Discourse May 2025 browser support changes, potential workarounds

It has come to my attention that the Discourse team is planning to drop support for some older browsers in an upcoming version. If this would affect your devices, you may already see a warning banner here on this site.

Please let me know if you are affected (either here in this thread or contacting me privately), as I am investigating various ways to work around this to preserve access for as many community members as possible (while still applying security fixes and such). If we were to do nothing and continue upgrading as usual, the affected devices would only have read access to the site through some minimal UI.

It depends on how you define “affects one of your devices”. In a strict technical sense, this is true for me: I have a 2016 iPad that is stuck at iOS 15. But then, I never ever used it for this or any other Discourse forum, because I want a real keyboard to type.

In other words: I don’t particularly care about this change, but if you want someone to test your workaround, I can do that.

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Just verified and Firefox SRE is supported, should be all good here : )
Thanks for the head’s up!

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