Releases.discourse.org feedback & suggestions

mcdanlj
Fri, 27 Mar 2026 02:00:04 +0000
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v2026.3.0-latest.1 has 33 security fixes, is already 6 days old

With the new release system, we are trying to reduce duplication of information/work as much as possible, so that’s why we’ve centralised on releases.discourse.org

There is no obvious notification system there. I don’t even see an RSS button.

The chips there are sure not as helpful for understanding the big picture as the previous pattern of posting what you consider to be the highlights of a release.

The new-format content-free release announcements are no longer posts worth linking to to highlight exciting new features in Discourse. They will function as notifications to those of use who use watching emails as our primary trigger to update, but no longer present a realistic option for us to post socially about “look at the cool new stuff in Discourse this month”. The releases site does not give that view. It’s just a little sugar sprinkled on git log.

I understand it’s an optimization for how you spend your time. But it’s not obvious to me how the releases site was seen as a functional replacement for the utility of the announcements. And I’m not going to try to guess what’s interesting from reading through a bunch of commit messages formatted on chips that are basically git log except taking five times as much vertical space, making them harder to read. So I will probably be sadly unaware of what’s actually interesting in upcoming Discourse releases.

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