FOSS Communities: What’s new in Discourse?
summary
Discourse moves to a six month release cadence and ships 3.0 and 3.1 with 3.2 planned for Jan 2024, integrates a native chat so communities stop juggling tools, and reports some sites sending 30,000 messages/week while an internal team of 96 sends ~15,000/week. A modular Discourse AI plugin offers seven selectable modules (semantic related topics, summaries, bot helpers, proofreading), an ActivityPub plugin can publish categories and will soon follow external streams, and the sidebar gains customizable global sections for everyday staff workflows.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:47Open-source model and impact
- 2:29New release cadence
- 3:32Chat integration
- 4:54Unified chat benefits
- 6:41Sidebar customization
- 7:43Discourse AI plugin
- 9:53ActivityPub plugin
- 11:21Summary and 3.2 features
- 12:49Q&A
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