For those that don’t know, our Discuss Community is powered by Discourse, and was just upgraded to version 3.0! 
One of the new features in this release, User Status, has just been turned on. What follows is the info from their release notes about it:
Share your current status with the community
The new User Status feature allows users to set a custom status emoji and message that is displayed across the app. Once set, the message will be shown next to your avatar on posts, in chat, and on your user card so you can let everyone know you’re 
in deep focus mode, 
on vacation , or 
how you’re currently feeling.
So feel free to try it out!