Discourse

discourse.org

Discourse declares 6 subprocessors in its subprocessor list, which we last checked on Nov 11, 2026 (evidence). They include Google Cloud, Amazon and Equinix. No published changes since we first read it on Sep 22, 2026. 13 tracked vendors name Discourse as a subprocessor, including Vercel, nylas and Fly.io.

Subprocessors CSV · Atom DORA draft CSV what's this? · 

6 third parties.

NamePurposeLocationListed since
Amazon
for enterprise forums hosted on AWS:; for forums hosted in any of our data centers:; provides cloud servers and services for hosting and backup; distributes content, like images and website files, so that users can download them quickly from servers close to where they are; stores site backups and user-uploaded files; stores and distributes content, like images and website files, so that users can download them quickly from servers close to where they are
Apple for users of the DiscourseHub iOS app:; sends push notifications
Automattic for forums using our anti-spam plugin:; identifies spam forum posts; provides user avatars for forum members
Equinix colocates servers hosting forums; for forums hosted in our Seattle, Toronto, and Dublin data centers:
Google for users of the DiscourseHub Android app:; sends push notifications
KeyCDN hosts impersonal generic avatars (e.g. the letter "A" on a red background) and common emoji, so that users can download them quickly from servers close to where they are

Web TechnologiesCSV · Atom

Discourse's homepage made 96 requests to 13 domains, and 3 services controlled by another company.

Analytics (1): Google CloudMarketing automation (1): HubSpotOther (1): reviewed as Development: GitHub

3 third parties by category: Analytics 1Marketing automation 1Other 1

Third parties 3 · 21 requests
HubSpot HubSpot 15% of the page's requests 14
Google Cloudsubprocessor Google Analytics Google Tag Manager 6% of the page's requests 6
GitHub github.com 1% of the page's requests 1
First party 1 · 75 requests
Discourse Amazon CloudFront Amazon S3 Amazon Web Services GSAP 3.14.2 HSTS HTTP/3 HubSpot Cookie Policy Banner Jekyll 4.4.1 Lucide Open Graph Plausible Priority Hints Ruby 78% of the page's requests 75

2 tracked companies loaded by the homepage are not in Discourse's subprocessor list. A website can use a service without it processing customer data.

Subprocessor of (13)CSV · Atom

13 companies
  • Anaconda anaconda.com Optional third-party hosted forum platform
  • AWeber aweber.com Customer Forums; Discourse Privacy and Security
  • Builder.io builder.io
  • C3 AI c3.ai Customer Service & Support
  • Expo expo.dev Customer support (read-only / data connection suspended since November 2023)
  • Fly.io fly.io Customer support communication
  • Hugging Face huggingface.co Forum
  • nylas nylas.com Forum Hosting
  • replit replit.com
  • Scale AI scale.com Messaging and Support
  • Seqera seqera.io Applies to: All customers (business operations) Hosting of the Seqera community forum.; Community forum
  • Transifex transifex.com Community forum
  • Vercel vercel.com Community support and communication services

Service statusCSV · Atom

Aug 15: no incident reportedAug 16: no incident reportedAug 17: no incident reportedAug 18: no incident reportedAug 19: no incident reportedAug 20: no incident reportedAug 21: no incident reportedAug 22: no incident reportedAug 23: no incident reportedAug 24: no incident reportedAug 25: no incident reportedAug 26: no incident reportedAug 27: no incident reportedAug 28: no incident reportedAug 29: no incident reportedAug 30: no incident reportedAug 31: no incident reportedSep 1: no incident reportedSep 2: no incident reportedSep 3: no incident reportedSep 4: no incident reportedSep 5: no incident reportedSep 6: no incident reportedSep 7: no incident reportedSep 8: no incident reportedSep 9: no incident reportedSep 10: no incident reportedSep 11: no incident reportedSep 12: no incident reportedSep 13: no incident reportedSep 14: no incident reportedSep 15: no incident reportedSep 16: no incident reportedSep 17: no incident reportedSep 18: no incident reportedSep 19: no incident reportedSep 20: no incident reportedSep 21: no incident reportedSep 22: no incident reportedSep 23: no incident reportedSep 24: no incident reportedSep 25: no incident reportedSep 26: no incident reportedSep 27: no incident reportedSep 28: no incident reportedSep 29: no incident reportedSep 30: no incident reportedOct 1: no incident reportedOct 2: no incident reportedOct 3: no incident reportedOct 4: no incident reportedOct 5: no incident reportedOct 6: no incident reportedOct 7: no incident reportedOct 8: no incident reportedOct 9: no incident reportedOct 10: no incident reportedOct 11: no incident reportedOct 12: no incident reportedOct 13: no incident reportedOct 14: no incident reportedOct 15: no incident reportedOct 16: no incident reportedOct 17: no incident reportedOct 18: no incident reportedOct 19: no incident reportedOct 20: no incident reportedOct 21: no incident reportedOct 22: no incident reportedOct 23: no incident reportedOct 24: no incident reportedOct 25: no incident reportedOct 26: no incident reportedOct 27: no incident reportedOct 28: no incident reportedOct 29: no incident reportedOct 30: no incident reportedOct 31: no incident reportedNov 1: no incident reportedNov 2: no incident reportedNov 3: no incident reportedNov 4: no incident reportedNov 5: no incident reportedNov 6: no incident reportedNov 7: no incident reportedNov 8: no incident reportedNov 9: no incident reportedNov 10: no incident reportedNov 11: no incident reportedNov 12: no incident reported

90 days agotoday

  • 0 incidents in 90 days
  • 0 major or critical
BeganIncidentImpactLasted
Hardware failure causing read-onlyno impact stated—

Incidents per month

0 2 4 Jul 2026: 1 incident (1 no impact stated) · partial: our history begins Jul 9 Aug 2026: 0 incidents Sep 2026: 0 incidents Oct 2026: 0 incidents Nov 2026: 0 incidents Jul 2026Aug Sep Oct Nov

critical major minor no impact stated before or partly before our history

As Discourse's status page reports its own incidents (scheduled maintenance left out), read every few hours since (evidence)

Incidents reported by Discourse's subprocessorsCSV · Atom

8 reported incidents in the last 30 days, by 1 of the vendors Discourse lists as a subprocessor.

A subprocessor list names a company, not the service an incident touched. This does not show that Discourse was involved.

DateCompanyIncidentImpactLasted
Automattic"Spacefast API (Spacefast)" is Down major1 min
Automattic"Spacefast API (Spacefast)" is Down major2 min
Automattic"Beeper" is Down major8 min
Automattic"Jetpack API (Jetpack)" is Down major2 min
AutomatticEdge Services Disruption major8 min
AutomatticPHP Critical Security Updates no impact stated14 h 8 min
Automattic"Tumblr Sites (Tumblr)" is Down major25 min
AutomatticWP Cloud - DFW cooling issues minor5 h 19 min

Who is around them.

ChangesCSV · Atom

See the list as we read it on any date: Time machine

None since tracking began.

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