует Discourse](https://blog.discourse.org/2018/03/how-does-team-discourse-use-discourse/) и задаюсь вопросом: почему вы используете два отдельных экземпляра — публичный и внутренний?

Мы планируем использовать один уникальный экземпляр и ограничивать видимость через группы пользователей. Первоначальные преимущества такого подхода для нас — централизация и возможность построения графа ссылок… Но после прочтения статьи было бы очень интересно, если бы кто-то мог поделиться плюсами и минусами использования двух экземпляров и рассказать, как это работает у Team Discourse?

Большое спасибо!

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### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [09.Февраль.2022 07:03:01 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-team-discourse-use-discourse/82176/16 "2022-02-09T07:03:01Z")

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Вы не единственный, у кого возник этот вопрос

> [@Bas](#):
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> Один вопрос: почему вы запускаете два разных экземпляра?

> [@How Does Team Discourse Use Discourse?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-team-discourse-use-discourse/82176/11?u=moin):
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> A couple of reasons. Our internal instance sits on a different server so if Meta goes down we don’t lose all our runbooks etc. It also allows us to have very different email and notification settings which means we’re less likely to miss important things in the noise.

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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [09.Февраль.2022 13:31:19 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-team-discourse-use-discourse/82176/17 "2022-02-09T13:31:19Z")

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Ещё одна причина — использование собственного продукта в сценарии с несколькими экземплярами, так как у нас есть клиенты, которые размещают у нас десятки инстансов.

Мы реализовали специальную интеграцию (oneboxing) между экземплярами Discourse, что позволяет получать централизованные уведомления через Web Push, Email и Discourse Hub, а также открывать несколько инстансов рядом друг с другом на мобильных устройствах с помощью PWA и т. д.

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### Author: ![justin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/justin/32/157614_2.png) [@justin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/justin)
#### Post date: [14.Февраль.2022 17:27:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-team-discourse-use-discourse/82176/18 "2022-02-14T17:27:49Z")

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> [@Xavi\_Beumala](#):
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> Но после прочтения статьи было бы очень интересно, если бы кто-то мог поделиться плюсами и минусами использования двух отдельных инстансов и как это работает для команды Discourse?

Самая большая проблема при использовании одного инстанса для рабочей среды: вы можете очень легко случайно опубликовать что-то публично, что должно быть приватным. Для этого достаточно выбрать неправильную категорию или задать неверные права доступа для новой категории.

Вот краткий итог текущей ситуации:

1. Отлично! Это позволило нам получать поддержку и реальную обратную связь от всех, кто использует Discourse _на самом Discourse_, без описанных выше рисков.
2. Наш внутренний инстанс стал вдохновением для [Discourse for Teams](https://teams.discourse.com). У компаний есть большой потенциал использовать такой инструмент, как Discourse, для создания внутренней сообщества.
3. В обоих сообществах наблюдается высокая активность, поэтому мы постоянно ищем способы обеспечить связь с обоими по мере роста нашей команды и Meta.

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### Author: ![Richie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/richie/32/115110_2.png) [@Richie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Richie)
#### Post date: [14.Февраль.2022 20:43:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-team-discourse-use-discourse/82176/19 "2022-02-14T20:43:30Z")

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Увлекательное чтение, спасибо, что поделились (не уверен, как я пропустил это раньше).

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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
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### Author: ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
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