Discourse 1.5 released

Version 1.5 of the Discourse open-source discussion-and-commenting system has beenreleased.Significant work went into rewriting the top-level "topics" page,resulting in a five-fold speed increase. Administrators can nowchange 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 yourhuckleberry." Support for email comments has also been improved, and usergroups can now exchange private messages. The badge system, which isused to denote user roles and to mark popular posts, received avisual refresh and new documentation; user summary pages were also refreshed.