What You Can Find and Share on the NGINX Community Forum

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The NGINX Community Forum (community.nginx.org) is a Discourse-based gathering place for "all things NGINX." You can read official NGINX team announcements, browse or share NGINX-related demos, projects, and modules in the Community Showcase, find upcoming NGINX events, and discuss NGINX and related technologies in General Discussion. It suits anyone who wants community knowledge, project examples, or a place to ask general NGINX questions; it is not a formal support portal or a sales channel.

Main Categories and What They Hold

The forum's home page lists these categories:

Category What it contains Best for
Announcements News from the NGINX team Keeping up with official updates
Projects Subcategories for NGINX ingress-nginx, Migration Help, NGINX Ingress Controller, NGINX Gateway Fabric, NGINX Commercial Products, and Other Projects Project-specific questions and migration topics
Community Community Showcase and Events Sharing or discovering NGINX-related content, demos, projects, and modules; finding upcoming NGINX-related events
General Discussion Topics about NGINX and related technologies that don't fit neatly elsewhere Open technical discussion
Site Experience Feedback about the forum itself Reporting forum usability issues
Uncategorized Posts not yet placed in a category Temporary holding area

The page also shows topic counts next to some categories (for example, Announcements shows 43 topics and General Discussion 53), which gives a rough sense of activity volume.

What You Can Share

  • Showcase material: The Community Showcase explicitly invites NGINX-related content, demos, projects, and modules. If you built something with NGINX, this is the intended place to post it.
  • Event information: The Events category is where NGINX-related events are listed, so you can add or find happenings there.
  • Questions and discussion: General Discussion is described as the place for topics about NGINX and related technologies that don't fit other categories.
  • Project-specific posts: If your question concerns ingress-nginx, the Ingress Controller, Gateway Fabric, migration, or commercial products, use the matching Projects subcategory rather than General Discussion.
  • Forum feedback: Comments about the forum itself belong in Site Experience.

What to Expect Before Posting

  • It is a community space, not a guaranteed support desk. The description frames it as "a gathering place," and the page does not state response-time or support commitments.
  • Categorize deliberately. Because there is an Uncategorized section and several project subcategories, choosing the closest category improves the chance your post reaches the right readers.
  • Check the guidelines first. The footer links to Guidelines, Terms of Service, and Privacy Policy; reading the guidelines before your first post is the practical way to avoid moderation issues.
  • JavaScript is required. The page notes it is "best viewed with JavaScript enabled," so plan to use a browser with JavaScript active.

A Practical Way to Start

  1. Open community.nginx.org and scan the category list on the home page.
  2. If you want to share work, go to Community > Community Showcase; if you want to ask a technical question, pick General Discussion or the relevant Projects subcategory.
  3. Read the Guidelines link in the footer, then create your post in the chosen category.
  4. To verify your post landed correctly, return to the category page and confirm the topic appears there rather than in Uncategorized.

A common snag is posting a product-specific question in General Discussion when a Projects subcategory exists; moving it to the specific subcategory is the fix.