Discourse
The customizable, scalable community platform powering over 22,000 communities.

Discourse is a hosted community platform that enables organizations to build discussion forums, support communities, and knowledge bases. It offers features like real-time chat, private messaging, moderation tools, SSO/SAML authentication, and extensive theming and plugin support. It targets both startups and large enterprises, scaling from small communities to millions of users.
Discourse provides a hosted, customizable forum and community platform with built-in chat, moderation tools, SSO integrations, and plugins that organizations can deploy and tailor to their brand.
Tech companies and organizations looking to build and manage online communities
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