# Can we build better forum software?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-build-better-forum-software/615723>\
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**Created:** [March 14, 2012, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-build-better-forum-software/615723 "2012-03-14T06:22:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/codinghorror/32/4242_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-build-better-forum-software/615723/194 "2020-08-09T19:04:44Z")

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I’m just happy that everything worked out! 👏

Whether you win every battle you enter isn’t important (or even possible), what matters is that we continue to improve our little corners of the world as much as we can. I am as shocked and surprised as anyone else that Straight Dope eventually made the transition to Discourse 🤯. I realize Discourse is a big change but my dream is that, being fully and uncompromisingly open source software, not under the thumb of any megacorporation, Discourse can enable this community to survive and thrive for decades to come.

And to be fair Discourse has come a long, _long_ way from when we started in 2013. We continue to evolve, improve, and refine Discourse as we go, and your feedback is essential. Because people having fun, interesting conversations – and maybe learning a thing or two along the way about each other – is the whole point of this exercise. 🎉

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