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24 alternatives to Discourse – Wikipedia for Sensitive Topics
We just launched our open beta of Discourse and would love feedback. We’re a group of professionals from across technology & journalism who all have a shared experience working with sensitive topics and misinformation online. We built Discourse as a way to fill a gap we continued to see in our day jobs: a trustworthy and simple way to understand challenging topics. Discourse is unique in that it (a) combines multiple viewpoints into one place and (b) allows for Wiki-style crowd suggestions. While other sources try to be 'fair and balanced' off the bat, our belief is that it takes time,…
Discourse is a platform for exploring sensitive and complex topics by gathering multiple viewpoints in one place. Built by professionals from technology and journalism, it allows users to understand challenging… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Discourse – Wikipedia for Sensitive Topics launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Discourse▲287A platform for community discussion. Free, open and simple.
2015 · discourse.org · its alternatives →
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Discourse 2.0▲291Civilized discussion for your community, redesigned ✨
2018 · blog.discourse.org · its alternatives →
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Discourse▲43New open source discussion platform from Jeff Atwood.
2014 · discourse.org · its alternatives →
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Chat is here! Enable conversations in your community to flow between faster-paced chat and slower-paced discussions.
2022 · blog.discourse.org · its alternatives →
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A publication dedicated to full transparency in fact-checking. Every source document is available with annotations to guide the reader, and every fact-checking conversation is out in the open.
2019 · sourcedfact.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · wit.ai · its alternatives →
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I'm Seth, creator of discourse.fm, a browser-based tool/platform to create live audio chat rooms. I just launched an extension of the site - https://hackernews.discourse.fm/ - which pulls stories in real-time from the HN site using the public API, and enables anyone to join a live audio discussion about the story (think Clubhouse rooms autogenerated for HN stories). Once you enter a room, you can grab the link generated for a room and paste it back to the comments on the HN story to invite more participants. hackernews.discourse.fm is both a full-fledged product and a…
2021 · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I’m Shaun, and I started the Narratives Project (https://www.narrativesproject.com/), a non-profit that presents divisive news events as contrasting narratives to show why people disagree. Our goal is to lower people’s distress about the news and animosity towards those they disagree with. Our current news media system incites instead of informs. On-the-ground reporting has been replaced by armchair journalism, most people are locked in viewpoint silos that are occasionally penetrated by the worst of the other side, and the entire system is in an escalating panic about…
2022 · its alternatives →
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2017 · hashtags.chat · its alternatives →
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Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Nim - nim-lang/nimforum
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Browse Discourse communities from around the Internet.
2017 · its alternatives →
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2014 · saysaw.org · its alternatives →
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Today's internet is filled with dopamine wells of content. I wanted to steer away from that and foster meaningful writing. So I made a site where you can only have a single post. The intention is to encourage thoughtful posts like the blogs we all love here at HN (Paul Graham's, fasterthanlime, Bartosz Ciechanowski's, etc). For now posts are only markdown, but I intend to make some markdown extensions to make posts more dynamic.
2022 · app.pressnt.net · its alternatives →
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2011 · barkles.com · its alternatives →
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Jeremy Rossmann, Founder of Make School
2016 · podcasts.apple.com · its alternatives →
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