# What is this "You need Discourse Socks"

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-this-you-need-discourse-socks/117750
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** advertising
**Created:** [15 mei 2019 om 01:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-this-you-need-discourse-socks/117750 "2019-05-15T01:02:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![xiasummer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/xiasummer/32/82790_2.png) [@xiasummer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/xiasummer)
#### Post date: [15 mei 2019 om 01:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-this-you-need-discourse-socks/117750/1 "2019-05-15T01:02:55Z")

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![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/4/9/497618b7d51fbd8957be2cc016e978982369cdc6.png)

Seems to be a plugin that supports ads. Seems to be quite neat.

> discourse socks get our merch at cotton bureau.

I’m wondering how you achieved this? Should we use this ad plugin as a default?

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### Author: ![schleifer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/schleifer/32/86416_2.png) [@schleifer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schleifer)
#### Post date: [15 mei 2019 om 01:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-this-you-need-discourse-socks/117750/2 "2019-05-15T01:13:07Z")

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That is the official ads plugin. There are many posts in this category about it: #plugin:advertising

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse-adplugin](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-adplugin)

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [15 mei 2019 om 01:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-this-you-need-discourse-socks/117750/3 "2019-05-15T01:48:10Z")

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Yes we are [dogfooding](https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-ultimate-dogfooding-story/) the plugin.

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### Author: ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [15 mei 2019 om 02:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-this-you-need-discourse-socks/117750/4 "2019-05-15T02:38:50Z")

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I’ve been telling any friends who ask that the team has hit hard times, and is relying on their strong sock game to stay afloat 🤣

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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)
#### Post date: [22 september 2022 om 17:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-this-you-need-discourse-socks/117750/6 "2022-09-22T17:32:47Z")

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