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date = "2017-01-17T20:36:00-05:00"
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title = "We're Moving to Discourse!"
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author = "flamesage"
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coauthor = "bunnei"
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forum = 54
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As we approach the first birthday of Citra's website, we'd like to announce yet another project infrastructure update:
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**We've decided to launch a [new forum](http://community.citra-emu.org/) based on the
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[Discourse](https://www.discourse.org/) forum software!**
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When we first introduced the new website back in February of 2016, we chose to use [Flarum](http://flarum.org/) over
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more classic forums used on other websites (such as phpBB, MyBB, or vBulletin). The reason for this was because Flarum
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was a much more modern platform, with better mobile support, and a attractive and innovative UI. It seemingly had a
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very promising future, receiving multiple large updates in a very short timeframe. But while it was great to use at
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first, it ultimately left us wanting some critical features that never seemed to come - such as the ability to send
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private messages.
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Meet [Discourse](https://www.discourse.org/), an open source forum platform with the features that we need. Not only
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does it improve our ability to moderate, but the every day user experience should also be enhanced. Discourse is a
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widely used and established platform, used by such communities as [Imgur](https://community.imgur.com/),
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[Twitter](https://twittercommunity.com/), [Github](https://discuss.atom.io/), [Ubuntu](http://discourse.ubuntu.com/),
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and [more](https://www.discourse.org/faq/customers/). The layout of the new forums are simple, users of Flarum should
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have no problem getting used to it!
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You can visit the new forums at https://community.citra-emu.org/, come say Hello! You'll need to create a new account,
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but we now support using your Google or GitHub credentials to log in!
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