# Thanks to discourse
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/thanks-to-discourse/72512
**Category:** Praise
**Created:** [October 21, 2017, 2:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/thanks-to-discourse/72512 "2017-10-21T02:17:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Noah751](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Noah751)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2017, 2:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/thanks-to-discourse/72512/1 "2017-10-21T02:17:09Z")
Discourse is my all top favorite forum, why because of the discourse team, without all their contributions and dedication to expanding the forum, I would of never gotten this far without them, I started off new and unfamiliar with the software, now I’m slowly learning on how to create one on my own in a local environment, I would like to thank everyone on the discourse team for getting me to where I am now. By looking up basic topics on how to change settings, wiki, etc, to more difficult like email, installing discourse, etc. again thanks. if any co-founder would take a second of their time to answer a few questions, (optional) it would be greatly appreciated 🙂
What made you want to create a open source platform like discourse?
Did you think creating a open source community would benefit you to expand and make lots of money, because maintaining a large forum, writing code, etc is alot of work
Do you feel proud in creating a large expanding community of large users and helping them out?
What type of equipment did you first use to write the code? Who wrote the first code?
How many users (customers) have you gained from the year 2015 to now! Did that help you gain interest in developing more in your product.
I noticed @codinghorror used to previously maintain stack overflow, what made you want to move over to discourse more? Did that benefit you?
Thank you for your cooperation 🙂
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2017, 2:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/thanks-to-discourse/72512/2 "2017-10-21T02:34:48Z")
Seen this?
> **[Civilized Discourse Construction Kit](https://blog.codinghorror.com/civilized-discourse-construction-kit/)**
>
> Occasionally, startups will ask me for advice. That’s a shame, because I am a terrible person to ask for advice. The conversation usually goes something like this:
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> We’d love to get your expert advice on our thing.
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> I probably don’t use your thing....
> The goal of the company we formed, Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc., is exactly that – to raise the standard of civilized discourse on the Internet through seeding it with better discussion software:
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### Author:  [@xrav3nz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/xrav3nz)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2017, 2:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/thanks-to-discourse/72512/3 "2017-10-21T02:36:05Z")
Not here to steal the show from the Discourse team, but I did a bit of “researching” and reading when I was first getting into Discourse. Here are some that might be relevant to your questions. 😉
[Civilized Discourse Construction Kit](https://blog.codinghorror.com/civilized-discourse-construction-kit/) .
[The Discourse Team](https://blog.discourse.org/2013/02/the-discourse-team/) .
[https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/discourse](https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/discourse) .
EDIT: forced all the links to be mini oneboxes, since Jeff’s blog doesn’t actually onebox…
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2017, 2:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/thanks-to-discourse/72512/4 "2017-10-21T02:55:13Z")
I can’t take much credit because I’m pretty new to the team, but thanks for your words. It’s appreciated.
And yes, we’re proud.
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### Author:  [@Noah751](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Noah751)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2017, 3:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/thanks-to-discourse/72512/5 "2017-10-21T03:01:22Z")
I’m glad that your proud, discourse is a step up to what I used to use ( myBB, SMF) and its been wonderful. 😉
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### Author:  [@aaronburr](https://meta.discourse.org/u/aaronburr)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2017, 5:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/thanks-to-discourse/72512/6 "2017-10-21T05:03:19Z")
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone could help me figure out what website host, and what website them discourse uses. I would like the create a website similar to discourse, but I don’t know what they use.
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2017, 5:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/thanks-to-discourse/72512/7 "2017-10-21T05:21:46Z")
> [@aaronburr](#):
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> figure out what website host
This is from 2013 so the Imperial fleet must have more craft by now.
> **[The Discourse Servers](https://blog.discourse.org/2013/04/the-discourse-servers/)**
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> When we moved to our new datacenter, I didn’t elaborate on exactly what sort of hardware we have in the rack. But now I will.
> [@aaronburr](#):
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> create a website similar to discourse, but I don’t know what they use.
This site runs Discourse,