Discourse AI

Discourse AI adds community assistants, search and moderation to a Discourse forum you can host on your own server. It's for forum operators who want AI features inside their community site. Forum hosting and AI processing are separate choices: the plugin supports a choice of providers, and its AI API services have a self-hosting option.

The community bot searches forum discussions and beyond to answer questions, with personas for different kinds of assistance. Semantic search finds relevant topics without requiring an exact keyword match. Related-topic recommendations use the meaning of a discussion to suggest what members might read next.

Members can summarize topics and chat channels to catch up on conversations. Writing help includes explanations, proofreading, translation, content generation and captions. Operators can enable features independently rather than adopting the whole set.

For moderation, the plugin detects spam and works with Discourse Automation to classify posts and topics. Rules can tag, hide or flag content, including toxic posts and NSFW material. The same integration can generate periodic forum summaries. Sentiment and emotional scores let operators review community posts over time.

The plugin comes bundled with Discourse, a free, open-source platform under GPL-2.0. Official Discourse hosting is also available. Provider support varies by feature, so hosting the forum yourself doesn't determine where every AI request goes.