Wordpress of forums or google of communities?

Community Building Praise

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The discussion revolves around promoting Discourse as a platform for online communities. cregox believes Discourse is “hugely unique” and has the potential to become the “wordpress of forums” and even the “google of talking.” They express disappointment that despite its capabilities, many are unaware of it or choose to build their own solutions. cregox encourages continued promotion of Discourse and suggests that the platform’s customer content should be more prominently displayed on the front page, as it is currently hard to find.

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Just posted this somewhere:

For 1 year now, whenever I join a forum I like to ask this question: Have you considered using discourse.org ?

Most of the times it is my perception the answer is “no, we didn’t even know / care about it” or, sometimes, “yeah, but we wanted to roll something of our own”, which I find very sad. Discourse is hugely unique in a lot of ways and still so much overlooked. If you wanted to build something, why not on top of it?

It will not only become the wordpress of forums, it will probably become the google of talking. It could even eventually resolve what’s broken about email or messaging, although their small team would never claim this. Okay, maybe I’m overstating it… But it is this awesome! :slight_smile:

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Keep on the evangelisation!! :heart_eyes: So sad realization the new groups isn’t new at all! :frowning:

The customers content should be on front page, IMHO. And it is way too hidden as it is right now. Got some issues finding it last time I’ve forgot the link.