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Amrith

Discourse 2.0 - Civilized discussion for your community, redesigned ✨

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Discourse 2.0 is a major update to the 100% open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet.

What's new:

📊 A fully redesigned admin dashboard

🔍 Improved advanced search

🔒 Two Factor Authentication

🇪🇺 GDPR Enhancements

and more!

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Ryan Hoover
LOL at the "GDPR Enhancements" in the feature list. 😊
Mattias P Johansson
@rrhoover Why? GDPR results in a number of features directly beneficial to end users.
Arpit Choudhury
Really cool. But what are your thoughts on companies abandoning their forums to move to a Facebook Group? I have seen this happen a lot, of late.
Mattias P Johansson
@irhymeth What exactly are you basing this on?
Arpit Choudhury
@mpjme For example, Chatfuel moved to a group from their forum which I believe (not 100% sure) ran on discourse.
Mattias P Johansson
@irhymeth So when you say "companies", that you've seen "happen a lot", you actually refer to one company? :) Here is the story of one that went the opposite route: https://blog.discourse.org/2017/... My friend moved his synth forum off Facebook groups to Discourse: https://www.simplysynth.com/login Discourse is a popular platform for private forums for creators that run Patreon pages (and Patreon is growing a lot).
Arpit Choudhury
@mpjme We at Integromat have also made the move and I know many companies that are setting up Facebook or Slack groups. I never questioned the use cases of a forum, they are awesome. But they don't seem to work very well for SaaS products. It's very hard to keep engagement high and people have to wait a while to get answers. Facebook groups on the other hand are always in the moment and I've experienced this both as a user and as an admin.
Matthew Boogaard
@mpjme @irhymeth I don't see why you would want to hand over control to Facebook. Especially given Facebook have control of all data and users and a tendency to make changes to functionality without consulting. I guess it depends on your use case.
Amrith
Hunter
Congrats on the launch @codinghorror @eviltrout 😸 Is it too early to ask what you guys have in mind for 3.0? 🤔
Erlend Sogge Heggen
@amrith we don't really do large sweeping releases. There wasn't actually anything different about this release compared to 1.9, 1.8 etc. we just decided to bump it to 2.0 instead of doing 1.10, same as WordPress, our spirit animal ;)
Erin Billy
Been watching Discourse since the beginning. Great growth and adoption. Anyone have comments on moving from an old-school forum (vBulletin, PHPBB, Invision, etc.) to the new breed of forum software coming out, such as Discourse, Flarum, Mightybell, etc.?
Primer
Love Discourse. I’ll be implementing this soon.
Kevin van Zonneveld
Congrats, I love Discourse! I'm still hoping for a disqus-like comment widget. I'm already using Discourse for comments on our oss blogs (like https://uppy.io/blog/2018/06/0.25/) because I like us to own our own data, no ads/datamining, and see comments as a good onramp for deeper community forum discussion. That said, currently you have to click and navigate away to leave a comment, and we saw interaction drop by >90% after switching to that from Disqus. I'm okay-ish to pay that price for said benefits, but it still hurts :) If we could just have a text area instead of that "Start Discussion" link, I think life would be perfect.