Powered by Discourse link now enabled by default

[rishabh]

We believe that having more Discourse sites in the wild is a positive for end-users, for the ecosystem around Discourse, and for the internet as a whole. To that end, we’ve been working on initiatives like Discourse Discover and the Powered by Discourse badge.

In the latest version of Discourse, this ‘Powered by Discourse’ badge will be enabled by default, and will link users to the discourse.org/about landing page.

This page aims to provide useful info for forum users, promote the open-source project (including Meta), and give pointers to hosting services provided by discourse.org and our partners.

Forum admins are free to disable this ‘Powered by Discourse’ badge at any time by disabling the ‘enable powered by discourse’ site setting.

[hellekin]

I"m curious, did you change the default because you observed early-adopters toggling the “powered by Discourse” button or some other concern?

[Firepup650 (Firepup Sixfifty)]

I believe it would be because of the discussion in, ex, this topic:

"Powered by Discourse" should be on by default

At the bottom of https://meta.discourse.org/my/preferences/ we observe “Powered by Discourse”. But that’s not the default for new installations. How about have the default for it to be “on”, and if some site feels bad about it, then they can turn it “off”. Just like when we buy a box of powdered porridge, we feel more comfortable with food labels on the box, even in a country that doesn’t require them.

[Thomas_Rother (Thommie Rother)]

Is there a localized version of the

What is Discourse?

If not, how can we help to get a localized version for DE, FR, ES and other languages …