Discourse 1.5 released

Version 1.5 of the Discourse open-source discussion-and-commenting system has been released. Significant work went into rewriting the top-level "topics" page, resulting in a five-fold speed increase. Administrators can now change and customize every object label used in the interface. "Want topics to be 'threads'? Users to be 'funkatrons'? Like to be 'brofist'? Well, Discourse is your huckleberry." Support for email comments has also been improved, and user groups can now exchange private messages. The badge system, which is used to denote user roles and to mark popular posts, received a visual refresh and new documentation; user summary pages were also refreshed.