Re:Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord
by dncornholio on Thursday September 16, 2021 @07:59AM
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Excuse me? $100/month and it's a nice alternative? Guess I was expecting something open source so was a bit flabbergasted.
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Re:Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord
by input_sh on Thursday September 16, 2021 @08:03AM
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It is open sourced, that pricing is for them to manage an install for you. From the about page:
> We offer official Discourse hosting, or install Discourse yourself in the cloud in under 30 minutes.
> Discourse is 100% free open source forum software, now and forever.
Re:Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord
by dncornholio on Thursday September 16, 2021 @08:06AM
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I see, makes sense now. Did not find any mention of it while scanning the site though. Seemed like it was a paid service only.
Re:Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord
by hanklazard on Thursday September 16, 2021 @08:46AM
(#28551010)
I host one for my wife on a 5$ DigOcean droplet. It was a pretty easy install and updates have also been easy. I’d recommend it if you need this kind of solution.
Re:Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord
by maccolgan on Thursday September 16, 2021 @10:54AM
(#28552604)
Yeah I wonder whether they'd go SSPL if AWS started offering hosted Discourse.
Re:Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord
by innocenat on Thursday September 16, 2021 @08:04AM
(#28550623)
Discourse is open source: https://github.com/discourse/discourse
The plans shown on the pricing page are managed plan. You can install it on your server without problem.