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Discourse TotalCtrl Community

If you use Discourse, you'll love TotalCtrl.

Give your community a place of its own.

Discourse means hosting and maintaining a forum yourself. TotalCtrl's Community is a hosted forum that's already connected to your help center, support queue, and member records — no server to babysit.

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Community, included in every plan

Member Spaces
Organize your community into topic-focused spaces. Control who can access each space.
Groups
Sub-communities with their own admins. Public, private (join by request), or fully hidden — a chapter or cohort can run itself without touching the rest of your community.
Events
Event pages with RSVP, capacity and a waitlist that fills itself when someone cancels, reminders, and check-in — community-wide or scoped to a single Group.
Discussion Threads
Members post questions, ideas, and updates. Thread-based discussions keep conversations organized.
Member Connections
Members connect with each other and message privately once a connection is accepted — a private introduction, not a public thread.
Reactions & Engagement
Likes, reactions, and replies. Surface the most popular content automatically.
Invite Management
Send invite links, approve members, and manage access. You control who's in your community.
Moderation Tools
Pin important posts, remove content, and manage member permissions. Keep the space healthy.
CRM Sync
New community members are automatically created or matched as contacts in the CRM. Their community activity sits alongside everything else you already know about them.

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Why switch

It's not just a Discourse replacement

One subscription, 30+ apps
Stop stitching together a dozen point tools. Community is one of 30+ apps you get on every plan — no add-ons, no per-seat surprises.
Your data, actually connected
Everything shares one dataset, so work flows automatically — a won deal opens a project, logged hours become an invoice, a ticket pulls from your help center.
AI woven throughout
Drafting, summarizing, and search powered by AI across every app — not a bolt-on you pay extra for.

Also replaces: Circle

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