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Last day at Toronto Community Week!

Big thanks to everyone who stopped by to chat about Discourse, platform migrations, and community building. ❤️
Join us next week for Community Scaries, our latest webinar on how to tell when metric drops are just part of your community’s natural rhythm and when they’re a sign to take action.

📆 October 28 at 11am ET

Register now: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
A safe community doesn’t happen by accident.

In our new white paper, Safe by Design, we share practical steps for protecting member privacy and building trust from day one.

Get your free copy here: discourse.org/downloads/sa...
Safe by Design: How to Protect Your Community Members and Their Privacy
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Building great products starts with understanding the people who use them. In our latest blog post, Lindsey Fogle reflects on how her customer-facing experience continues to shape her approach to product management at Discourse.

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Why Customer-Facing Experience Makes Better PMs
As I moved through various support roles, I developed skills that would eventually lead me to my current career as a product manager (though when I started out, I had no idea what product management e...
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Struggling with empty discussion boards or disengaged members?

Our latest blog post covers how to attract people who want to connect and contribute.

Plus, we've included a free worksheet to help you define who you’re building for and how to reach them.

blog.discourse.org/2025/10/comm...
Community Acquisition Channels: Beyond "Build It and They Will Come"
Successful community growth doesn’t happen by accident. You need a deliberate acquisition strategy that goes beyond vanity numbers and focuses on attracting the right people.
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This year, our 2025 Discourse meetup brought us together in Prague 🇨🇿 for a week of connection, a competitive pool tournament, and a look at what’s next for Discourse.

Get the behind-the-scenes look at our annual meetup:

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Behind the Scenes: Our 2025 Prague Meetup
Every year, we bring our fully remote team together for a week-long meetup.  In September 2025, 87 of us gathered in Prague for an unforgettable experience in the only way we know how — chaotic, whole...
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We’ll be at Community Week Toronto 25!

🗓️ October 23–25, come by our booth and say hi 👋 .

Catch our Discourse migration experts Ruben Oussoren and Jennifer Lee as they share how to turn platform migrations into smooth, successful transitions.

Tickets available here : toronto.community-week.com
@davidtaylorhq.bsky.social, Tech Lead for our Developer Experience team here at Discourse, joined @EmberEurope to share how we're pushing the boundaries of Ember to provide an efficient and powerful plugin system for Discourse communities.

🎥 Watch the replay here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Db...
Discourse's Evolving Plugin System | Ember.js Europe | Q2 2025
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We all love to chat, but when we need to learn together in our community or our workplace, it's incredibly valuable to have collective memory.

Here are some ideas to explore when you're ready to build lasting knowledge in your community.

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The end of community memory?
An experience I think a lot of us have these days in our interactions online, whether it be in the workplace, on social media, or even in real life is “We’ve had this conversation before…”
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AI has reshaped how people find information. Search is now summaries with cited sources.

Want your community content to be one of those sources? Our latest blog post has practical tips for improving discoverability.

Get all the details here:
blog.discourse.org/2025/09/how-...
How to Optimize Community Content for AI Discovery
AI has turned search into answers. People ask a question, get one synthesized response, and see a small handful of cited sources. If your community is one of those sources, you win trust, traffic, and...
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If you are looking to create a community that values reflection, builds memory, and turns conversations into lasting knowledge you should check out the latest blog post from our co-CEO, Hawk.

You can read it here:
blog.discourse.org/2025/09/buil...
Building Communities That Think
Social media and instant messaging fundamentally changed how we talk to each other. The paragraph has ceded power to fast moving and ephemeral chat that inevitably leans toward the shallow and reactiv...
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Did you know you can find Discourse communities in many languages? 🌍

Meet Communauté Cayas (communaute.cayas.fr), a French-language personal finance forum where independent investors connect to ask questions and share insights.

Find them and other communities on Discover: discover.discourse.org
What does it take to migrate thousands of conversations, design a seamless experience, and build features tailored to your community?

Our Customer Projects team knows, and Danielle’s new blog post shares their insights from our recent webinar.

Learn more:
blog.discourse.org/2025/08/how-...
How we help enterprise communities do more with Discourse
We know that building community isn’t one-size-fits-all. Every organization has its own voice, values, and vision, and your community platform
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We’re excited to announce our latest release, Discourse 3.5!

Highlights include:
📄 Horizon, our new modern theme
📝 WYSIWYG composer that still supports markdown
🌐 Automatic translations for multilingual communities

Read the full details:
blog.discourse.org/2025/08/unbo...
Unboxing Discourse 3.5
After six months of steady improvements in our beta releases, we’re excited to announce our latest release, Discourse 3.5. This release, we focused on improving both the member and community managemen...
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Do you prefer Light mode or Dark?

Either way, we've made it easier to set your choice!

🛠️ Admins can set per theme Light/Dark palettes and manage them in one place.
😍 Users can choose Light, Dark, or Auto in their preferences.

Learn more:
meta.discourse.org/t/improved-d...
Improved dark and light mode handling 🎨
We’re excited to announce improvements to how Discourse handles dark and light modes! These changes will make it easier for site admins to set their preferred light and dark mode palettes, while simp...
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ICYMI, a replay of our webinar on migrating from Khoros to Discourse is now available!

It includes a full walkthrough of the migration process, real-world examples, and a Q&A with customers who’ve been through it.

🎥 Watch it now:
youtu.be/5rqm3pMzpuE
Making the move from Khoros to Discourse
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Last week we shipped a refresh to the topics filtering UI!

🔍 The Filter link is in the sidebar
⌨️ Filter with any keyword
⚡ Autocomplete for easy filter discovery

We hope this helps make topics quick and easy to find!

Learn more: meta.discourse.org/t/new-topic-...
Demo: youtu.be/bb3OWS4DLtA?...
Discourse Topic Filter Demo
YouTube video by Sam Saffron
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Thanks to everyone who joined today’s webinar on migrating from Khoros to Discourse!

If you couldn’t make it, don’t worry, the replay will be available soon.

A big thank you to Orit Yehezkel and Flavia Sasaki for joining us and sharing your experience and advice!