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## Vision
We think of Discourse as a **Civilized Discourse Construction Kit**, an 100% open-source discussion platform that acts as a flexible, fundamental building block of most online communities of any size, from tiny to huge. Discourse is always free for everyone to use and contribute to – forever. Discourse is:
We think of Discourse as a **Civilized Discourse Construction Kit**, an open-source discussion platform that acts as a free, flexible, fundamental building block for online communities of any size, tiny to huge.
Discourse is:
- A **flattened, endlessly scrolling discussion**, which avoids the awkwardness of traditionally threaded and paginated discussion, while still allowing replies to be expanded in place for context.
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- A **contemporary, robust technology stack**, free of legacy PHP and MySQL constraints.
We wish to **foster an active community of contributors**, all of whom commit to free, simple, pleasant to use online discussion software that can thrive in an Internet age dominated by micro-blogging and diminishing attention spans. Civilized online discussion belongs to everyone, not just huge corporate websites.
Our goal is to **foster an active community of contributors**, all of whom commit to free, simple, pleasant to use online discussion software that can thrive in an Internet age dominated by micro-blogging and diminishing attention spans. Internet discussion belongs to everyone, not just huge corporate websites.
Discourse is built for the *next* 10 years of the Internet, so our requirements are high: