We build a community platform for civilized discussion on the web — we feel so strongly about it that we even named our company Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc. We started in 2013 with 3 co-founders unusually passionate about online discussion. We’re now a team of 47 and growing fast.

First and foremost we are a hosting company. The product that we host and develop, Discourse, is of course 100% open source software.

We are a completely remote company, working from 18 different countries and 15 different timezones. You’ll never guess how we coordinate our work. Wait, did you just guess Discourse? That’s right, we use Discourse as our primary team coordination tool to build Discourse! Discourse excels at asynchronous, distributed teamwork, so we can keep interruptions like instant messaging, calls, and meetings to a minimum.

Discourse was designed for high resolution touch devices, with a built-in mobile layout. Read or post from your laptop, tablet, and phone in your browser of choice, or our Discourse iOS app and Discourse Android app.

As members become trusted regulars over time, they earn abilities to help maintain their community.

Let the community suppress spam and dangerous content, and amicably resolve disputes.

Built in Akismet spam protection and heuristics including new user sandboxing, user flag blocking, and standard nofollow.

Easily add common social logins like Google, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Discord, and GitHub.

Use the Summarize button to condense long topics to just the most interesting and popular posts.

Encourage positive community behaviors through the included set of badges, or add your own custom badges.

Access a searchable list of standard emoji. Choose from four different emoji sets, or define your own custom emoji.

When you aren’t active on the website, your notifications will be automatically sent to you via email. Reply via email from anywhere, on any device.

Enhance your account security with the free Android or iOS authenticator apps.

Your most relevant and essential community health metrics are only a click away.

Add chat integration, topic voting, Google Adsense, and more with our officially supported plugins.

Anything you see on screen, you can also do via an API call. Discourse is a JavaScript app that talks to our Discourse API.

Incorporate Discourse into your site with complete confidence – the code belongs to everyone.

Automatic notification of new versions in the dashboard, with a one-click web upgrade process.