# Why We Love Discourse

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-we-love-discourse/179588
**Category:** Praise
**Created:** [February 13, 2021, 5:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-we-love-discourse/179588 "2021-02-13T17:08:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![dadberg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dadberg/32/208954_2.png) [@dadberg](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dadberg)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2021, 5:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-we-love-discourse/179588/1 "2021-02-13T17:08:25Z")

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@codinghorror @sam @eviltrout

Well, some people may think that I’m over emphasizing, but I trust that I’m pretty accurate, Jeff Atwood, Sam Saffron, and Robin Ward have literally allowed a highly premium, and “enterprisey” software to be in hands of everyone for free - as in freedom - not just that, also sophisticated, fancy, and amazing plugins/themes that would cost $$$ or even $$$$ if you decided to hire someone to craft for you.

Think about Wordpress, if you needed to achieve something simple like s3 backup, well, go and buy that random plugin for $199 subscription.

No amount of money, no bunch of words will be sufficient to give these guys their actual credit, just wanted to say thanks a billion times for allowing Discourse to exist. ❤

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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: [February 13, 2021, 5:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-we-love-discourse/179588/2 "2021-02-13T17:53:40Z")

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Thanks! You would also want to credit all 3 of the founders, including @eviltrout 😉

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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: [February 13, 2021, 8:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-we-love-discourse/179588/3 "2021-02-13T20:26:52Z")

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I appreciate it, but this is very much a team effort. I feel incredibly lucky to work with so many talented people at Discourse, with an amazing community and great customers. You all have made Discourse what it is today, thank you.

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### Author: ![Desray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/desray/32/197950_2.png) [@Desray](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Desray)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 1:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-we-love-discourse/179588/4 "2021-02-14T01:00:51Z")

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Yes agreed. The more I use Discourse, the more I love it. Many of my visitors also think likewise. Thanks for the hard work for those involved in this project. Kudos!

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### Author: ![cosdesign](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cosdesign/32/208585_2.png) [@cosdesign](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cosdesign)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 11:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-we-love-discourse/179588/5 "2021-02-14T11:48:26Z")

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I always loved the idea of having my own community website and I tried many platforms so far, but honestly, none of them are so modern and have so many useful features out of the box. That WordPress-Discourse plugin is also a big + for me as well as the badge system 😍  
So thank you Discourse team for creating such an awesome product!