Discourse (software)
| Discourse | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc. |
| Initial release | August 26, 2014 |
| Stable release | 3.4.5
/ 9 June 2025 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | Ruby, JavaScript |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Available in | Albanian, Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Telugu, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese |
| Type | |
| License | GNU GPL version 2 (or later) |
| Website | www |
Discourse is an open source Internet forum system released on August 26, 2014. It was founded by Jeff Atwood, Robin Ward, and Sam Saffron.
The client side application is written in EmberJS. The server side is written in Ruby on Rails and backed by a PostgreSQL database and Redis cache. The source code is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2.