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Off topic, but do you keep a list of sites using Discourse? I really like the software but have yet to run into it anywhere besides your demo site.

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sort of, http://www.discourse.org/buy has the official 3 early beta partners. Those are solid and mature since they've almost been around a year now!

In the last 3 months we went from 500 Discourse forums to 1500+. (We screen out the obvious test installs with IPs for names, etc.) We're about to take the brakes off as we get to V1.0, I have been reticient to really encourage people to launch new Discourse sites while we are in beta. But it's speeding up as we get closer. Open source FTW!

We don't have a public directory of all Discourse forums -- we do internally, since everyone pings us for versioning, but I have been hesitant about exposing it until we're clear the community is OK with a public directory.

Some already using it in the wild include:

- bbs.boingboing.net - discuss.howtogeek.com - discourse.ubuntu.com - forum.greenheartgames.com - discuss.atom.io

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