Features & Capabilities

DiscourseHub is a powerful Chrome extension designed to enhance your experience with Discourse, the open source discussion platform. It seamlessly combines features of mailing lists, forums, and long-form chat rooms. With DiscourseHub, you receive real-time push notifications from officially hosted Discourse forums, making sure you never miss important conversations.

The extension conveniently displays unread and new topic counts right on the app icon, providing at-a-glance updates. It also centralizes all your notifications, unread counts, and new counts in one spot, simplifying forum management. Using Google Chrome as the underlying browser, DiscourseHub allows you to browse Discourse forums without repeatedly logging in, ensuring a smooth and efficient user experience.

Ideal for active forum participants and community managers, DiscourseHub keeps you connected and informed with minimal effort.

User Growth & Download Statistics

By:
Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc.
Downloads:
152,801 363
Rating:
2.52
(418)
0.01
Version:
2.2.0 Last updated: 2026-05-06
Version code:
246
Creation date:
2016-11-09
Publisher country:
US US
Permissions:
  • android.permission.CAMERA Very high risk
  • android.permission.BLUETOOTH Moderate risk
  • com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID Moderate risk
  • android.permission.INTERNET Low risk
  • android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS Low risk
  • android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED Low risk
  • android.permission.WAKE_LOCK Low risk
  • com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE Low risk
  • com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE Low risk
  • android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE Safe
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Size:
42.67MB
Email:
te*****@discourse.org
URLs:
Website ,Privacy policy
Full description:
See detailed description
Source:
Google Play Store
Data ingested on:
2026-06-06
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Contact the developer

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Developed by:
Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc.
Google Play Store
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.discourse
Email:
te*****@discourse.org
Website:
https://discourse.org

User Reviews

DiscourseHub is intended to consolidate notifications and forum access but largely functions by opening forums in a user's web browser rather than providing a native app experience. Users appreciate having a centralized notification place, but many find the lack of a true native interface, unreliable notifications, login difficulties, and app crashes diminish its usefulness. Overall, it feels like a shortcut to web forums rather than a robust app, limiting its appeal.
Pros
  • Provides a centralized place to view notifications from Discourse forums.
  • Manages login credentials to some extent, which can be convenient.
  • Offers some level of notification tracking for forums.
Cons
  • App mostly opens Discourse forums in an external web browser instead of having a native app interface.
  • Notification system is unreliable or lacking true push notifications and badges.
  • Login and authorization processes are problematic, often redirecting to browser and sometimes unresponsive.
  • App crashes and has performance issues under certain conditions.
  • Perceived as redundant since it mainly acts as shortcuts to web forums with minimal added functionality.
Recent reviews
Uninstalling as it won't let me add a community. I have restarted phone, etc and seems this app is pointless having read the comments.
by Al*****, 2026-01-10

Great way to get notifications on phone
by Sp*****, 2025-12-21

This app doesn't have anything or do anything. It's completely useless.
by Im*****, 2025-06-18
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