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Stack Exchange Co-Founder Jeff Atwood Launches Free Platform For Discussion Boards & Forums

www.makeuseof.com on 02/07/2013

Excerpt: A long-felt need to reboot the way discussion boards and forums are hosted has prompted Jeff Atwood to launch Discourse. Discourse is a next-generation, 100% open source and free discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet. The new startup, Civilized Discourse Construction Kit Inc. was founded by Jeff Atwood to do for discussion board platforms what WordPress did for blogging. Discussion forums have remained relatively staid through the years and innovations have been rare.... read the full post.
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